Grand Stafford Theater

BCS Loud!Fest 2015
2015-05-14 - 2015-05-16 | TX
3 Nights, 3 Stages, 45 Bands, Only $5
LOUD!FEST is May 14 – 16, 2015 @ Revolution and The Grand Stafford Theatre in Downtown Bryan, Texas. 40+ amazing local, regional and national bands over 3 nights and 3 stages! Wristbands are still only $5 and good for all three nights. Mark your calendars and ready your earplugs!
Wristbands are available on site at the door of either venue any day of the festival. As always, they are only $5 and good for all three days and all three stages, so come and go as you like!
For more info, check out bcsloudfest.com .

Software Developers Cartel
2015-05-19 16:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Craft Cocktails will begin at 4:30pm as usual on Tuesdays and continue through the night.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS CARTEL – BRIGHT MINDS FROM CENTRAL TEXAS

The first in a new series of Mini-conferences and meetups about current trends, methods and frameworks in software development – from new advanced hardware devices to a simple app, using an awesome framework to build a web app in no time or hacking an AR Drone in javascript. Developers having fun practicing their craft, and learning new stuff.
Our purpose is to create a space where developers form can come and share their professional and personal experiences with any technology available. By sharing this experience, we hope to create, maintain and grow a community of curious and passionate developers while fostering and promoting best practices in software development and dev frameworks/tools.

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Craft Beer & Cocktail Tuesday
2015-05-19 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-05-26 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-02 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-09 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-16 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-23 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-06-30 16:30 - 22:00, 2015-07-07 16:30 - 22:00 and 3 more dates
CRAFT BEER & COCKTAIL TUESDAY
Join us starting at 4:30pm with drinks served by Cody Schilling!

Lone Star Metal Presents: Close to Cashed, Oceans of Slumber, Inch of Dark, Green As Emerald, Critical Misfire
2015-05-29 21:00
Close to Cashed
Formerly known as Hell’s Conspiracy, we play metal of the southern, thrash, and progressive varieties. We like beer, America, dark haired women, and breakfast foods.
Oceans of Slumber
OCEANS OF SLUMBER are as comfortable drudging their way through doom-laden epic “Coffins Like Kites” as they are playing the caustic, country-tinged black metal of “Primordial,” as well as shifting gears seamlessly into the soaring melodies of the KING CRIMSON inspired “Blackest Cloud” only to return to the sonic brutality that is the title track. Interpretation remains the province of the listener. With the intention of crossing every musical boundary, OCEANS OF SLUMBER creates an undeniable atmosphere of beauty and extremity with its very capable lineup of musicians.
Inch of Dark
Inch of Dark is a four piece hard rock band currently hailing from Austin, TX. Originally formed in early 2010 in Vail CO, Inch of Dark drinks from Rock, Metal and Blues and spits it back in your face with modern hard rock flair. I.O.D.’s mainstream yet uncompromising original sound appeals to both the casual listener and to those with a more advanced ear.
Green as Emerald
Critical Misfire
Rock from Bryan/College Station. Critical Misfire are a product of the 90s era of Rock and wear the badge well.

The Connection with music from Sundance Head
2015-06-02 17:00 - 22:00
THE CONNECTION
Uniting Healthcare Professionals for a Cause
RSVP: theconnectionbcs@gmail.com

Sundance Head

Free First Friday featuring Jay White and the Blues Commander with Jordan York and Court Nance
2015-06-05 20:00 - 23:45
Texas Music Pickers and Grand Stafford Theater present

Jay White and the Blues Commander

Jordan york

Court nance

Max Stalling with Landon McGee
2015-06-12 20:00 - 23:00
Max Stalling

Texas based songwriter, Max Stalling, had no expectation of ever being in the music business. “I didn’t even pick up a guitar until graduate school,” notes Stalling. After attending high school in South Texas, Stalling studied at Texas A&M – College Station, where he earned a masters degree in Food Science. He followed the corporate road from there and eventually landed in Dallas working in product development for Frito-Lay.
During this time, Stalling discovered the Three Teardrops Tavern and Dallas community radio station KNON. These outlets exposed a musical heritage to which Stalling had been nearly oblivious. Inspired by artists like Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, and Jerry Jeff Walker, Stalling started writing songs, recording albums, and eventually touring with a full band to back him. Sixty thousand CDs later, Stalling joined musical greats Kris Kristofferson, Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, Selena, Guy Clark and many others when he received a star on the South Texas Music Walk of Fame in Corpus Christi. Stalling plays about 150 shows a year and is in the third year of a Budweiser sponsorship. His song “Scars and Souvenirs” was used as the title for an episode of Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 and he is featured on the CW Network’s Troubadour, TX television series. He is a former member of the Board of Governors for the Texas Chapter of NARAS and has been lucky enough to share the stage with most of the artists that inspired him to start writing in the first place.

