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Monday, June 3

Swing back to the golden age of jazz at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month for Big Band Night with Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra. Northside Tavern hosts its weekly Blues Jam featuring blues and southern soul singer Lola Gulley. Enjoy your BBQ with a side of Dry White Toast at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack.

Tuesday, June 4

Great Scott! Rev up your DeLorean and go BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) when the Robert Zemeikis/Michael J. Fox sci-fi hit drives back onto the big screen at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern as the first in its June retro cinema classic series’ of Classic Summer Blockbusters! Kool Kat Calu Cordeira mixes tiki libations during Mai Tai Tahitian Tuesday starting at 9 p.m. at the Dark Horse Tavern. Grab your horn and head over to Twain’s in Decatur for a Joe Gransden jazz jam session. Blues it down with Nathan Nelson & Entertainment Crackers at Northside Tavern. It’s blues Burning Time at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Steve’s Live Music in Sandy Springs hosts a weekly Bluegrass Jam with Georgia Crackers, American Honey and Jason Koornick & Hank Weisman. Learn to hula hoop from a master hooper and Kool Kat Rebecca Deshon at Studio Burlesque with a Beginners/All Levels class at 6:30 p.m, followed by Intermediate Hoop Dance. Also Ursula Undress teaches Beginner’s Burlesque at 8:30 p.m.

AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle. Photo courtesy of AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle.

Wednesday, June 5

AJ Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle resurrect The Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Chastain Park. Find out more in ATLRetro’s exclusive interview with Jonathan here. Get schooled by two of Atlanta’s burlesque finest, Katherine Lashe or Kool Kat Talloolah Love in Beginning Burlesque classes at Studio Burlesque. Old enough to feel Retro? It’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd. Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck brings the Piedmont blues to Northside Tavern, and the blues rain down in a Georgia Flood at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack BACK TO THE FUTURE  in the morning with an 11:30 a.m. matinee in Northlake Festival Movie Tavern Retro Cinema series this week!

Thursday, June 6

Join the Atlanta Burlesque & Cabaret Club  for their June MeetUp at Elliott Street Deli & Pub. Relax with a cocktail while listening to the groovy island sounds of The Volcanauts with Tracey Wolfe at vintage tiki bar, Trader Vic’s. Go to Northside Tavern to hear the classic 50s Chicago-style blues of The Breeze Kings. Get on over to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack to hear the honkytonkin’ blues of  Chickenshack. It’s 80s/90s Retro Video Night with free drinks ’til 10 at The Shelter.  Rebecca Frazier and the Hit & Run Bluegrass Band take the stage at Red Light Cafe‘s weekly Bluegrass Thursday. If you didn’t get the chance to go to Studio Burlesque this week, you have another chance to try out Beginning Burlesque with Ursula Undressat 6:30 p.m. and enjoy live burlesque in the Performance Track Series at 9:30 p.m. And it’s your last chance to ride BACK TO THE FUTURE at Northlake Festival Movie Tavern this week!

Friday, June 7

Keep feelin’ Fascination, the swell new electro-swing night produced by the whimsical imaginations of Artifice Club co-founders Talloolah Love and Doctor Q at XS Ultra Lounge. The Bonaventure Quartet, featuring Kool Kat of the Week Amy Pike, performs acoustic versions of classic standards, western swing, gypsy jazz and original compositions under the dinosaurs at Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX. The Boo Hoo Ramblers honkytonk it up at The Family Dog. Swamp Funk Quartet deliver down and dirty blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. Robert Lee Coleman brings on the blues at Northside Tavern  And if you’re up for a little drive, the Jagged Stones, featuring Kool Kat Keef Richards, will be rocking the Monroe Downtown Courthouse Square with classic Rolling Stones hits.

Saturday, June 8

We don’t know if the dead can dance, but they’ll have plenty of swell live music to listen to during the annual Tunes from the Tombs festival at Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery. Performers include such ATLRetro favorites and Kool Kats as Blair Crimmins and the Hookers, The Bonaventure Quartet (watch for our Kool Kat of the Week feature on Amy Pike soon!), The Breeze Kings, Caroline and the Ramblers, Rod Hamdallah, Slim Chance and the Convicts and many more, starting at 1 p.m. George Romero taught us that speedy zombies were an oxymoron, but nevertheless expect a Day of the Dead when the Zombie Run takes over Atlanta Motor Speedway at 10 a.m. Steampunks unite in the name of a sturdy pint! The Artifice Club organizes its first Annual Artifice Club Photoshoot and Pub Crawl starting at noon at the Gazebo in the old Decatur Courthouse Square and continuing to various Decatur coffee shops and pubs all afternoon to 5 p.m. It’s Mods vs. Rockers, the old rivalry rises again but in the spirit of dance at the latest Pandemonium, Glam and Glitter Rock Dance Party at The Shelter! The Chameleon Queen leads a panel conversation about that little something extra that bands, babes, and burlyq bring to a con at SciFi Summer Con at the Wyndham Atlanta Northwest Perimeter. Atlanta based western swing/country finger-style duo The VaudeVillains duel guitars as only they can for a fun-filled CD release party at Red Light Cafe with pals Chad Shiver, Alias, Smith & Owens, and Bennie Gray & The Trailer Park Cowboys. It’s Allman Brothers Tribute Night at Northside Tavern.  Sly Dog will be barking the blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack. As usual, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 9

Cineprov makes some good-spirited fun of Bela Lugosi classic WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) at The Plaza Theater .The House Trio will jazz up The Family Dog from 7-10pm. Snake Legs bring on the blues at Fatt Matt’s  Rib Shack. The Porch Bottom Boys serve up a honkytonk brunch at Big Tex starting at noon. Get a spoonful of blues courtesy of Uncle Sugar at Northside Tavern.

Ongoing

EXTREME MAMMALS from sabertooth tiger skulls and wooly mammoth fur to contemporary creatures such as the duck-billed platypus invade Fernbank Museum of Natural History through August 18.

Learn about  a different side to the third American president and Constitution author in the Really Retro special exhibition Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: How the Word is Passed Down at the Atlanta History Center through July 7.

Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night is Retro Cinema at Movie Tavern. Check out classic movies on the big screen weekly at 7:30 p.m.

Do you have or know of a Retro event we should include in This Week in Retro Atlanta? Be sure to email us at atlretro@gmail.com!