PATIO SHOW: Mother Marrow
– ALL AGES- PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDMOTHER MARROW Hailing from the mountains outside of Asheville, NC, Mother Marrow is the musical project of Charity Cimarron (they/them). The sound is elemental, powerful, ritual folk music that can call up tears, or send shivers down your spine. Bewitching and poignant, Mother Marrow’s music and imagery capture the voices of the elements, and the creatures that dwell underground. A musical journey into the depths…these tunes have teeth and tenderness. Mother Marrow is born out of Cimarron’s deep love of the natural world, striving towards beauty and truth, and an understanding of the painful, and magical process of transformation.
PATIO SHOW: Sylmar
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDSYLMAR Sylmar is an indie-rock stoner jazz quintet taking the rock genre to the meat grinder. Through contagious hooks and crafty crescendos, Sylmar songwriting conflicts with cutting rhythms that counter and combine, drive and float, easy to digest but difficult to harness – all the while charming audiences with their increasingly popular feverish live performances. In response to Sylmar’s sophomore LP “Glass Ladders”, City Beat journalist, Brian Baker wrote “With a soulful Vampire-Weekend-meets-Radiohead sound, Sylmar’s new “Glass Ladders” is their best album to date.
PATIO SHOW: Day & Dream
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING (FIRST COME FIRST SERVED) DAY & DREAMSelf described star gazers and forest dwellers, Day & Dream creates music that sounds like your favorite warm fuzzy blanket. Long time artists, musicians & singer/songwriters, Peter Frizzante & Abby Amaya, initially met in NYC, but didn’t start their indie-rock dreampop shoegaze band until they moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Abby’s roots are in California 60s coastal pop, while Peter’s is post-punk, indie-rock. Working together, the now husband-wife team showcase their admiration for sun-soaked sonic landscapes, lo-fi lounge, neopsychedelia, jangly guitars, jazz tones, and melodic pop structures. Reverb soaked and layered with soft whispery vocals, the result is an energetic and memorable reverie. Peter, the morning person, and Abby, the night owl — their band name is a nod to their opposite sleep schedules.The pair is often writing music or lyrics at home in between work and daily chores, finding inspiration in the human condition & the pain and joy of life. The band has played with many different local drummers (Jake Cavinder, Matt Hendler, Mike Fasano) and bass players (Marcos Waldheim, Erik Jan, Lowell Hobbs, Matt Tobia, Daniel Hyman). Their first single, “Nocturnal Creatures” was recorded at El Rancho Morbido Studios(Black Mountain, NC) & debuted in July 2018. This was soon followed by their first full length album, “With Every Breath You Die” in February 2019, recorded at Standard Electric Studios with Damon Moon & mastered by Greg Hendler in Atlanta. They went back to the studio in Julyof 2019 to record a handful of tracks at Echo Mountain Studios (Asheville, NC). The singles were engineered by Kenny Harrington & mastered by Jason NeSmith of Chase Park Transduction (Athens, GA) & Geoff Pesche of world renowned Abbey Road Studios (London).After canceling most shows booked for the last two years, the band has stayed busy indoors with numerous live streams & shooting music videos. They’ve had singles featured on several compilations: Green Witch Records (NYC), Sunday Records (Chicago), Stereoactive Media(Austin/Brooklyn), Shoegaze Pilipinas (Philippines), Holy Crap Records (Black Mountain, NC), Editoris (Panama), OIM Records (Oakland, CA), Bummer Recordings (Chattanooga, TN), and Shiny Happy Records (Indonesia). They’ve also been featured, reviewed, and Interviewed oncountless radio shows, playlists, news outlets & blogs, including Indie & Folk Radio, European Indie Music Network, God Is in the TV, Luna Magazine Collective, Indie Cronique, Destroy/Exist, Business Mirror, ABS-CBN, Abduction Radiation, Ausfarhrt, Pitch & Prose, Look at MyRecords, Pretty Decent Music, Luna Collective, We Love Lo-Fi Music, Simon Saxon, Indie Italia, Melodic Mag, MCCFunk, Impose Magazine, ORYL, WNC Original Music, DKFM, Drowned in a Sea of Sound, Lizzie Romain, Aylou, Holy Crap Records, DE Music, LeviathanFM, Mountain Xpress, Last Day Deaf, Al Son of Marketing, Diggin Radio Show, Visioner, & more.In 2021, they signed with Lilystars Records (ADA, Warner Music Group), owned by Clementine Castro (Oranges & Lemons, The Camerawalls).
