Shovels and Rope announces spring 2012 dates, coming to Durham

Charleston husband and wife duo Shovels and Rope were among the many great bands announced to play the 2012 Hopscotch Music Festival in September, but you don't have to wait that long to see the band in the Triangle.

They're playing the Casbah in Durham on Wednesday, May 16. John Howie, Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff and Wylie Hunter will open. Tickets are on sale now via Etix for $10.

Check out a review and photos from Shovels and Rope's show at Local 506 last August HERE. The band plans to release a new album titled O' Be Joyful on July 31.

This week's Local Band Local Beer: Debonzo Brothers & Wylie Hunter & the Cazadores

There is just one last free Local Band Local Beer show at Tir Na Nog in 2011 on December 29 and it will feature two local folk rock bands.

Raleigh's Debonzo Brothers and Chapel Hill's Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores. Srteam Debonzo Brothers' Places EP as well as Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores' self-titled EP below.

As always, the music starts at about 10 p.m. and the show is ages 21 and up.