2/19/22 - 717 Entertainment introduces a brand new element in the ever growing Empire. Shows and Advertising are both on the rise as 2022 starts to take shape w/ names such as Jimmies Chicken Shack, Tantric, The Bunny The Bear and so many more all coming to Mechanicsburg or Thomasville at the Racehorse Tavern. Recently 717 began calling Lovedraft’s in Mechanicsburg as thier new home after the “falling out” or sorts w/ HMAC. Currently we are able to book at Lovedraft’s (of course), Racehorse Tavern in Thomasville along w/ The Tourist in down in hellam PA thanks To Chuck from Leadfoot. We’ve had a very nice long lasting relationship w/ Chuck as well as James over at the Racehorse Tavern hence the reason we’ve put Tantric down there at the Racehorse and we fully intend on Selling that show out as that venue and staff and owner deserve a Huge sellout show.
Here’s an interesting rinkle in the 2022 717 Entertainment season. We have gotten word that Cliff’s Underground (Formerly Gullifty’s) is opening up for bands again starting in late March early April. 15 years ago we started our career w/ this venue putting on the 717 Music Awards (at the time called “The Doctors Office Awards”.) along w/ bands like Havok in Hollywood, Taproot, Psychostick, Primer 55, 40 Below Summer and of course the 717 Music Awards all 8 years were held at this venue.
These venues along w/ Mickey’s Black Box and Phantom Power along w/ a few venues even in Baltimore are all at our disposal which opens up 717 Entertainment to its biggest audience in the 15 year history of our brand. Could we book at HMAC or Scott Churches “the Church”? Of course we could at any point but both venues are doing well w/out us in particular “The Church” out there in Lebanon. The moral of this story is we have so many venues at our disposal at this point that we are so overwhelmed and excited to share so many things w/ you.
Banded: Our Podcast which begins hopefully in Febuary is the newest extension of the 717E brand. We will be discussing our shows coming up, some history, local bands, news, and every month we’ll have new guests. Joining us on this Journey will be our co-host Addam Robert Paul of The Destruct Principle & The Mary Lous. We are so excited to share this with you all as we have so many amazing ideas. We truly believe this is the next evolution in the 717 Entertainment Story, brought to you by Ree Rabbit Radio who is an already established podcast crew. We urge you to watch all content on the channel as they have so much to offer that you could spend days checking out all the content.
To begin we plan on having our podcast once a month though our goal is to up that to 2 times or 3 times a month featuring news about upcoming shows and naturally guests featured on upcoming shows. We’ll discuss all things music, not just local but all the biggest stories in the music industry We’ll have a live chat and call in oppurtunities as well upon being established. The first show or two will be us getting our feet wet however once we get used to the platform we willl be in full steam ahead. We’ll have guests that includ local, regional and national musicians among others w/ insight and stories just to entertain you. We hope to get you and many many others hooked on our show so that we can have a huge audience and bring more awareness and attention to the local music scene.
We’ll be doing a practice run tomorrow night that we’ll “Maybe” put up on our site after the fact. No promises but we will be announcing the date of our first show and we intend to have some very special guests on the first show. Please keep paying attention to this page along w/ our social media sites so you can keep up w/ us and all our goings on’s…..