Curtiss A's Elvis show has left the 501

Curt is moving his birthday tribute to the King to Feb. 4 at the 331 Club to make way for Saturday's MC/VL farewell show.

January 6, 2011 at 4:16PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Curtiss A and his bandmates play a mean Elvis, in addition to their annual John Lennon tributes. / By Tom Wallace, Star Tribune
Curtiss A and his bandmates play a mean Elvis, in addition to their annual John Lennon tributes. / By Tom Wallace, Star Tribune (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

"We can't go on together," Curtiss A will be singing Feb. 4 at the 331 Club -- and apparently that's also what he told the fellas of MC/VL and the 501 Club, where he was supposed to perform Saturday.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

To make room for slapstick hip-hop duo MC/VL's farewell show at the soon-to-close 501 Club (which was originally supposed to happen at the temporarily closed Turf Club), Saturday's birthday tribute to Elvis by Curtiss A & the Jerks of Fate has been rescheduled for Feb. 4 at the 501's sister venue the 331 Club. Initially, the Elvis show was going to be moved up earlier in the night at the 501, but with four fun bands booked for MC/VL's final gig -- also including Pink Mink, Slapping Purses and Kitten Forever (9 p.m., $7) -- it certainly seemed like too much for one night, even for the last night at the 501 Club. And as anyone who caught Curt & the Jerks' performances at the Elvis impersonator contests in years past at Mayslack's knows, they can probably play all night.

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Chris Riemenschneider

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Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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