Old Heavy Hands Night 2
OLD HEAVY HANDS NIGHT 2!An acoustic evening with our friends, Old Heavy Hands with support from John Charles Dwyer!
The Stews with Harvey St. Co.
The StewsBlending genres such as hard rock, alternative, indie and more- The Stews are a rock band that cannot be confined to just one sound. Spawned out of impromptu basement jam sessions in the Fall of 2020, the band started as a group of friends who also happened to be musicians. This chemistry is what fuels their electric (often sweaty) live shows and allows them to write the music that they love to play. The Stews consist of Preston Hall, Blake Dobbs, Bennett Baugus, and Wyatt Griffith. HARVEY STREEY CO.Indie and alternative rock vibrations crafted with love and diligence out of Raleigh, NC.
Posture
Posture is a collaborative Jazz group based out of Winston-Salem, NC. Their debut album, “Posture” features a blend of Soul music with Jazz/Classical influences. The songs are written collaboratively by Chaisaray (Drums), (John Ray) Bass, Michael Anderson (Keys/Synth), and Tori Elliot Vocals/Lyrics.
NIGHTBLOOMS w/ Blue Cactus and Gentle Junior
NIGHTBLOOMSOne of the hardest parts about having a band is describing what you sound like. It’s often easier just to reference other bands people might actually know (Elliott Smith, Weyes Blood, George Harrison, Grizzly Bear, The War on Drugs, fwiw) than to come up with overused adjectives and round-about metaphors. I guess I could tell you that Nightblooms sounds a little like Lilac Shadows but filtered through acoustic guitars, pianos, and a lot less volume. That might help, but you also might be like, “I don’t know what Lilac Shadows is.” I could say we use lots of synthesizers or that lyrically our songs are anxious as hell but pretty fun musically. But like Saul Bellow (maybe?) once said, “I’m the bird — you’re the ornithologist.” So just listen and see what comes to mind. It’ll probably be more evocative than I can write here anyway. Whatever we sound like to you, I just hope you enjoy it.Blue CactusBlue Cactus, the North Carolina duo of Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, make Dream Country: a blend of grit, glitz, groove, and twang that evokes a celestial soundscape of mid-century heartbreak. Following their critically acclaimed 2017 debut and a string of singles in 2020 their evolution is made plain on their sophomore LP, Stranger Again, released on Sleepy Cat Records. The album has received enthusiastic attention from tastemakers including No Depression, American Songwriter, FLOOD Magazine, Talkhouse and INDY Week among others.Stranger Again is a deep dive into Cosmic American music, with the band taking their sound into ambitious new planes, where country-rock meets psychedelia as the soaring vocals meet twangy slide-guitars and propulsive bass-lines. The otherworldliness of the music is a perfect contrast to their distinctly grounded, human storytelling lyrics that explore loss, longing, self-love, and reckoning with personal, political and human struggles.With a high lonesome twang, an Emmylou-like southern drawl, and blistering guitar techniques, Blue Cactus’ new record exercises the honky-tonk muscles to firmly bear the flag for a new generation of Country and Americana.They have graced festival stages and shared stages with the likes of The War and Treaty, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Lilly Hiatt, and Junior Brown among others–building a fanbase that cherishes their singular, but familiarly rewarding take on Country music.
