On Friday, February 26th Miami’s oldest and most famous live music venue, The Legendary Tobacco Road, will strip down and go completely acoustic for one night. Tobacco Road is located at 626 South Miami Avenue in Downtown Miami. Admission for this event is $10. You must be 21 or older to attend. Advanced tickets are on sale now. The event will kick off after business hours with Tobacco Road’s famous Happy Hour Friday, featuring drink specials as low as 98 cents per drink. Performances will go on all through the night until 2 AM. Scheduled performers include local popular acts The Coffee House Gypsies, Ominae, City of Sirens, and Thousand Pounds of Thrust, all performing their music in MTV Unplugged-like fashion. Out of town talents are also being brought in for the show. Singer/songwriter Danny Salazar, the minstrel from Naples, Florida is among the invited. The evening kicks off on the second floor at 9:00 PM (upstairs doors will open at 8:30) when the Dylan-esque Danny Salazar will take to the stage. Coffee House Gypsies front-man Albert Damian will provide backup harmony vocals. This will be the first duo performance by Danny Salazar and Albert Damian in almost ten years. The duet will be followed by an acoustic folk-rock mini concert by the alternative rock band, The Coffee House Gypsies. The Coffee House Gypsies recently won Best Pop Band in the QOOL Shows Awards after a successful benefit concert for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and a series of performances in New York city. Zaida (lead singer of Little Hoolie’s house band, EGO) will team up with Tony Cruz from The Bailouts for another duet performance after The CHG. Downstairs similar acoustic sets by bands like City of Sirens and Level are expected to be equally great. For a special treat, around midnight audiences will be treated to the stripped-down version of local heavy metal band, Thousand Pounds of Thrust. Singer/songwriter, Ominae is also expected to perform. “We are very excited to be doing this,” said the lead singer for Thousand Pounds of Thrust. “We rearranged our songs to have really different progressions and minor chords, and we are doing some really neat pluck arrangements. It’s going to be a lot of fun.” The female voice of The Coffee House Gypsies, Alexandra Norris said, “We always love playing acoustic shows. We don’t get to do it very often anymore, but when Coffee House Gypsies first started we were actually an acoustic band. Then the electric guitars and drums came into the mix. For us this is sort of like going back to where it all began, and sharing the stage with Danny again solidifies it. It’s a reunion. We are going have a lot of fun.” The evening of all-acoustic performances is a QOOL Shows/Queen of The Scene event hosted by DJ Oski and Tobacco Road. Tobacco Road usually hosts live rock and blues, making this a soiree outside of the usual that should not be missed. For more information or to order tickets please email: q_o_t_s@yahoo.com or visit Queen of The Scene online at: www.queenofthescene.net. Press pass tickets are now available for members of the local media. For information about the Tobacco Road venue and its shows please visit www.tobacco-road.com or call 305-374-1198.