An Evening With Driftwood
An Evening With Driftwood
Daytona w/ Housewife + White Toledo
Daytona is a 4-piece rock and roll band formed in Boone, North Carolina. Comprised of Sam Willard (vox, guitar), Dolan Ramseur (lead guitar, vox), Zachariah Carter (bass), and Wolfgang Willard (drums), audiences are sure to leave a Daytona show energized by the group’s captivating storytelling and raw performance. Combining rock with alternative country, blues, and pop sensibilities, Daytona transcends genres and evokes the classics with a set of fresh ears. Daytona’s latest single “Aunt Phetamine”, is available for streaming right now on all platforms.
Cedric Burnside w/ Drew Foust
The blues is music for all time—past, present, and future—and few artists simultaneously exemplify those multiple temporal moments of the genre like North Mississippi’s CEDRIC BURNSIDE. The Mississippi Hill Country blues guitarist and singer/songwriter contains within him the legacy and future of the region’s prescient sound stories. At once African and American and southern and […]
Hank, Pattie & The Current- CANCELED!!!
Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians– Hank Smith on Banjo and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw on fiddle– join forces with some of the most versatile musicians in the Carolinas to create modern, American, acoustic music featuring the full range of their talents as composers and arrangers. The band is on tour regionally and nationally in support of their new album, RISE ABOVE onRobust Records. The band makes use of traditional bluegrass instrumentation in a nontraditional way to present original music to the listener that goes beyond the limits of the idiom. The arrangements take on a new level of maturation that follows in the footsteps of Bela Fleck, Mark O’Connor, Chris Thile, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, and Tony Rice. Hank, Pattie & The Current want to pick up where seminal crossover groups like The Punch Brothers, Strength In Numbers and the ever-changing Bluegrass Allstars call home. The music is vocal and instrumental, allowing the band to experiment with arrangements and tailor the compositions to become vehicles for exploration. Hank Smith plays banjo, Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw plays fiddle and is lead vocalist. The Current includes Billie Feather on guitar and Stevie Martinez on bass.
Folkknot w/ Jamie Collins
Folkknot was formed in early 2020 when a group of students at Wake Forest University met after a night organic chemistry lab and decided to form a band. That spring semester guitarist Grey Hyatt, accordionist Marcos Lammel, and violinist Charlotte Waugh practiced in a cramped Scales Fine Arts Center practice room, bringing to life a set of songs Grey was writing about the life of his late grandfather who’s love for the sea would become the central theme of the band’s debut work. Unfortunately after less than 2 months together the band was forced apart by the covid pandemic, but this presented an opportunity to record songs while the band waited to return in the fall. After 4 months of remotely recording songs bit by bit in each band member’s respective basement a collection of demos entitled ‘A Disease Called The Sea’ emerged and was released in early July. Unfortunately, once reunited during their fall semester a heavy schoolwork load forced Charlotte to give up her spot in the band. A friend of Marcos’s, cellist Nathan Faulk, filled the opening and the band began playing live shows in October of 2020 and recording a new set of demos in early 2021. After a lengthy recording process, the new lineup released the band’s sophomore effort “A Life Well Suffered”, their second collection of demos, in late July of 2021. The band is currently expanding it’s ranks, adding new instruments and sounds as they prepare for recording their third album slated for release in early 2024.
Bradley Turner & Friends ft. Keith Allen + John Colby Elswick
Bradley Turner and Friends w/ Keith Allen + John Colby ElswickLive at Flat Iron FREE SHOW!!!! Thursday, December 14, 20239pmNO COVER
Logan Halstead and Willy Tea Taylor
LOGAN HALSTEAD Logan doesn’t like to put himself in a box sonically or stylistically. Still, many would characterize his work as Appalachian/Americana music. Above all, his songs are raw and honest, and the writing is wrapped in wisdom one might only think could be conjured by someone two decades older. While the masses clamored for more content, Logan took his time and found the right partners for his debut album. He decided to cut his project at the famous Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. He was accompanied in production by the one and only Lawrence Rothman (Amanda Shires, Margo Price, Angel Olson, and many more). When asked about the recording process, Logan said, “It was a great experience. Lawrence is top-notch. They made me feel comfortable just to go in and do what I do, and to get to record in a place like that is a dream come true, especially for a holler kid.” Rothman, who also saw success at a very young age, was a perfect fit because they understood Logan’s position and angst which allowed Logan to express himself freely. In 2020, Logan released “Dark Black Coal” on YouTube, which has since amassed almost 6 million views. The success of that single has allowed Logan to build a great fan base through YouTube, touring, and opening for artists like Zach Bryan, Charles Wesley Godwin, Town Mountain, and many more. With the record releasing over a year after he recorded the album, Our Vinyl came into his life at the perfect time. In a collaboration with Our Vinyl, Logan released a taste of his upcoming project with a four-song EP that has amassed him over 120,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. With the success of “Dark Black Coal,” it’s no surprise that Logan chose this as the title track for his first album. Logan signed with Thirty Tigers and is excited to partner with them on his release. The release date is slated for May 5, 2023 and he will be touring those songs beginning in May. Expect to see Logan’s name on festival billings, support tours, and in a town near you. “I want my music to keep evolving and to improve my craft. I want to be the best I can be and give my fans shows to remember,” says Logan. Like all musicians, he hopes to achieve a successful career, but don’t expect Logan Halstead to change who he is or what he believes in to succeed. Authentically himself, Logan strives to always be honest and true to his fans.WILLY TEA TAYLORWilly Tea Taylor, the son of a cattleman, was born and raised in the “Cowboy Capital of the World”, Oakdale, California. In the past year or so, after thousands of miles driven and countless songs written and played, he has suddenly and rightfully found himself standing shoulder to shoulder in the ranks of today’s great Alt-Country musicians. From his early days co-fronting The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, to singing solo in countless cowboy bars, Willy Tea has never lost the vision of what he knew could be. And now with The Fellership or solo, Willy Tea Taylor, he has taken his version of that hero hang on the road.
