When We’re Sober w/ South Elm Sound
When We’re Sober is a genre-bending alt-rock band hailing from Greensboro, NC. Defined by a heavy grunge sound dripping with sonic energy, the band simultaneously explores diverse styles in their songwriting. Ranging from jangly pop-rock to heavy metal to folk-rock ballads, there’s few avenues the band won’t walk.
Planet Pluto
Planet Pluto brings high energy setlist of 80s 90s 00s covers but not the usual cliches. You will end the night with a satisfied smile and no regrets.
Florencia & The Feeling w/Duck
Johnson City, Tennessee based pop-funk fusion band Florencia & the Feeling independently released their debut album, ‘Birthday’ in March 2023 which Vents Magazine called, “pure, unadulterated fun.” With a crowdsourcing campaign that raised over $10,000, and a growing legion of fans, Florencia & the Feeling delivers an amazing live show that has been resonating with music lovers since their conception in April 2021. This quintet has been impressing listeners with their upbeat funky grooves, heartfelt songwriting, soaring 4 part harmonies, and all-around good vibes, culminating in a unique sound with hints of jazz, and Latin roots. The members of the band draw on a myriad of genres from their musical backgrounds – funk, jazz, Nu Soul, jam, pop, indie rock, roots, and more – to create a distinctive blend of musical magic. This fusion has earned the group recognition and esteemed performances, including Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Tennessee/Virginia, Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival in North Carolina, and an opening slot for The Mavericks. Radio Bristol praised the band’s “tight rhythmic jams and groovy guitar riffs,” while the Bristol Herald Courier called their sound “happy music” and “joyful noise,” and went on to say “their songs compel smiles on faces and dancing from feet.” Check out quintet’s tour dates & music on their website, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or any other music listening platform.
Songwriter Series w/ Abigail Dowd: ft. Karla Davis + George Hage
Karla Davis is a soulful singer/songwriter originally from Monroe, North Carolina. Having performed on the stages of NBC’s The Voice, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Grand Ole Opry, and the Ryman, Karla has certainly found her voice. Often described as having a “country blue-eyed soul” sound, it’s no surprise that Davis’ inspiration is rooted in artists like Roberta Flack, James Taylor, and Bonnie Rait. You can find Karla’s recently released unique cover of the Bruce Springsteen classic “Dancing in the Dark” on all platforms now. www.karladavismusic.com George Hage – George Hage is a self-taught, published artist and songwriter based in North Carolina. He’s the frontman and songwriter for Jack The Radio who has shared the stage with The Avett Brothers, Hall & Oates, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, George Thorogood, and American Aquarium to name a few. Their music has been featured in commercial, film, and TV projects including Modern Family and NASCAR, NFL programming. http://www.george-hage.com/ Our fearless host, Abigail enjoys music most when it’s embedded in real life, sitting around a fire, singing harmonies around an old family piano, or every third Tuesday night at the Flat Iron. Abigail invites musician friends to fall into space in her adopted living room. They share new songs, play old favorites, make things up, make you cry, make you laugh and most of all make you glad you came.
BLUES GROOVE BEAT BATTLE: FROM BLUES TO HIP HOP– FT. KYRAN SCOTT
Presented by Piedmont Blues Preservation Society & Strangefruit Featuring Kyran Scott + DJ J.Lone
An Evening With: Scott Miller
“Long before co-founding that dapper twangpop outfit [The V-Roys], Miller logged many miles on the singer-songwriter trail as kind of a cross between John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III.” (No Depression) “Scott Miller’s songwriting has always balanced wit with woe.” (Relix) Recently inducted to the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, fiery roots-rock singer/songwriter SCOTT MILLER returned to his native Virginia to tend the family farm while continuing to release and perform new music informed by that rural area, history, and Appalachia. The Staunton native first made a name for himself in the 90s as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter with the superb pop/rock band the V-Roys before establishing himself as a gifted and eclectic solo artist, first with his ad hoc group the Commonwealth and later on his own. “[Miller combines] the emotional honesty and intelligence of a singer/songwriter with the swagger and enthusiasm of a rock & roller… a gifted and eclectic solo artist.” (AllMusic.com). As seen on tour with Patty Griffin, Robbie Fulks, Paul Thorn and American Aquarium.
Royal Jelly Album Release Show w/ The Hypnotic Conquest
Greensboro’s own funkateers, Royal Jelly, Royal Fn’ Jelly, Royal Royal Jelly Jelly is will proudly be dropping their second album, Ride Hard on June 20th at the illustrious Flat Iron. This album is a culmination of two years of strapping it up by the bootstraps and getting it done by any means necessary, a funky soup of rockin’ jams, jammy jams and funkin rockin jams made with love, blood and booty sweat. The album features Sandy Blocker on Congas, Bob Keilbasi Powell on Drums, Queen Bee on Vocals, “Uncle Quacker”Jonathan Sale on Bassy, Miggy Twiggy on Guitar, Jordan Mofo Jones on Bone, Shane 18 Wheeler on Saxaphone and Chris boom Pow on vocals and most average guitar. We’ll be playing, laughing a lot and having a bodacious celebration…please come so we can keep buying more stuffed bears! This party will be doubled down with bangingness with the tubular sounds of our favorite psychedelic reggae funkers The Hypnotic Conquest! If you know our history with these cats, you’d know we family! This will be a get down, throw down, come up for the ages—expect the unexpected, you never know who will make an appearance but we always, 100% of the time, have the best friggin time! It’s your chance to dance, $10 at the door, tip your bartender! Much love!”
