Two Charleston favorites are performing together this Saturday at Macs’ Uptowner, located at 623 Monroe Ave.

The show starts at 9:30 p.m. and cover is $3.

Patrons must be 21 years or older to enter.

Copecetic, a three-piece band that consists of vocalist and keyboardist Steven Kaufman, bassist Dustin Politsch, and drummer Shayne Cordevant, has been performing at Macs’ Uptowner for three years.

This time, they will be joined on stage by guitarist Todd Hazelrigg.

“It’s great to have someone new play with us. It keeps me on my toes,” Kaufman said. “I’m looking forward to what he’ll do.”

Hazelrigg himself has played at Macs’ Uptowner four times in the past six months, opening for Copecetic during their last show, as well as the The Fights and Montreal Screwjob.

“I’m happy to be a regular at the Towner. It’s a good home-town bar,” Hazelrigg said.

Hazelrigg is a Kankakee native, but is moving to Charleston in the fall to study engineering at Eastern.

Copecetic asked Hazelrigg to join them on a series of shows this summer. Saturday’s show is the first of those shows.

All their summer shows are promotion for Copecetic’s music festival, RageFest.

Copecetic will be raffling off a pair of tickets to RageFest at Saturday’s show.

RageFest is June 26-28 in New Athens, Ill., in St. Clair County.

Kaufman expects 700-1,000 people in attendance to see the festival’s 24 artists.

“It’s gonna be a hoot,” Kaufman said. “A good number of people coming back to Illinois for it.”

Kaufman said RageFest started “as a party in a barn on a farm.”

“It got bigger and bigger. Eventually it got too big for the farm,” Kaufman said. “ It’s more work for me this year because it is so big. But we do it for the same reason we keep playing music anywhere: to share the love, have some fun, make a living.”

The full line-up and ticket information can be found at rage-fest.com.

Kaufman and Hazelrigg both said they’re excited to be playing together.

The two have jammed together a few times, but this is their first attempt at working together professionally.

“It’s been fun every time,” Kaufman said of playing with Hazelrigg. “I can only imagine it’ll get better with a little practice, dedication, and homework.”

Kara Baker can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].