WTJU Welcomes Dom Flemons

We hope you are looking forward to Dom Flemons with Matty Metcalf & Alex Caton on Sunday, October 19th at The Southern Café & Music Hall! The Southern would like to extend an invitation to try their new and improved menu prior to the show. Those that have dinner at The Southern before the show will be allowed to enter the venue first for best choice of seating! The restaurant opens for dinner at 6 PM, doors at 7:30 PM. See you soon!

Dom Flemons is the "American Songster," pulling from traditions of old-time folk music to create new sounds. Having performed music professionally since 2005, he has played live for over one million people just within the past three years. As part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, which he co-founded with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson, he has played at a variety of festivals spanning from the Newport Folk Festival to Bonnaroo, in addition to renowned venues such as the Grand Ole Opry. 

In July 2014, Dom released his third solo record with Music Maker Relief Foundation, and his first since leaving the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Prospect Hill finds Flemons digging deeply into ragtime, Piedmont blues, spirituals, southern folk music, string band music, jug band music, fife and drum music, and ballads idioms with showmanship and humor, reinterpreting the music to suit 21st century audiences. He was featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and his new album has received praise from The Boston Globe, Paste Magazine, Living Blues Magazine, and more.