House Of Fools w/ Fancy Gap
House of Fools is an American rock band hailing from Greensboro, North Carolina. Formed in the early 2000s, the group blends elements of classic rock, indie, and Southern influences to create a sound that’s both nostalgic and fresh. Known for their rich harmonies, energetic live performances, and melodic songwriting, House of Fools released their debut full-length album, Live And Learn, in 2007 under Drive-Thru Records and their self released sophomore album, Versus The Beast in 2012. Over the years, they’ve gained a loyal regional following and continued to evolve musically while staying rooted in their North Carolina origins. Fancy Gap, the debut album by Stuart McLamb (The Love Language) and Charles Crossingham, captures life’s essence in a country-tinged, radio-ready sound. From poignant reflections on life, death, and love to celebrations of joy and triumph, each track delves into universal themes. Their heartfelt songwriting, honed through their experiences, takes center stage. During the pandemic, McLamb and Crossingham retreated to Crossingham’s cabin in Fancy Gap, Virginia, where they nurtured their musical collaboration. Inspired by ’90s radio rock and classic country, they crafted the album over two years, blending their influences into a cohesive sound.
Pony Bradshaw w/ Jesse Fox
In her2008 filmic auto-portrait, Beaches of Agnès, artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda says, “if we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” For Varda, those landscapes were beaches. For singer-songwriter Pony Bradshaw, they’re the hushed hills and deep valleys of North Georgia. And from the first aching thrum of “Ginseng Daddy,” the opening track off his latest record, Thus Spoke the Fool, he’s inviting us back to that beautiful, haunted place, his home place, to visit again. Similar to his previous two offerings, the tracks on Thus Spoke the Fool feel less like songs you hear, and more like places you go, odes to the land and language of Appalachia, lyrical topographies paying faithful homage to the region where Bradshaw put down roots nearly two decades ago. The songs are lush with mountain laurel and tobacco leaves, taking listeners to mill towns, and American Legions, and Mineral Bluff. They’re flushed with the flood of the Coosa and Hiawassee Rivers, tense with the tenor of a buck dancer’s tapping feet. Recorded in part in the sanctuary of an old church outside of Athens, Georgia, Thus Spoke the Fool is a taut,10-song collection, and the third and final installment in a trilogy that began with 2021’s critically lauded Calico Jim. What began as a bluegrass record alchemized during recording sessions in Nashville to create a more hybrid, textured sound, heavy on fiddle and pedal steel. Beyond any strict genre classifications, however, it’s mountain music that bears witness to a maligned and misunderstood region by a songwriter forever contending with the notion of what it means to call a place home.
Wheatus (acoustic) w/ Gabrielle Sterbenz
Born and bred on an island as densely populated as Montreal just without any of the culture, Brendan B Brown did what Andrew Carnegie did, he beat the odds. Taking the unprecedented decision of forming a band in New York City at the age of 22, Brendan took his father’s nickname of “wedus” and his mother’s penchant for rare fabrics and formed Wheatus. Wheatus became known in some circles as the greatest band to play the Mercury Lounge and eventually signed to Columbia Records who released the first two Wheatus records, kinda. After the major label life and the success of Wheatus’s debut single “Teenage Dirtbag,” Brown continued Wheatus and released five more records before the band’s renaissance would take place after “Teenage Dirtbag” was covered by One Direction. Since then, Wheatus, still led by Brown, has enjoyed a renewed interest with their songs covered by the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Sza, Jax, Ruston Kelly and touring with such acts as Dashboard Confessional, Living Colour, Everclear, and many more. Brendan B Brown has taken the success in stride and wants you to join the ride. Get in. Join the Dirtbag. GABRIELLE’S BIO: Americana singer-songwriter (and longtime member of Wheatus), Gabrielle Sterbenz, was born into a house filled with Patsy Cline. At school, she sang in a Gospel Choir, hoping to sound like Aretha Franklin. In the evenings, Gabrielle would come home and drown her sorrows in Ella Fitzgerald. When this could sustain her no longer, she hatched a plan to graduate early, headed to New York City, and began working as a backing vocalist on late night television, for Robbie Dupree, Mike Doughty, Lorde, and most notably, Wheatus (of Teenage Dirtbag fame), a band she’s been a member of since 2011. Last year, Gabrielle performed her own music in every state in the lower 48, as direct support on Wheatus’ US acoustic tour, while also serving double-duty in the band. She is currently releasing music from her second record of original music.
