Mike Dougherty's Blog

Grace Potter coming back to the Natural State

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals are coming back to Arkansas.

The five-member blues and rock band from Vermont, fronted by amazing vocalist Grace Potter, appeared at Fort Smith’s Riverfront Blues Festival in late June. The act, named one of the best new bands of 2010 by Rolling Stone magazine, returns to Judge Parker’s territory with a date at Neumeier’s Rib Room and Beer Garden on Garrison Avenue on Friday, Oct. 8.

Potter has appeared as a vocalist with the “Tonight Show” band a couple of times this summer on Jay Leno’s latest incarnation of his late-night TV program and the band appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in the spring.

GPN’s self-titled June album has been getting a lot of press with good reviews. They opened their set on the sweltering evening of June 25 at the blues festival with “Hot Summer Nights” from that CD and sizzled from that point.

The weather for the October appearance should be much more agreeable.