The Deluge with Justin Fedor
Their debut record Cryin’ on the Vine, features “StrangeWorld’..which won best R&B song of 2010 from the international JohnLennon Songwriting Contest.Their second release ElephantGraveyard features the talents of Kofi Burbridge (Tedeschi/Trucks Band) and showcases the group’s vast musical range, capturing moments of spinster story telling to raw and unfettered revelry.When Page HS & UNCG grad Justin Fedor left Greensboro in 2001 for Scottsdale, AZ, he thought he was leaving music behind him as well, but a chance meeting with Neil Young in Columbus, OH reset his priorities & shortly thereafter Fedor moved back east to settle in Charlotte, NC in 2005 where he started the now defunct Americana rock outfit, The New Familiars. Since then, Fedor has toured the US sharing the bill with many artists including Gregg Allman, Levon Helm, Taj Mahal, Del McCoury, Sam Bush, Bob Margolin, Tim O’Brien, The Infamous Stringdusters, & more. Fedor also plays bass with psychedelic rockers Ancient Cities, who have been featured at some of the nation’s most prestigious music festivals including Newport Folk Festival & CMJ as well as regional favorites Shakori Hills & FloydFest. Fedor also toured as bass played for The Shinn Band alongside Rock’N’Roll Hall of Famer Dave Krusen (Pearl Jam) & Christopher Thorn (Blind Melon). In 2013, Fedor created Tribute To Benefit, a concert series that continues to raise thousands of dollars annually for Levine Children’s Hospital & Roof Above, Charlotte’s frontline nonprofit combatting homelessness. Fedor continues to write, record, & perform in the Americana music world both as a solo artist & with his band, The Denim Denim.
The Pink Stones with Colin Cutler And Hot Pepper Jam + She Returns From War
“This record was me trying to take everything I love as a listener and a player and shove it all into one thing without it sounding random, ”says Hunter Pinkston, former punk turned cosmic country auteur, describing ‘You Know Who’, the boisterous, ambitious sophomore album by his band The Pink Stones. Ostensibly they play country music, yet all the pedal steel sobs, the two-steppin’ rhythms, twangy harmonies, and lyrics about broken hearts and long days on the road are launch pads for wild experiments and unexpected stylistic forays. “There’s obviously a lot of country and rock in our music, but there’s a lot of gospel and soul and psych and dub. I really wanted to get all of those things living peacefully together in one record.”**A Greensboro, North Carolina-based songwriter toting a guitar, banjo, and harmonicas, Colin Cutler’s music spans the breadth of Americana, from oldtime to blues to roots rock, with lyrics informed by the earthy storytelling traditions of the South, his Pentecostal upbringing, and literature. **Hailing from the historically rich city of Charleston, South Carolina, americana music artist Hunter Park is defining what it means to not only live in the modern south, but to be a trans woman and artist within this landscape. Combining folk-infused vocal melodies and evocative lyrics that capture the unfiltered human experience, She Returns From War is taking her seat in the Americana music world with grace, strength, and passion. The project shows no signs of slowing down. From opening for Bernie Sanders at his presidential rally in Charleston, to performing at national festivals like Stagecoach and High Water Festival and with artists such as Pat Benatar, Band of Horses, and Nikki Lane, She Returns From War is sharing with the world what the modern south should look and feel like: inclusive, compassionate, unfiltered, and loving.
Awen Family Band with Africa Unplugged
Awen Family Band is a collaborative effort offering an inclusive musical back to Earth experience, a place to commune with our roots and reconnect with the source. The Awen Family Band believes in letting the music and moment flow freely without force, guiding us to transcendence, deeper understanding and gratitude towards life. These values are reflected in the songwriting of Tim Husk, with uplifting lyrics that try to break down the mysteries of the universe and celebrate the infinite joys of life. Every Awen Family show is an ever changing collection of musicians from other touring acts that share the same understanding that we are just vessels for the great spirit and energy to flow through us, to hear the song in the life around us and bring it into reality to share with everyone. Every new musician to leave their touch on the Awen Family songbook offers a new perspective to the music and what they hear in the songs, making every Awen Family show an opportunity to hear the songs presented in a new light as well as new songs that form around certain groups of musicians. Building Community, Expanding Circles and Spreading Love
