The Hot Club of Cowtown is an Austin, Texas-based trio that specializes in western cowboy swing music mixed with the pre-World War II European "Gypsy jazz" of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. Tonight the band appears at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. with the soul and roots mini orchestra Dustbowl Revival to play a unique tribute to The Band on the 50th anniversary of that group's celebrated "Big Pink House" tunes ($49).
If you are in the mood for roots music played very well but in a more downhome and inexpensive setting, may I suggest you drive out to Blue Lake an hour later at 9 p.m. to catch Belles of the Levee at the Logger Bar for free? You certainly can't go wrong there.