{"slides":[{"media_title":"The Southern DRAG Show!","media_tagline":"","event_body":"This event is 16 & over only.  No exceptions.\n\nThe Southern DRAG Show!\nTHE drag show of Charlottesville\n\nA new drag tradition begins at The Southern Cafe and Music Hall. The Southern DRAG Show! is serving face, fantasy, and personality on a proper stage in the heart of downtown Charlottesville.\n\nHosted by JACKIE OF ALL TRADES AND DARLING NIKKI, also featuring ROYALTY RESIGNZ, and CYLESTE ENTITY. These performers are not here to play it safe. They are here to turn looks, sell the fantasy, and make sure every eye in the room is watching.\n\nThis is THE drag show of Charlottesville. Bring your dollars, your applause, and your best energy.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/040426-Southern-Drag-Show-web-banner-9a24697e7f.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/the-southern-drag-show-2","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 4<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"9:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/040426-Southern-Drag-Show-thumbnail-67c7430981.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"SGGL\/Speidel, Goodrich, Goggin & Lille","media_tagline":"","event_body":"SGGL started at the University of Virginia in 1983 when Rusty Speidel, Tom Goodrich, and Michael Goggin formed SGG. In the mid-80's, Michael Goggin left the band to attend law school and was replaced by Michael Lille. SGL played the Mid-Atlantic college circuit for several years and after a brief hiatus, the band reformed (both Michaels included) as SGGL. Through 35+ years together band members have maintained successful recording and touring careers while balancing solo projects, families and "real life" 9 to 5 occupations.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/041726-SGGL-660x340-7f8a8d78ae.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/sgglspeidel-goodrich-goggin-lille","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 10<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/041726-SGGL-180x180-875c0530e9.png","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Billie Marten US Tour 2026 - Presented by WNRN","media_tagline":"with Squirrel Flower","event_body":"Billie Marten loves to leave her mark on a good book—underlining important passages, scribbling ideas in the margins, folding the corners of pages into dog ears to mark her place. The 10 songs of Dog Eared serve that purpose, telling the story of who she was as she wrote and recorded it, cleaving her adolescence from her adulthood in order to move forward. She is the songwriter who finds wisdom in horses and encourages self-reflection while realizing she has barely begun her own. She is the singer who makes the chorus of “Goodnight Moon” as beautiful as a lunar corona and smartly lets dissonance slip between her voice and the band around her as she watches something she loves disappear during “Crown.” Marten is a consummate singer-songwriter who has dared to push beyond the limitations of that form and make a stunning record that marks a new page, suggesting what comes next through the strength and beauty of what’s right here.\n\n \n\nWith Dog Eared, Billie calmly posits herself at the top of the tree of not just British contemporary folk artists, but with British songwriters at large\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0411-Billie-Marten-web-banner-d78bf2cb3c.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/billie-marten-us-tour-2026","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 11<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0411-Billie-Marten-thumbnail-2a41957edc.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"J. Roddy Walston and the Automatic Band ","media_tagline":"With Jesse's House","event_body":"This show was originally scheduled for 2\/19.  All previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date and no additional action is required.\n\nJ. Roddy Walston and the Automatic Band - Sweat, Rock, Piano\n\nJ. Roddy Walston is a force of nature. If his hits like Heavy Bells is are a war cry, then the deep cuts like Boys Can Never Tell are a tactical cosmic retreat. For some, his music is a form of religion, psychedelic in its intensity, transformative in its grip on the body, shaking loose something primal that’s been buried too long. It’s not about thinking, It’s about moving, feeling, surrendering. His influences are a riot of contradictions: Kurt Cobain’s fury, Nilsson’s fractured sweetness, Zeppelin’s power, and somewhere in there a perverted nod to William Onyeabor’s lonely calculator funk. Critcs try to box him in, but Walston can’t be contained—he does chaos, and his live shows do damage, but fortunately his songs can pay the tab. Catch him and his band before he burns it all down again.