8 DAYS A WEEK: Your look at Valley Arts Tweet Published February 03. 2022 05:25AM Bat, 8 p.m. Feb. 5, Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. Doors open at 6 p.m. The show is created and produced by Meat Loaf music director-guitarist-record producer Paul Crook. The concert takes on heightened significance with the death of Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday, Sept. 27, 1947 - Jan. 20, 2022). The show is said to be the only one officially endorsed by Meat Loaf. Meat Loaf’s Neverland Band, in photo above, recreates Mean Loaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” (1977) album and other hit songs, featuring Caleb Johnson, who won the 13th season of “American Idol.” The concert is expected to include renditions of Meat Loaf’s hits, including ’“Bat Out of Hell,” “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and “I Would Do Anything For Love.” Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com; Ticketmaster: 800-745-3000; Penn’s Peak box office; Information: https://www.pennspeak.com/events/all; 866-605-PEAK (7325) Amy Speace, Antje Duvekot, 7 p.m. Feb. 3, Godfrey Daniels, 7 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem. Speace, above, a Baltimore, Md., native, lives in Nashville, where she founded the East Nashville Song Salon in 2010. The title track of her album, “Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne” (2019), was named International Song of the Year in 2020 by the Americana Music Association UK. Among her nine albums are “Fable” (2002) and “There Used To Be Horses Here” (2021). Her next CD, “Tuscon,” is to be released soon. Duvekot, below, is a singer-songwriter-guitarist of Somerville, Mass. She received the Kerrville New Folk Competition Best New Folk Award, Boston Music Award for Outstanding Folk Act and Grand Prize in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Among her eight albums are “Little Peppermints” (2002), “Boys, Flowers, Miles” (2005), “Big Dream Boulevard” (2006) and “Toward The Thunder” (2016). Tickets: https://godfreydaniels.org; 610-867-2390 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONTRIBUTED PHOTO CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY DAVID SHANKBONE
