Docs Music Hall

06/08/2024

Breaking this one out of the vault tonight for the show at Heorot!

"How Dare You" is the first track off The Michael Martin Band's new album, Uncle Stan!Check out The Michael Martin Band reverbnation for the full album!

04/14/2024

Want to learn more about Doc’s 2.0 and how it came to be? 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽

The City of Muncie and the Ball State Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute invites the community to learn and share feedback with them on April 18th at the Ball State Alumni Center.

The event is free, but they ask that you pre-register as a reception will be held following the event. This is the second town hall that In Place Impact Muncie has held this year.

04/02/2024

Want a free Magic City Musicfest Ticket? We will be giving out 1000 of these coupons around town for 1st First Thursday and to all of the different neighborhoods! The goal is to make it only 10 bucks for locals + you're supporting local biz, local artists, and Cornerstone Center for the Arts!

We're meeting at Cheryl Crowder's office at the Downtown Development Office at 5pm Thursday for the St. Team!

03/22/2024

This is where the good Dr will be 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Got them Friday night blues? The good Dr. is making house calls!

03/07/2024

Alright y'all! Please share for us! This is the full line up for The Magic City Music Fest!

02/14/2024

Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.

02/06/2024

Some of the other cool stuff happening in Muncie for the eclipse weekend!

Ball State University’s Charles W. Brown Planetarium—Indiana’s largest planetarium—will host a full slate of free activities in anticipation of Muncie’s first solar eclipse in more than 1,000 years.

01/25/2024

This alley has a special in our heart and history! Great work Muncie Arts and Culture Council on this installation! We're a little way away from this alley now, but Dr. John jams Fridays at Common Market now!

Members of the Muncie Community share how free and public art can positively contribute to a community.

01/06/2024

I heard about Gene's passing today. He was one of those early Muncie musicians that operated at another level of musicianship. Thanks for raising the bar here locally Gene. RIP.

12/29/2023

Tomorrow the good Dr. will be making house calls down at Common Market! Come get some of what’s good for you! Love and music!

I said Dr, Dr, Mr. MD… can you tell me what’s ailing me? He said you need love, love, love 💕 oh and music! Tomorrow night the lights will be flowing in the night down here in TPA ‘til 10!

12/19/2023

Ok friends, please share for us! This is one of the reasons I have been home to get things together. It is time to hit the road for the next 10 year run and Nashville.

If you're interested in seeing the backroads and highways through the windows of an old band van, and want to be 'On The Road' this may be for you! Equity in the band and paying gigs. Only super serious musicians need to apply!

12/03/2023

This was the last 2 years of core projects we've been working on here.

Updates: (thanks to Game Changers) - Common Market General Clean up / Painting / Floor is done! Now it's time to build the biz.

May Day Common Cook Out & Car Show will go into it's 3rd years this year! (Also thanks to GC)

The Recovery Farm: Reviewing what's possible we decide to sell this. We did sell to local Indiana residents, and finished the buyout of the California Investors who bought it out of a Del County tax sale.

I'll be following up with everyone who has reached out this week!

10/27/2023

I said Dr. Dr., Mr. MD! Can you tell me what’s ailin’ me! Good love!

10/09/2023

I’m sitting in for Doc this Friday at Common Market! He’s got a private gig. I’ll be joined by Lil Jay Jay, who recently performed at Muncie Arts and Culture Council’s Mayors Arts Awards!

08/11/2023

Don’t call it a come back, we’ve been here for years!

08/11/2023

Dr. John has been bringing it all back home with a very special Juke Joint Jam Session at The Common Market (8th & Hoyt: The Old Kenny's Floor Covering). The music is free and the pizza is as good as the old Doc's days! 7pm tonight!

07/14/2023

The good Dr. Is in the house tomorrow 7 to 10!

The bodhisattva.

10/08/2022

👻 10 years since closing time at Doc's Music Hall. Stayed tuned for the 10-year reunion event for all the Doc's Music Hall music lovers, music makers and merry makers!

An excerpt from Dr. John "Doc" Peterson's book, The True Life Adventures of Captain Wa Wah: "The space was transformed into a comfortable night club, a hidden jewel in Downtown Muncie. National acts, musicians and comedians who performed there all remarked that DOCS was one of the best venues in the Midwest -- nicer than some of the downtown venues in Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis or Kansas City. Paul [Troxell] had created a masterpiece. He put a sign at the front entrance stating, 'You enter as guests, but you leave as friends.' This became the operating philosophy for the venue."

💙 We look forward to seeing all of our friends soon!