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/021926-J-Roddy-660x340-1dda239ecb.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/j-roddy-walston-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 17<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/021926-J-Roddy-180x180-066292f8a5.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Jay Webb","media_tagline":"With Shaylen","event_body":"Country artist Jay Webb writes songs that hit like a gut punch. He grew up bouncing between the backroads of North Alabama and the city in South Alabama, using music to make sense of the chaos around him. What started as a way to process a turbulent childhood quickly became his purpose –- gritty storytelling layered over genre-blurring beats, delivered with zero filter. He began recording demos in high school and never let up, releasing track after track on his own and building a following from the ground up. His lyrics cut deep, his voice carries the scars and his sound refuses to stay in one lane. Webb doesn’t try to clean up the mess – he leans into it, and has a good time doing it.\n\n\nThe genre-blurring artist pulls from a wide range of influences, pairing the weight of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams with the edge of Juice WRLD and Post Malone. It’s not traditional country, and he doesn’t want it to be. He calls it “music for real people with real problems” and his fans know exactly what that means. In 2022, a viral TikTok launched his music to a wider audience and since then he’s racked up more than 415M streams with a growing legion of fans over 2M strong.  With standout tracks like “Down Here,” “Bury Me With Bourbon” and “Love Me Tonight,” – which led into his debut album “Where To Find Me” -- Webb is charging forward and the numbers prove people are listening. \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/041826-Jay-Webb-660x340-84d227bbd8.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/jay-webb","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 18<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/041826-Jay-Webb-180x180-035d19eed3.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Fantastic Cat ","media_tagline":"with Jilette Johnson","event_body":"Dubbed “the Harlem Globetrotters of Americana” by Rolling Stone and “The Wu-Tang Clan of folk rock” by The Village Voice, Fantastic Cat is, much like pornography, better seen than described. Featuring four widely lauded singer\/songwriters who trade vocals and swap instruments on nearly every tune, the band emerged to broad critical acclaim with the release of their irreverent debut, The Very Best of Fantastic Cat, which earned the group their first national TV appearance, sold out headline dates around the US and Europe, a performance at the Sundance Film Festival, and a song in the Paramount+ series Tulsa King. Two years later, they followed it up with the similarly celebrated Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat, which featured an appearance from Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz, landed the band dates with Dawes and Lucius, and prompted WFUV to declare them “one of the best Americana and rock bands to tumble out of New York over the last few years.”\n\nNow, Fantastic Cat has defied the odds—and their therapists’ strong urging—to return with their third and most-likely-to-prompt-a-lawsuit-from-the-Meat-Loaf-estate album yet, Cat Out Of Hell. Produced by the band and mixed by D. James Goodwin (Goose, Kevin Morby, The Hold Steady), the collection elevates Fantastic Cat’s trademark blend of craftsmanship and chaos to new sonic heights, capturing the freewheeling, lightning in a bottle energy of their must-see live show and channeling it into a ramshackle house party full of existential searchers, desperate romantics, and barstool philosophers. \n\nIndividually, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume including appearances everywhere from the New York Times and the Tiny Desk to Bonnaroo and Cayamo. NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” Pitchfork called Brian Dunne’s new album “wise and poetic,” declaring that “every song sounds like his life depends on it.” Paste proclaimed Don DiLego's latest record a "stunner,” and Rolling Stone hailed Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland."\n\nTogether, they form a four-headed songwriting hydra, one with the lush harmonies of CSNY, the playful wit of The Traveling Wilburys, and the relentless interpersonal strife of the Eagles.\n \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0419-Fantastic-Cat-web-banner-807f6a3d67.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/fantastic-cat-2","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 19<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0419-Fantastic-Cat-thumbnail-fe1a868fac.