Tonight at 7:30pm, join the Oxford American magazine for this week’s Local Live concert at South on Main, featuring Katmandu!

As always, Local Live is free and open to the public. To guarantee a table/seat for this popular series, call ahead at (501) 244-9660. Local Live is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Ben and Jane Hunt Meade.

Katmandu is primarily a classic rock band based out of Central Arkansas. All band members have been playing together in various bands off and on for several years including the Resistors, Idol hands, and Thumpin. Band members include Kat Hood on lead vocals and guitar, Chuck Gilbert lead guitar and vocals, Paul Edmonson on drums and vocals, Billy Hoover on keyboard and vocals, David Seago on bass guitar and Vince Castiglia III on vocals and guitar. Kat and Chuck met in 2001 and began the acoustic duo that later became the Kat Hood Trio w/ Eric Nolen. The trio were the 2002 Central Arkansas Acoustic festival and their 2004 performance still can be seen on AETN’s Front Row.

In 2009, a mutual desire to play classic rock tunes with Chuck’s former band mate, Paul Edmonson, inspired the beginnings of Katmandu. Their slogan, “Music for you that works for us” came from their vision of performing a variety of well loved, but not over played tunes by such artists as Steely Dan, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Allman brothers, Fleetwood Mac, the Band, etc. Their repertoire also includes some interesting original band compositions that stem from the acoustic flavor that the duo started out with. Expect to hear some tight vocal harmonies backed by solid, in-the-pocket percussion, creative guitar and piano leads, and a band that truly loves each other as well as the music they obviously love to perform.