PATIO SHOW: The Moon & You
– ALL AGES- PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVEDTHE MOON & YOUThe Moon and You is an Americana duo based in Asheville, NC. Cellist Melissa Hyman and guitarist/banjo player Ryan Furstenberg sing in “voices that sound like they were made for one another” (Bill DeYoung, Connect Savannah). Each is an accomplished songwriter with a distinctive and memorable style. Though they bring to the table the seamless vocal blend and heartfelt lyrics characteristic of folk music, this ain’t your basic folk duo; audible influences include jazz standards, classic country, indie rock and classical music. All of these sources combine to find sweet harmony in The Moon and You’s warm and unconventional arrangements. Perfect for fans of Shovels & Rope, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, and Norman & Nancy Blake.
PATIO SHOW: Lew Card
– ALL AGES- PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVEDLEW CARD Lew Card is not just a songwriter, he is a song. He is a story. Born the son of a wealthy business man in the hills of East Tennessee, he had it all laid out for him. A legacy, riches, romance, country club swimming pools, the top tier of the social elite. But after a brief modeling career in the early nineties he made the decision to leave it all behind to make hundreds of dollars a year in the music business. He grinded for countless hours over his craft. Holed up in his bedroom smoking weed and listening to the likes of Bill Monroe and Neil Young for days on end. It was there where he would learn to emulate the different styles of pickin’ and lyric. For years, this proved to be a bountiful experience, albeit not a profitable one. Enter Texas. Joining the circus in Austin for most of the beginning of the new millennium, Lew really learned how to incorporate its techniques into the business of music. The illusion of magic, mystery, grand scale, and good plain ole’ trickery was just what he needed to skyrocket his career. Using these practices, Lew has amassed over 1000 people on all his social networks combined. To date, has sold hundreds of copies of his 4 albums and continues to fill 25 seat rooms across the country night after night. All this is what gives Lew Card the drive to give the listener the best experience ever!
PATIO: Adrianne Blanks & The Oracles
– ALL AGES- PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDADRIANNE BLANKS & THE ORACLESAdrianne Blanks & The Oracles are an Asheville based trio, comprised of vocals, guitar, keyboard, and bass, often singing in tight three part harmony. Musical influences, Rhiannon Giddens and Dolly Parton, this trio plays folk and vintage country. After a fully funded Kickstarter, this witchy woman released her debut EP, “Words Are Spells” this August. She has had the good fortune to play all around Western North Carolina and beyond, including the Asheville, Chattanooga, and Nashville Vegan Fests, Arbor Evenings at the North Carolina Arboretum, and Asheville FM 103.3. Her song “Tell me You Love Me” has been played on WNCW 88.7. Follow her on Spotify to hear her latest releases, and head to www.adrianneblanks.com to sign up to the Adrianne Blanks email list for upcoming show dates.
PATIO SHOW: Doss Church & The Unholy Noise
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDDOSS CHURCH & THE UNHOLY NOISE Doss Church & the Unholy Noise is an Asheville based, Alt-Country quartet with Doss on vocals/acoustic guitar/harmonica, Jay Moye on keys/guitar, Ed Ransdell on percussion, and Alex Beldon on bass. Doss was a 2019 finalist in Asheville’s esteemed Brown Bag Songwriting competition, was selected to perform at Asheville’s Open Folk in November of 2021, and regularly plays festivals, house concerts, and venues large and small across the southeast.