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"MARIS","media_tagline":"With YSA","event_body":"MARIS is a Los Angeles–based, Montana-born singer\/songwriter, emerging as “pop music’s next Mega Star” [Los Angeles Times]. A playful DIY ethos animates her songs, social content, and live shows. Blending heartland rock with glam-pop bombast, MARIS crafts arena-sized, sugar-rush choruses built around elastic vocals and diaristic songwriting.\n\nHer breakout collaboration with Caroline Kingsbury, “Give Me A Sign,” earned praise from PAPER as “anxious and electric,” landed on Spotify’s Best Pop Songs of 2025, and helped fuel her first sold-out headline show at DC9. FLOOD calls “Body Is On Fire” a “cathartic” kickoff to her “vibrant” new phase.\n\nMARIS has performed at Boston Calling alongside Ed Sheeran, Chappell Roan, and Reneé Rapp; placed #4 on Stereogum’s Top Pop Songs of 2025 with “SUPER F\u2605CKING MEGAST\u2605R”; and been included in Spotify’s Fresh Finds Class three times. Elton John featured “Mary + I” on his Rocket Hour radio show, comparing MARIS to both Lady Gaga and Freddie Mercury.\n\nBest experienced live, MARIS ensures audiences feel free to be their happiest, truest selves. She told the Los Angeles Times, “At my show, you’re gonna jump. You’re gonna dance. You’re gonna be involved, whether or not you want to.” She has toured nationally with The Wrecks, Maude Latour, A R I Z O N A, Anna of the North, and Caroline Kingsbury.\n\nShe has also been featured in Rolling Stone, LADYGUNN, Ones to Watch, Under the Radar, and Wonderland, and launched her latest single, “Body Is On Fire,” with a Vevo DSCVR performance.\n\n\n\tinstagram.com\/maris.wav\n\ttiktok.com\/@maris.wav\n\tx.com\/mariswav\n\tfacebook.com\/mariswav\n\tyoutube.com\/@marisofficial\n\tmarisofficial.com\n\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/maris-web-banner-e8eb14207d.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/maris","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 21<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/maris-thumbnail-1ea59a0866.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"No BS! Brass","media_tagline":"","event_body":"NO BS! BRASS\n\nDirect from Richmond, Virginia, NO BS! Brass is a bone-rattling 11-piece powerhouse filled with brass, drums and soul.  Fusing the sound of New Orleans with the grit of modern funk, jazz, and rock, this creative collective delivers an high-octane performance that has captivated audiences from NPR’s Tiny Desk to the world’s most prestigious stages.\n\nNO BS! Brass brings a global reputation for "uncontrollable dancing" and raw, organic energy. They have headlined international festivals across  France, Belgium, Italy and Germany, and rocked legendary venues like Lincoln Center and the Monterey Jazz Festival.\n\nDon’t miss the band that SPIN calls "sternum-rattling." It’s loud, it’s real, and it’s—strictly—No BS.\n\nOfficial afterparty of the Tom Tom Festival. Ticket purchase required, admission is not included with festival badge. \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/nobs660-14c5225535.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/no-bs-brass-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 24<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/nobs180-9cf5239083.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"An Evening With Martin Sexton ","media_tagline":"Live Wide Open Tour","event_body":"Martin Sexton tours in support the 25th anniversary of Live Wide Open - the critically-acclaimed double vinyl live album. The show will include these fan-favorites as well as some new material and surprise covers.\n\n \n\n \n\n“The real thing, people” \n\n—Billboard\n\n \n\n“Soul-marinated voice” \n\n—Rolling Stone\n\n \n\n“Mr. Sexton as an impassioned performer can bring women and men to tears when they see him live” —Wall Street Journal\n\n \n\n“The best live performer I’ve ever seen.” —John Mayer\n\n \n\n“Master of dynamics, reducing a room to silence with his blustering baritone, then teasing that silence with a fluttering falsetto."  \n\n—Acoustic Guitar\n\n \n\nOfficial afterparty of the Tom Tom Festival. Ticket purchase required, admission is not included with festival badge. \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/042526-Martin-Sexton-660x340-00ba9f4352.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/an-evening-with-martin-sexton-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 25<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/042526-Martin-Sexton-180x180-6ac136e335.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Arts Fishing Club & Harvey Street","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Arts Fishing Club is more than just a band; they are storytellers, explorers of the human condition, and purveyors of living life boldly. An ethos demonstrated by frontman Christopher Kessenich’s first 4.5 month tour in which he walked 1600 miles along the east coast from Maine to Atlanta to Nashville, played 60 shows, and slept in strangers’ living room floors.