SOFAR Greensboro Comedy
A curated comedy night in an intimate Greensboro space, featuring stand-up comedians and a musical guest. Expect close-up performances, a relaxed room, and a fresh way to experience comedy and live music in the city. THE LINEUP: KnowKapp – Host Nathan Baker – Comedian J-Timber – Musical Guest Meme Manning – Comedian
Beggar Weeds + the CADETS
Bigger Weeds “In the 1980s, Beggar Weeds were Jacksonville punks sleeping under trucks, opening for X, recording with Michael Stipe, and skinny-dipping with David Berman. In a new, career-defining reissue, they’re the long-missing link between R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo.” Casey Epstein-Gross, PaSt€ Magazine “Itchy and intense… the ramshackle attitude of The Replacements with a downhome Creedence-like sense of place” MOJO Magazine In the late 1980s, the whole of the Southern alternative scene knew Beggar Weeds as the up-and-coming speed-folk outfit co-signed by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. fame and destined for an imminent break into the big time. They spent most of their time shredding at the legendary venue Einstein A Go-Go and hightailing it from the near-constant fights in Jacksonville’s “blighted area” as fast as their wingtips could take them. Nearly 40 years after the release of their first and only EP, Sure Pants Alot, Beggar Weeds has somehow found themselves poised to take back the spotlight that so cruelly evaded them by barely an inch the first time around. The CADETS As the Cadets began rumbling away in 1995, Cash Carter built his frenetic, thundering drum style around Chuck Smyth’s fast-twitch searing lead rhythms and melodies fertile with nervous energy. Inside those urgent drums and angular chords came their melodic hooks, catchy and strong, laden with unexpected twists. They released a 7”,The Search for the Edible Man (1997), and their first full-length record, The Cadets (1999). As the century drew to a close, the Cadets took on bassist Chad Matheny (Emperor X), a dynamo of creativity and sonic agitation. Also joining was Isaac Bear, brilliantly color washing in the open spaces with expertly placed keys and guitars. The result was a delicately balanced collage of daydreams and found sounds dangling on the hilt of a steel edge. This lineup toured Japan and all along the US east coast until 2007. The Cadets’ music continues to be delightfully peculiar and full of immediacy, arriving at your ear having skidded briskly across the table yet perfectly upright and nary a drop wasted. Their sonic experiments produce songs that possess a rare energy that conjures the early days of rock & roll, sci-fi adventures, and diary entries never intended for the light of day. Lyrics filter larger themes through a tilted and tinted lens of wide-eyed fantastic reverie. Brainwashed spies, mythical chimera, desperate refugees, and jilted lovers all become protagonists and truth tellers.
Abigail Dowd’s living room series w/ Charley Lowry
Charly Lowry (Lumbee/Tuscarora) is an Indigenous singer-songwriter, musician, and artivist whose music lives at the crossroads of Americana, soul, roots rock, and blues. Originally from Robeson County, North Carolina, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee, her work is rooted in storytelling, cultural resilience, and the enduring connection between home, heritage, and the journeys that shape us. A Season 3 American Idol Top 32 finalist, Lowry has performed at some of the nation’s most respected stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Grand Ole Opry, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She has shared the stage with acclaimed artists including Rhiannon Giddens, Pura Fé, and Rissi Palmer, and serves as a Governor of the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy. Her debut Nashville single, “Purty Dress (Pretty Dress),” marks the beginning of a new creative chapter, reflecting both her artistic evolution and the journey that brought her from Robeson County, North Carolina, to Music City. Inspired by that journey, Lowry is also documenting life as an independent artist through the forthcoming visual series, Nashville Bound. Whether performing with guitar, Native hand drum, or with a full band, she creates performances that are intimate, soulful, and cinematic, inviting audiences into songs of identity, resilience, and belonging. Abigail Dowd Our fearless host who still enjoys music most when it’s embedded in real life, sitting around a fire or every third Tuesday night at the Flat Iron. Each month Abigail invites musician friends to fall into space with her and the audience for what she describes as an evening in her adopted living room. They collaborate, share new songs, play old favorites, make things up, make you cry, make you laugh and most of all make you glad you came
Abigail Dowd’s living room series featuring Caroline Cotter
Caroline Cotter Caroline Cotter’s sunlit songs honor the countless ways of being human. With her honeyed voice and disarmingly honest lyrics, Cotter sings about connection, nostalgia, gratitude, loss and wanderlust. Lyrics like, “Find me somewhere out on the road / Take me into your heart and into your home,” make perfect sense from a touring artist who has played over 1000 shows in 46 states and 19 countries. She has performed at churches, art galleries, barns, yoga studios, punk bars, Parisian living rooms and even a schooner off the coast of Maine. Everywhere she goes, her oracular songs elicit emotion and spark insight—medicine for our collective longing. Abigail Dowd Our fearless host who still enjoys music most when it’s embedded in real life, sitting around a fire or every third Tuesday night at the Flat Iron. Each month Abigail invites musician friends to fall into space with her and the audience for what she describes as an evening in her adopted living room. They collaborate, share new songs, play old favorites, make things up, make you cry, make you laugh and most of all make you glad you came
Fancy Gap w/ Young Mister
Los Acoustic Guys
Being Followed, Dai Cheri, and Stepback Jumper
Ellis Bullard
In the wake of 2024’s Honky Tonk Ain’t Noise Pollution, Ellis Bullard has left no doubt that country music is still yearning for the true-blue honky-tonk experience he brings to the stage and studio. Listen to Bullard, and you’re listening to a life of barnstorming, hard living, and layers of musical influences. “I’m just a person, just a guy out there having a good time and trying to make sure other people are too,” Bullard says. “I give my time to people, and I think that means a lot to them. I’m genuinely trying to forge relationships and have meaningful interactions with all the fans I meet on the road.” After sharing the stage with Texas mainstays like Shinyribs, Reckless Kelly, Randy Rogers and Cody Jinks, Bullard has come into his own, and these days finds himself headlining clubs and dance halls from coast to coast. For his part, Bullard knows he’s on to something, and he’s enjoying the ride.
Official NCFF after party w/ Dance From Above featuring Marley Carroll
Official North Carolina Folk Festival after party with Dance From Above featuring Marley Carroll
TeleVolt w/ Le Smoking