Landon McGee

Landon McGee is a singer-songwriter who hails from Central Texas. His first album, “Kite”, is inspired by birds as a metaphor for human life, namely, the life of the soul. While it’s true that much of our time is spent eating and sleeping and trudging, our deepest life, the life of the soul, happens in narrative arcs that are not unlike the flight patterns of birds. Landon creates much of his music in the confine of a dorm room, after numerous quiet hours spent alone. Landon’s shared musical journey has just begun to take flight- don’t miss it.

Second Sunday Foreign Film
2015-06-14 15:00 - 18:00
Grand Stafford Theater is proud to continue our Second Sunday Foreign Films. Every second Sunday, Grand Stafford will feature a notable foreign film. The afternoon is open to the public and designed to encourage discussion and building of community.
Doors open at 3pm. Film starts at 3:30pm.

Software Developers Cartel
2015-06-16 16:30 - 19:30
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS CARTEL – BRIGHT MINDS FROM CENTRAL TEXAS
This month we will have another great lineup.
Doctor Frederic Parke from the Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University will be presenting "Immersive Visualization Systems"
A discussion of some issues associated with the design, implementation and application of tiled immersive visualization systems. These include the architecture of these multi-process, multi-processor systems, tile geometries, intra-tile seams, calibration and projection distortions, image synchronization, approaches to stereo display, example applications, and functionality.

Our second track will be a presentation by international entrepreneur and expert developer Tom Peck, Chief Architect at AppEngines. He will talk about Amazon Web Services, showing how you can use AWS to host large scale web sites and process huge amounts of data.

We will start setting up at 5:30pm. Guests are welcome to join us any time after that. SDC activities start at 6:30pm.

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Craft Beer and Cocktail Thursday
2015-06-18 16:30 - 22:00
Throughout the month of June we will expand Craft Beer & Cocktails to include both Tuesdays and Thursdays. Join us!

Beautiful Eulogy with Dre Murray
2015-06-20 20:00 - 23:00
Beautiful Eulogy

Beautiful Eulogy is a Portland, Oregon-based group made up of artists Braille, Odd Thomas and Courtland Urbano. The group introduces a distinct and directive sound that’s driven by a desire to worship and glorify the God of the Bible, based in the context of its members’ hip-hop roots and shaped by influences like electronic music, folk songs and old hymns.

Dre Murray

Dre Murray’s story is a rap world tale that hits all the familiar touch points. He was raised by a single mother in the inner city, seduced by hip hop culture at a young age, and witnessed the incarceration of a close family member. While many in his position pursue rescue through wealth and fame achieved by athletics or a recording career––two avenues he did indeed attempt, Murray ultimately found salvation elsewhere. Such optimism is a running theme in his music, which otherwise deals with the gritty details of life through first-person and fictional narratives punctuated with witty wordplay.
Although Dre Murray is no stranger to the mic––his first solo album, Manumit, was released in 2008, the Houston-born MC exponentially grew his audience a year later when he teamed with producer Wit for the Hell’s Paradise series. The success of those critically-acclaimed albums led to other high profile features for Dre on KJ-52’s Dangerous album and Lecrae’s mixtape Church Clothes hosted by Don Cannon.

Brad Stine
2015-06-21 19:00 - 21:00
Brad Stine
Brad Stine is the most media covered Christian comedian in the country. He has an 8-page profile written about him and his comedy in the New Yorker magazine where he was referred to as “Frantic, aggressive, and caustic with echoes of Robin Williams, Sam Kinison, and George Carlin…”- The New Yorker.
Over the last 3 years since Brad’s latest release “God’s Comic”, he has been grinding out new material while on the road from show to show. With a spirit to inspire believers and plant seeds of faith and reason of God’s existence through comedy using sword swallowing, sleight-of-hand, and optical illusion, we are are ready to present to you the “God Experience” Tour 2015.
Brad Stein’s Website

Craft Beer & Cocktail Thursday
2015-06-25 04:30 - 22:00

First Friday ft. Feeble Contenders, Pudge & Haley and more! Premium Passes Available
2015-07-03 20:00 - 23:30
The Feeble Contenders

The Feeble Contenders, a five piece rock band from Central Texas, are no strangers to the Alternative Rock Scene. Initially a solo act of frontman’s Joshua Sisco, the band came into their own with the addition of Alex Knoll and Marco Pisterzi in late 2011, with Nic Shields and Michael Martin following soon after. The band has spent the last four years not only earning a name for themselves locally, but has also funded tours and played along side big acts such as; Norma Jean, Listener, Before There Was Rosyln, Quiet Company, Octopus Project, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, and He Is Legend. They released their first EP in 2013 entitled “Circles”, an album brooding with songs about family, substance abuse, and losing faith. The band is currently writing their first full length album “Frightening Youth” set to release in Fall 2015, and planning their first full US summer tour.

