Local music news & events
• Guitar hero: Along with playing and writing with Godsmack singer Sully Erna, Chris Lester is a fixture on the regional music scene. He’s remembered for his time in Mama Kicks and for the past several years as Joe Walsh’s doppelgänger in the tribute band Dark Desert Eagles. Earlier this year, Lester contributed to a track on Ace Frehley’s latest album, Cosmic Heart. He performs an early evening set. Thursday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m., The Local, 15 E. Main St., Warner. Visit chrislester.live.
• Local lights: A new record and a trip down memory lane combine when Addison Chase headlines a show in downtown Concord. Selections from Chase’s meditation on parenthood, love and personal growth Better Soon will be followed by a reunion performance of his old band Dressed for the Occasion. The evening kicks off with fellow local luminaries Lucas Gallo & the Guise doing an original set. Friday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m., BNH Stage, 16 S. Main St., Concord, $15 at ccanh.com.
• Petty theft: A tribute act that strives to capture look, feel and sound, Damn the Torpedoes began covering Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers a decade before Petty passed. Their headband-wearing, Rickenbacker-playing front man Rich Kubicz is quite convincing on songs like “Jammin’ Me” and “I Need to Know” while his cohorts deliver the chops needed to convey the legendary rockers. Saturday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m., Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst St., Manchester, $35 at palacetheatre.org.
• Dead blue: Fresh off a run of festival appearances, Fireside Collective brings the Grateful Dead-themed Fireside on the Mountain show to a bucolic Granite State venue. Sunday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m., The Word Barn, 66 Newfields Road, Exeter, $25 at portsmouthticketsnh.com.
• Folk treasure: An evening of music and conversation spotlights Rachel Kilgour, who released the brilliant My Father Loved Me last year. The Rose Cousins-produced LP is a “journal of music” composed in the wake of a dementia diagnosis. “No one’s perfect but when you can find the spirit of a person through their deeds and words, that will make your peace,” one critic wrote of it. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 6 p.m., Hermit Woods Winery, 72 Main St., Meredith, $18 at eventbrite.com.