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.

FREE Fathers Day show with Dan Davis Trio

Come spend the afternoon with The Dan Davis Trio! The bar opens at 12pm and the music starts at 2pm!

Into the Fog (Fog Tuesday Series)

Join us for Fog Tuesdays at Flat Iron, our new monthly residency with Into The Fog! Winners of the 2021 MerleFest Band Competition, Into The Fog is a genre-jumping string band located in Raleigh, North Carolina. With its members having various backgrounds ranging from bluegrass, country, punk to funk, Into The Fog creates a musical melting pot of sounds in an acoustic/newgrass setting. The band is made up of Brian Stephenson on Vocals and Guitar, Winston Mitchell on Vocals and Mandolin, Derek Lane on Vocals and Bass, and Connor Kozlosky on electric guitar.

Sam Fribush Organ Trio

Keyboardist Sam Fribush is on the frontlines of the Hammond organ revival. His debut release, the SF Organ Trio, was produced by Charlie Hunter and recorded over quarantine in North Carolina. Recently, Fribush became a member of Hiss Golden Messenger and will be touring with Sumbuck in 2023. Currently based in Greensboro, NC, Fribush has brought his fonky, soulful vibe home to the town where he was born and raised.