Summer Kickstart

Free Concert Weekend at Outlaw Square

Deadwood Mountain Grand in Partnership with Outlaw Square presents

May 24, 2024 - May 25, 2024

Let’s kickoff summer with the second annual SUMMER KICKSTART, FREE concerts held Memorial weekend in Outlaw Square headlined by Neal McCoy and Big Head Todd and The Monsters.

Deadwood Mountain Grand is partnering with Deadwood’s Outlaw Square to present a free kick-start to summer concert weekend featuring free concerts by Neal McCoy on Friday, May 24 and legendary rockers Big Head Todd and The Monsters on Saturday, May 25 on the outdoor Sue Lundberg Memorial Stage at Outlaw Square.

Summer Kickstart Headliners

Neal McCoy – Friday, May 24

Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Saturday, May 25

Big Head Todd and The Monsters have quietly become an American institution following three and a half decades of writing, recording, and touring (totaling over 3,500 performances). After countless sold out shows in amphitheaters and on the high seas, beaming their tunes to outer space (literally), earning the endorsement of everyone from Robert Plant to The Denver Broncos, and tallying tens of millions of streams, Big Head Todd and The Monsters cite the friendships formed in the crowd among their proudest accomplishments. Fast forward to 2021 and the Colorado quartet—Todd Park Mohr [vocals, guitar, keys, sax, harmonica], Brian Nevin [drums, percussion], Rob Squires [bass, vocals], and Jeremy Lawton [guitar, keys, vocals, steel guitar]—continue to unite audiences.

They served up their independent debut Another Mayberry in 1989 and Midnight Radio in 1990 to critical acclaim, setting the stage for their seminal 1993 breakout Sister Sweetly. Powered by staples “Broken Hearted Savior,” “It’s Alright,” and “Bittersweet,” it eventually went platinum, and they supported Plant on tour. At the time, Variety hailed Todd as “a soulful singer and nimble lead guitarist,” while The Los Angeles Times claimed, “Mohr, who has a voice like smoke, writes great songs that incorporates blues, folk, rock and country, which sounds sort of like, well, Big Head Todd and the Monsters.”

Throughout the next decade, the group presented fan favorites such as Strategem [1994] and Beautiful World [1997]. The latter yielded the cover of “Boom Boom” [feat. John Lee Hooker], which famously served as the theme to NCIS: New Orleans. In 2005, they exceeded our atmosphere altogether. Friends with connections to NASA encouraged Todd to write a song for NASA, so they ignited 2005’s “Blue Sky.” In 2011, Big Head Todd and The Monsters played “Blue Sky” live from the middle of Mission Control to awaken the astronauts aboard the shuttle. 2017 saw them release New World Arisin’ to fan adoration and critical acclaim. Glide Magazine claimed, “such tracks, like most of this music, radiate a sense of optimism and purpose ever so welcome in these fragmented times.”

Summer Kickoff Deadwood Mountain Grand Outlaw Square

About the Partners

Outlaw Square was created through a public-private partnership with a concerted effort to build a local gathering space to accommodate public events. Historically, Deadwood had public spaces including a gazebo or band stand on Sherman Street and Chautauqua Park on the top of McGovern Hill as well as early parks. But as the decades wore on, some of the locations and facilities succumbed to age or redevelopment. Deadwood now has a state of the art facility as a public gather space hosting a variety of events and activities year round.

Construction of Outlaw Square began in the autumn of 2018 with funding coming from the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the State of South Dakota. Its location on the corner of Deadwood Street and Main Street is the former site of Deadwood’s City Hall and the Deadwood Theater, grand Victorian-era public buildings that were destroyed by a tragic fire in 1952.

It’s also less than 100 feet from the confluence of Whitewood Creek, City Creek, and Deadwood Creek, where gold was first discovered in Deadwood Gulch in late 1875 – an event that opened the floodgates to the prospectors, entrepreneurs, and gamblers who built Deadwood into one of the West’s most legendary towns.

Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel, a Holiday Inn Resort is the restored 1906 Homestake Mining Co. ore processing plant that overlooks Historic Deadwood, which features a 98-room luxury hotel, full service restaurants, 210 state-of-the-art casino games, high stakes gaming action including Dale’s Sportsbook Bar & Grill, a 3,000 person entertainment and event center and a multi-level parking garage.

Additional sponsors include BID 9 Properties, a voluntary group of Deadwood businesses supporting Outlaw Square, the Deadwood Social Club and the Silverado-Franklin.

 

Ticket Information

Ticket Information: FREE CONCERTS!

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