\n\n \n\nThe boldness that compelled such an adventure is felt in AFC’s electrifying live shows where the band weaves the raw energy of rock and the introspective lyrical honesty of folk to create a sound that is timeless and refreshingly original.\n\n \n\nWhether performing in sold out small clubs or on festival stages (Bonnaroo, Summerfest, Treefort, Mile of Music), their engaging stage presence and ability to connect with fans makes their live performances a cornerstone of their success.\n\n \n\nWith a growing fanbase, commitment to pushing their creative boundaries, and an infectiously entertaining live show, Arts Fishing Club is poised to make a lasting impact on the indie music landscape.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/042826-Arts-Fishing-Club-660x340-b391c01f7a.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/arts-fishing-club-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 28<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/042826-Arts-Fishing-Club-180x180-b788be18f5.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Yarn","media_tagline":"","event_body":"You might expect a band that calls itself Yarn to, naturally, tend to spin a yarn or two. “That’s what we do, we tell stories, live and in the studio, truth and fiction”,singer\/songwriter Blake Christiana insists. “We don’t always opt for consistency. There’s a different vibe onstage from what comes through in our recordings. There’s a difference in every show as well, you never know what you’re going to get.”\n\nYarn’s ability to persevere ought to come as no great surprise, especially for a band that spent two years honing their chops during a Monday night residency at the famed Kenny’s Castaway in New York’s Greenwich Village. In effect, it allowed them to rehearse onstage, mostly in front of audiences that often ranged in size from five to a hundred people on any given night. 10 studio albums followed -- Yarn (2007), Empty Pockets (2008), Leftovers Part One (2009), Come On In (2010), Leftovers Part 2 (2011), Almost Home (2012), Shine the Light On (2013), This Is The Year (2016), and Lucky 13 parts 1 & 2 (2019). The band then took to the road, playing upwards of 170 shows a year and sharing stages with such superstars as Dwight Yoakam, Charlie Daniels,  Railroad Earth, Marty Stuart, Allison Krauss, Leon Russell, Jim Lauderdale, Leftover Salmon, Amos Lee, The Lumineers and many more. They performed at any number of prestigious venues -- Mountain Stage, Daytrotter, the Orange Peel in Asheville, the Fox Theater in Boulder, the 9:30 Club in D.C, South by Southwest, the Strawberry Festival, Rhythm and Roots, Meadowgrass, Floydfest and so much more, eventually surpassing 1,000 shows, half a million miles and performances in nearly every state. They’ve driven nonstop, made countless radio station appearances, driven broken-down RVs and watched as their van caught fire. They’ve paid their dues and then some, looking forward even as they were forced to glance behind.\n\nIndeed, the accolades piled up quickly along the way. They have landed on the Grammy ballot 4 times, garnered nods from the Americana Music Association, placed top five on both Radio and Records and the AMA album charts, garnered airplay on Sirius XM, iTunes, Pandora, CNN, and CMT, been streamed millions of times on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon, and also accorded the “Download of the Day” from Rolling Stone. Shine the Light On found shared songwriting credits with John Oates (the Oates of Hall & Oates fame), and when audiences expressed their admiration, it brought the band a populist cult following of diehard devotees, popularly known as “the Yarmy.” \n\nIt’s proof positive that the Brooklyn and Raleigh based band have made their mark, and in dealing with their emotions, scars and circumstances, they find themselves in a position to share those experiences with others who have juggled similar sentiments.\n\nAs Yarn look forward to their next 2 studio releases in 2023, Blake looks to establish himself more as the songwriter he’s always been, and not the pseudo bluegrass band, bar band or jam band, that Yarn often gets immediately lumped into.  Although all those elements of music exist in the Yarn catalogue and their live performances, Blake’s number one priority is and always has been “the song”.  These next 2 releases are without a doubt Blake’s most personal, polished, and best of Yarn’s career so far. \n\n \n\nThe beginning of the journey to these 2 albums began around April of 2022 when Blake booked a solo show at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN (a nod to Townes Van Zandt's 1986 live show there and ultimate release) with the intention of making a live record.  