Pudge & Haley

Choro das Tres
2015-07-09 20:00 - 23:00
Choro das Tres

Choro das 3 is a Brazilian instrumental group of three sisters and their father that first started to play as a band in 2002. Corina plays flute and piccolo. Lia plays 7-string guitar. Elisa plays mandolin, banjo, clarinet and piano.
Their father, Eduardo, plays pandeiro (the Brazilian tambourine).
The music they play is called Choro which is a form of urban jazz native to Brazil that shares a similar feel with New Orleans jazz or ragtime or bluegrass. Choro das 3’s mission is to revive the Choro tradition in Brazil, where they join several other young people in rediscovering this music, and to spread Choro around the world.

Second Sunday Foreign Film - "Tracks"
2015-07-12 15:00 - 18:00
Grand Stafford Theater is proud to continue our Second Sunday Foreign Film series this month with “Tracks”, an Australian feature film based on one woman’s real life journey across 1,700 miles of the Australian outback.
Tickets are $8 online and $10 at the door.
Doors open at 3pm. Film starts at 3:30pm. Popcorn included.
“Tracks”
Staring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver.
From the producers of “The King’s Speech”, “Tracks” stars Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver tells the story of Robyn Davidson’s journey across the Australian outback.
Official movie web site: tracks-movie.com/

CLAP & AoA - Latin Rock and Blues
2015-07-16 20:00 - 22:00
The bands’ proceeds will be donated to the brazos valley food bank

CLAP

Clap will play Latin blues and rock from their own vintage. Some songs in the repertoire will be played live for the first time after being aged exquisitely for many years in the virtual casks of the web. These songs are ready to be enjoyed by the world. Clap is Coco Leon, Luis Alberto San Andres, Andres Boner and Paulo Lima-Filho; they have performed in the local and international music scene for many years, solo or as members of Roca Azul, Dmos Bondelicos, Viru and Banda Plastica, among others.
Affection On Apartments
AoA consists of three guys that all play instruments. One loves Beyonce, one loves Josh Homme, and one loves Deerhoof. Guess who’s who!

BRAZOS VALLEY METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL 4
2015-07-17 19:00
BRAZOS VALLEY METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL 4
PRESENTED BY F13 MUSIC & LONE STAR METAL
Featuring:
THE OTHER SIDE OF ETERNITY
WILL AND TESTAMENT
AGAINST THE ARCHAIC
VERSA NOVA
DISTANCE HERE
THE AFFINITY INDEX
HEADCRUSHER
MYRA MAYBELLE

Software Developers Cartel
2015-07-21 16:30 - 19:00
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS CARTEL – BRIGHT MINDS FROM CENTRAL TEXAS
A new series of Mini-conferences and meetups about current trends, methods and frameworks in software development – from new advanced hardware devices to a simple app, using an awesome framework to build a web app in no time or hacking an AR Drone in javascript. Developers having fun practicing their craft, and learning new stuff.
Our purpose is to create a space where developers form can come and share their professional and personal experiences with any technology available. By sharing this experience, we hope to create, maintain and grow a community of curious and passionate developers while fostering and promoting best practices in software development and dev frameworks/tools.
Presentations start at 6:30pm (doors open at 4:30pm)
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Texas Music Pickers Songwriter Series- Erick Willis and Christopher Crow
2015-07-24 20:00 - 22:00
Erick Willis

In a time when many artists are striving to find their identity, Erick Willis is slowly leaving his mark on the scene, with a personality that is true and not just a stage persona. Taking cues from the music he was raised on Erick is blending soulful melodic lyrics, with the deep groove of roots-rock and as his lyric says, “with some of the harder stuff.” Showcasing a smooth voice with an excellent upper register, uniquely gravely at times, and always pleasant to the ear, Erick is bringing lots of soul to the mix, along with undeniably Texas inspired lyrics.
Christopher Crow
Talented local musician Christopher Crow shows his southern roots playing Alternative Blues with a flare that is sure to please the crowd every time.
For more info about Crow, check out his Facebook Page.
