Magic City Hippies @ the Redstone Room -- September 30.

Saturday, September 30, 8:30 p.m.

The Redstone Room, 129 Main Street, Davenport IA

The Miami-based Magic City Hippies will bring their indie-funk stylings to the Redstone Room on September 30 – the latest engagement in a busy year that has already seen the musicians opening for Hippo Campus's two-month national tour and enjoying summer-festival sets at SunFest and Bonnaroo.

Magic City Hippies unofficially began as a one-man band, with the group's frontman Robby Hunter playing solo hip-hop covers and original tunes for passers-by on the streets of Miami. After Hunter teamed with multi-instrumentalists John Coughlin and Pat Howard and dubbed themselves the Robby Hunter Band, the trio self-produced their debut album in 2013, a release that found SunsetInTheRearview.com calling them “their own mixed drink, blending parts blues, parts funk, and parts hip-hop into one sun-kissed, beach-ready concoction.”

The title of that album was Magic City Hippies – a moniker subsequently chosen to be the band's new name – and in 2015, the first official Magic City Hippies release arrived in the form of the EP Hippie Castle, whose lead-off track “Fanfare” hit number-one on both the Hype Machine chart and Spotify's Global Viral Top 50. To date, the EP has accumulated more than 10 million Spotify streams for the group that, according to NorthwestMusicScene.net, has “vibrant and impressive stage presence” and “a brightness that everyone could relate to.”

September 30's Magic City Hippies concert opens with sets by Sister Wife and Jr. Clooney, and more information and tickets are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RiverMusicExperience.org.

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