Dec 13, 2018 2 min read

Canonsburg native and Mt. Lebanon resident Gregg Kostelich continues to bring quality artists to his Get Hip Recordings performance venue.

Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys In the Campfire takes the stage at 8 p.m. Friday and Josh White Jr. at 7 p.m. the following night in concerts at 1800 Columbus Ave. in the North Side.

Billing themselves as playing “punk with a country twang,” Stinson and Chip Roberts have been performing together for 10 years, and their respective careers go back decades.

Stinson made his mark as bass guitarist for alternative-rock pioneers the Replacements, joining Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars and Bob Stinson, his late brother, in a band that was nominated in 2014 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He later played bass for Hall inductee Guns N’ Roses, appearing on the 2008 album “Chinese Democracy.”

Roberts, who specializes in lap-steel guitar, has played on Tommy Stinson releases included his first solo album, “One Man Mutiny” and on the 2017 reunion album of the Stinson-led band Bash & Pop, “Anything Can Happen.”

As for White, his performing career started when he appeared onstage at age 4 with his father, a famed singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist. He went on to be honored four years later, in 1949, with a special Tony Award for Best Child Actor, and he appeared on more than 50 TV shows by his 21st birthday.

On the musical side, his debut as a recording artist was on an album with his father, “See Saw,” released on Decca Records in 1956. Seven years later, he recorded a version of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind” with Beverly White, his sister, as his first single.

His 1999 album “House of the Rising Son” pays tribute to his father with a set of songs that were integral to the repertoire of Josh Sr. (1914-69).

Joining White Jr. on the Get Hip bill are Pittsburgh-area musicians Kayla Schureman and Ben Sweet. A Mt. Lebanon resident, Sweet released “Reverie” this year as the debut EP of his band The Local, with fellow members Dean Henry and Jenny Reilly.

Kostelich, known internationally as guitarist for the Cynics, owns Get Hip with his wife, Barbara Garcia-Bernardo, who conducts yoga classes at the venue.

For more information about the concerts, visit https://www.gethip.com/site/ghr-live-calendar-december2018/.