But he wanted it to be songs none of the fans and attendees had ever heard before. The problem was he hadn't written most of them yet.  He was at his crossroads, uninspired, bored, exhausted and fairly insecure about his entire career up to that point. But he got to work, and got more inspired with each new song he wrote.  These songs all tell a story individually but they also tell a story as a whole, a songwriter and musician ready to dive deeper into the music and the art for a greater result that he believes most anyone can appreciate, relate to and enjoy. \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/040326-Yarn-660x340-2dd4014250.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/yarn-7","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Apr<\/span> 30<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/043026-Yarn-thumbnail-a0f9c1d2d8.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Deau Eyes, June Baby & Chlo\u00eb Ester","media_tagline":"with Valentin Prince","event_body":"Deau Eyes is a storyteller at heart, finding deep connection through songwriting, music, and performance. A firm believer in collaboration, she surrounds herself with a rotating band of artists, always serving the song and elevating the moment. Her 2022 album Legacies resonated widely, earning the Newlin Music Prize and landing her on NPR’s Slingshot Artists to Watch list. Named Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40, she is deeply rooted in her creative community, constantly learning, working, and growing alongside fellow artists. Through Deau Studio, she shares her passion for music with over 25 students, fostering a space where storytelling and song go hand in hand.\n\n\nJune Baby blends catchy hooks, complex melodies, and vocal agility into indie pop that hits different. Honest songs with heart, shaped by a love for storytelling and sound. New EP coming soon—this is pop with depth, and June Baby is just getting started.\n \n\n\nCharlottesville native singer-songwriter Chloë Ester pours herself entirely into each of her distinctively devastating songs informed by indie, emo, punk, electronica, and pop influences. She delivers crushingly vulnerable lyrics with a clear, magnetic voice and blistering directness, obsessing over fear, trauma, love, and its absence in the charmingly sarcastic and self-deprecating manner that has earned her the moniker ‘Melanchloë’ in the local music scene.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050126-Deau-Eyes-x-June-Baby-x-Chloe-Ester-web-banner-2-e0fcd6f72b.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/deau-eyes-june-baby-chloe-ester","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 1<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050126-Deau-Eyes-x-June-Baby-x-Chloe-Ester-thumbnail-bcccd439a0.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Melt","media_tagline":"with Claire Ernst","event_body":"Pulsing with the energy of their hometown, New York City, ‘If There’s a  Heaven’ (2024) is the debut album from indie band Melt. Hear the band  simultaneously at their most airtight and freewheeling—evoking the raw,    communal spirit of Fleetwood Mac as well as the modern, danceable  hooks of MUNA. Recorded live to tape with producer Sam Evian (Big  Thief), the eleven tracks span existential, feel-good pop (“Plant the  Garden”), classic love ballads (“Your Name”) and lush, soulful rockers  (“Heaven”). Melt’s debut is a joyous, timeless soundtrack for coming of  age and finding oneself and one’s community.\n\n \n\nMelt formed in 2017 and cut their teeth touring on the heels of their viral  single “Sour Candy.” Called “one groovy superorganism” by NPR, the  band’s ecstatic live set has led them to supporting slots with a wide  array of artists from Grouplove, Lawrence, My Morning Jacket, and  Grace Potter.\n\n \n\nBack with their first release since ‘If There’s a Heaven,’ the band’s new  single “Stay for the High” is 2025’s “Yellow”—an early aughts  heartbreaker with the edge of a queer rock band.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050226-Melt-web-banner-aa68e5d95c.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/melt","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 2<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050226-Melt-thumbnail-f64c646338.