After a successful opening season in the spring, the Ghost Light venue will offer another concert series featuring a variety of local talent.

The new concert setting at the Columbia Theatre in downtown Hammond made its debut last semester. The series features rising local and national music artists. There are four shows scheduled in the Ghost Light 2014-2015 Concert Series: Sept. 4, Nov. 20, Feb. 26 and April 23. 

In addition, the Ghost Light will offer a free concert during Hot August Night on Aug. 15, where Jason Martin from Baton Rouge will be performing songs from his new CD. He will be sharing stage time with Better By Design of Hammond. 

The first showing will feature Baton Rouge bands Listen, Earth and West Without as the opening acts while local Hammond band Modern Language will be debuting as the headlining act. 

“It’s going to be a great show; all three bands are awesome,” said David Avelar II, operations and production technical assistant. “As for the headliner, Modern Language, they played an opening set in one of our shows last series. I knew about half way through their set that I wanted to book them as a headliner. They’re a great band with their own sound, but most of all, you can hear their heart in the music. They’re the real deal.” 

The Ghost Light features original music from growing artists, booking everything from folk to indie pop rock to hard rock to electronic music. The event normally features three bands/artists per show, allowing for a mixture of music styles and sounds.

“If you want to hear great original music with great lighting and sound from up and coming artists, you want to come to a show at the Ghost Light,” said Avelar.

The Columbia Theatre will be making improvements to the event, in hopes of making it more entertaining than the spring series.

“There are some new stage design elements. A new sign will be up and some new lighting and sound elements as well,” said Avelar. “We also have a couple other ideas in the works, some things that attendees from the last series said they’d like to see, so we’re trying to make that happen.”

Ghost Light tickets are $7 each and the doors open  at 7 p.m. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Interested bands and artists can visit the Ghost Light Facebook page or columbiatheatre.org to enter through the submission form, available in the electronic press kit. 

The Telegraph Salesmen, who won KSLU’s spring Battle of the Bands competition, were
one of many local groups to perform at the new Ghost Light concert venue at the
Columbia Theater in spring 2014.  The Lion’s Roar /  Megan Simon