POSTPONED: PATIO: The Black Twig Pickers
– ALL AGES- PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDTHE BLACK TWIG PICKERSThe Black Twig Pickers are a group defined by their forward thinking approach to a type of music most often associated with times gone by. Over the course of eight full-length records, including collaborative releases with Jack Rose and Charlie Parr, a split LP with Glenn Jones, and numerous EPs and singles, the group has established itself as a collection of dedicated practioners of old time music re-cast and shaped by their appreciation of modern improvisation, drone, and punk. While not at odds with the experimental scene that has fostered them or the old time circles they travel in, The Black Twig Pickers thrive in the in-betweenness of those two worlds, proving that the exploration of the outmost bounds of sound and the exploration of decades old tradition and community aren’t as different as one might think.Rough Carpenters, which was recorded in the same two-day session as 2012’s Whompyjawed EP, can be seen as an inward-gazing foil to that EP’s long-form hoedown epics. With the addition of Sally Anne Morgan on fiddle to the trio of Mike Gangloff, Isak Howell, and Nathan Bowles, dance has become a more prominent part of the group’s formula. It wasn’t until Morgan joined the band that the band actually began to dance onstage. Also, on this album the group strays a bit farther outside their intensely local Southwest Virginia tradition than earlier records, incorporating a few more tunes with origins in Kentucky (“Banks of the Arkansas”) and West Virginia (“Little Rose”). The group’s repertoire is constantly growing as they turn to first-person sources, older musicians that were brought up in the old time scene and in some cases the children and families of deceased respected practitioners, and unreleased archival recordings passed among musicians. And while local and regional history is ever present in the music The Black Twig Pickers play, they turn songs that are many decades old into living artifacts, released from the restrictions of era by the personal convictions of the musicians.This spirit of ecstatic abandon is conveyed through the percussive elements of The Black Twig Pickers’ music and more importantly, through a spontaneity and an unrehearsedness the band wears as a badge of pride. As Gangloff explains, “It’s not the melody, it’s the moss.” The sharp twang of the banjo, a spontaneous holler, a foot stomping along in time, and other seemingly incidental sounds become all important. Like the band’s previous Thrill Jockey full-length Ironto Special, Rough Carpenters was recorded with absolutely no overdubs and in as few takes as possible. The Black Twig Pickers are indeed rough carpenters, building unpolished but finely crafted records that embody the spirit of a timeless old-time scene.Isak Howell — guitar, mouth harp, vocals Mike Gangloff — fiddle, banjo, vocals Nathan Bowles — banjo, washboard, bones, fiddlesticks, banjosticks, vocals Sally Anne Morgan — fiddle, hambone, vocals With Joseph Dejarnette — bass and vocals
PATIO SHOW: Darrin Hacquard
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDDARRIN HACQUARDDarrin Hacquard writes songs that connect. He’s funny, tortured, melancholy, and joyous. Sometimes he’s all of these at once. It’s an uncanny gift for empathy. He can see characters for not just what they are, but what they hope to be. His sonic landscapes are as diverse as the lyrical subjects that populate his songs. From Old Time, to Psyche-Rock, to Country, to Spaghetti Western, Darrin builds stories in a way that only he can, and tells them with unflinching vision and kindness.
CANCELED: PATIO SHOW: Drunken Prayer
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEDDRUNKEN PRAYER Drunken Prayer transcends the bounds of Americana music. Morgan Geer writes songs that could emerge from a highly blissed-out biker bar or a swampy ashram. The newest Drunken Prayer album is 2022’s The Name Of The Ghost Is Home. For the last year Morgan Geer has been working from his home studio in Asheville, NC with Paul Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Royal Trux), building on tracks initially recorded in New Mexico at Empty House Studios, home of doom metal bands like OM and Sleep. The end result evokes an ominous Acid Western feedback-and-driftwood aesthetic. The latest Drunken Prayer releases have been 2019’s acclaimed LP Cordelia Elsewhere mixed by Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, REM) and the ambitious 17 minute long death-raga, Electric Daddyland from 2021. Over the past two years, before the pandemic, Drunken Prayer played hundreds of shows across 18 countries and across the US at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon and San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall. Geer’s music has been featured on AMC, NPR, WFMU and SiriusXM. On the side Geer is the lead guitar player for alt-country goths Freakwater and writes for different artists including the Brooklyn rock and soul phenom Bette Smith. Morgan has also been touring internationally, opening for and often joining the eccentric Handsome Family. Morgan Geer lives in Asheville, NC.
