Marcus Horth and The Mantras w/ Amycus
A special MantraBash PreParty and Reunion featuring Marcus And The Mantras live at Flat Iron with special guests, Amycus.Doors at 7pm Show at 8pm$10
Psycodelics w/ Niervash
Awarded City Paper’s 2021 Soul/R&B Act of the Year, The Psycodelics’ flavor of Black American music has blended foundations of blues, jazz and disco with fresh funk rock. With a stage presence as multifaceted and emotive as its lineup, the already-potent sound retains even greater magic to make you get up and dance.
George And(y) The Sams
Come see this super group featuring George Sluppick, Andy Ware, Sam Frazier, and Sam Fribush! Doors at 7pm and Florence Dore will kick it off at 8pm.$10
Leilani Kilgore
“The blues are in good hands as long as Leilani Kilgore is strutting her stuff.” – Classic Rock History A Nashville transplant hailing from the West Coast, Leilani Kilgore serves aggressive hard-hitting rock with a touch of meaningful blues and fearlessly honest emotional expression. Her versatile writing has earned her headlining slots in legendary clubs such as the High Watt and Smith’s Olde Bar, and placed her as the opener for renowned musical acts like Buddy Guy, and The Dead Daisies (feat. Glenn Hughes and Doug Aldrich). “Leilani Kilgore has something to say and trust me, you will be listening.” – Keyline Magazine Leilani’s music has allowed her to perform internationally in multiple countries and has grown in a well-oiled machine of a live performance. With in-your-face vocals and fearless solos, this isn’t an artist you want to miss.
Skylar Gudasz with Riggings
With her luminous voice and captivating songcraft, Skylar Gudasz has won the admiration ofsome of the most distinguished artists in music. The Durham-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has shared stages with the likes of Ray Davies, Cat Power and Sharon VanEtten as part of the Big Star’s Third tribute concerts, opened for the likes of Television,Teenage Fanclub, and Mountain Goats, and appeared as a background vocalist on albums bySuperchunk and Hiss Golden Messenger, including a TV debut with the latter on Late Nightwith Seth Meyers.Gudasz released her full-length debut Oleander in 2016 at which point The Bitter Southernerdubbed her “the Joni Mitchell the South never had.” On the eve of pandemic lockdown in 2020,Gudasz delivered her sophomore album Cinema, recorded between famed April Base in EauClaire, Wisconsin and in the lush forests of the rich NC music scene. The release summonedpraise from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR’s All Songs Considered, and MOJO who described itmost concisely as "a career-making star turn.” Gudasz’s highly anticipated third album, recordedwith Ari Picker (Dante High, Lost in the Trees), is due later this year.In addition to her solo career, Gudasz is active in collaborations, including an “Ask Me Anything”tour with Kate Rhudy and Libby Rodenbough, an event at which the songwriters answeraudience questions about love and play songs in response. The trio was recently featured aspart of Southern Songbirds: The Power of Women in Country Music series at the NorthCarolina Museum of History, a collaboration with PBS and the Grammy Museum
Tyler Ramsey with Darren Jessee
Praised by NPR, Stereogum, WNYC and The Huffington Post, Tyler Ramsey is a multi-instrumentalist equally at home playing guitar, piano, keyboards, bass and percussion, but is best known as a talented finger-style guitarist and singer-songwriter. In addition to having released three acclaimed solo albums, Ramsey is perhaps most immediately recognizable, until his recent departure, as the guitarist and a co-writer in Band Of Horses, having played with them since 2007, prior to the release of their breakthrough album, “Cease To Begin.” A well-established and acclaimed guitar player and singer in the burgeoning western North Carolina music scene, where he calls home, he first learned to play music on piano before moving to the guitar. Ramsey grew up listening to and studying country-blues guitar players like Mance Lipscomb and Mississippi John Hurt, and American finger pickers like John Fahey and Leo Kottke, absorbing their sound and making it all his own. His fourth solo album, which was recorded in Louisville, Kentucky, during tour downtime and completed this past summer, is set for release in 2018. The new songs are lush and full, and realized with help from a list of friends old and new, adding gorgeous vocal harmonies, strings, and guitar counterpoints.
Unheard Project GSO
SunQueen And The Soular Flares with Royal Jelly
SunQueen Kelcey has two things at the center of her music: body positivity and radical self love. These are more than ingredients to her lyrics, they are her soul; and she has such a strong calling to these tenets that watching her at the mic is more than a concert. Her musical style is a genre-bending collage of hip-hop, soul, rock, and contemporary R&B, call it soul-rock. She delivers an energetic and passionate performance complete with her live band The Soular Flares. Specializing in blending her original music with Top Billboard Hit covers, she is the center of a universal sound that aims to unite her listeners over a shared experience. Grab you a cup of Greensboro’s finest. We’re the funk, the skunk and the junk. Those who know know Royal fucking Jelly goes all night long. We are a liberated group of libertines liberating libido’s wherever we go. You need it we got it, do what you wanna do, be who you wanna be, if it’s all good by you it’s all good by me. Don’t mind our freak flag as it flies. See you at a show.
Year Of The Knife – CANCELLED
YEAR OF THE KNIFE – GOFUNDME (please donate!)https://www.gofundme.com/f/yotk-recovery-fund
Grady Spencer & The Work
Grady Spencer & the Work is a band built from blood, tears, and sweat. A whole lot of sweat. Grady was born and raised in the West Texas plains, where he learned not only the value of a hard day’s work, but also how to play the acoustic guitar. Following his love for the music of Jack Johnson, Grady would quickly realize that the music that he was playing was not only a hobby but a dream that he would be chasing for the rest of his life. In 2013, Grady would meet Blake Sager, the original and long-withstanding drummer of the band. Several roster alterations and changes over the years would eventually lead Grady to also find and convince bassist Johnny Hatcher and lead guitarist Tyler Martin to join the band as well. Since late 2017, this group of close friends and teammates have been working together to craft two full-length albums and countless live shows across the country. Recorded in Fort Worth, Texas over the tumultuous times of post-lockdown 2021, Wait is the brainchild of Grady Spencer brought to life with the help of the band and producer Reese Murphy. Cleanly arranged, tight guitars meld together with deep funk grooves to create a sound that is vaguely familiar yet excitingly new all at the same time. The songs themselves are a collection from all the way back to the days when Grady first met his wife into the madness and confusion of 2020.
