For Christmas, I often purchase tickets to a concert for my beloved. Last year, we took in a beautifully intimate performance of holiday music by Kathy Mattea, who was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry this year. I also splurged on tickets for the ageless and masterful blues guitarist Bonnie Raitt. A couple of years ago, we snagged some great seats to Billy Strings, and the audience proved more eclectic and electric than one of Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnics.
This year’s Strings tickets for his April stand in Savannah are pricey but encompass a two-day pass (least expensive I could find: $351/per pass) for the bluegrass-psychedelic rock phenom, whose virtuoso picking skills recall a hazy Grateful Dead concert in Miami some 30-plus years ago. In fact, this year’s slate of upcoming musical performances smacks of nostalgia, particularly for the 1980s and early ’90s.
Music
Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble
8 p.m., Feb. 7, District Live at Plant Riverside, 400 W. River St., Savannah; Tickets are $55, plantriverside.com
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