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"The Hip Snacks","media_tagline":"With Choose Your Own Adventure","event_body":"Fresh off their acclaimed debut album, What Lies Ahead, The Hip Snacks have captured their infectious energy in a way that’s both timeless and urgent. Since its release, their star has skyrocketed. They’re not just a local gem anymore—they’re a national sensation, tearing through a national tour that’s packing venues and leaving crowds buzzing. Comprised of vocalist Kara Durante, bassist Ben Suarez, guitarists Ricky Feria and Felipe Cantuaria, drummer Dylan French, and keyboardist Adam Schini, The Hip Snacks are more than a band; they’re a movement, a feel-good revolution that’s growing faster than you can keep up. Catch them live, and you’ll understand why their audiences leave craving more. You don’t just hear The Hip Snacks—you experience them. And trust us, you deserve this snack. \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050626-Hip-Snacks-web-banner-deaeac774c.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/the-hip-snacks","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 6<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050626-Hip-Snacks-thumbnail-240e23d520.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Bella White","media_tagline":"","event_body":"The third album from Bella White, A Sign In The Weather is a body of work steeped in the life-altering magic of its origins. While touring in support of her widely lauded sophomore LP Among Other Things (and sharing bills with the likes of Dierks Bentley, Tyler Childers, and The Red Clay Strays), the Calgary-born singer\/songwriter left her home on Vancouver Island and moved to New Orleans, where she soon became happily enmeshed in the city’s vibrant indie-rock scene. As she immersed herself in the unfettered and open-hearted creativity of her newfound musical community, the 25-year-old lifelong musician began assembling a suite of songs that stretch far beyond her bluegrass roots and arrive at a moodier and more audacious breed of folk\/Americana. Made with her close-knit circle of collaborators, A Sign In The Weather both echoes the homespun nature of its creation and signals a powerful evolution in her one-of-a-kind artistry.\n\n \n\nCo-produced by White and Ross Farbe (a New Orleans-based producer\/songwriter\/musician who’s also worked with Esther Rose and Drugdealer), A Sign In The Weather marks a departure from the more lavish scale of Among Other Things—a 2023 release produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty) and recorded with esteemed musicians like Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek. This time around, White joined forces with her longtime bandmate Patrick M’Gonigle (on fiddle) and local musicians like drummer Sam Gelband, bassist Gina Leslie, guitarist Nick Corson, and vocalist Maddy Kirgo, dreaming up a nuanced yet potent sound that spotlights the singular character of her enchanting vocals and graceful guitar work. Also featuring contributions from Farbe (on guitar, percussion, organ, and synth), pianist Duncan Troast, and Nashville-based pedal-steel player Nikolai Shveitser, A Sign In The Weather ultimately brings a bold new energy to the sophisticated musicality White first cultivated by taking up guitar at age eight (thanks in part to the influence of her father, a Virginia-born bluegrass musician who raised her on classic country and old-time music).\n\n \n\nThe latest installment in a catalog that began with her 2021 debut album Just Like Leaving, A Sign In The Weather also uncovers new layers of White’s soul-searching songwriting—an element praised by major outlets like Rolling Stone and NPR (who stated that “Sometimes the minute you hear a voice, you know it’s for the ages”). “New Orleans is such a musical city, and the experience of being around a lot of songwriters in particular has been so inspiring to me,” she notes. With its subtle interplay of poetic introspection and stream-of-consciousness outpouring, the album embodies a raw urgency that stems from White’s real-time processing of a period of intense change. To that end, A Sign In The Weather takes its title from one of the first songs written for LP: “Without Making A Sound,” an in-the-moment reflection on the painful confusion of letting go and moving on. “Right around when I decided to move I also ended a relationship—it felt like a chapter of my life was closing, and I was experiencing a lot of sadness and guilt and other big feelings,” White recalls. “When I wrote that song I was traveling somewhere that’s usually very warm, but it was like the gray gloominess of the Pacific Northwest had followed me there. It felt like it brought everything full circle to make that the album title, especially because making the choice to shake up my life really opened the floodgates for all the songs to come.”\n\n \n\nRecorded at a shotgun house near the Mississippi River, A Sign In The Weather bears an unhurried quality that immediately transports the listener into a more serene and radiant state of mind. As shown the LP’s lead single “Little Things,” the deliberate intimacy of the album-making process imbued every aspect of White’s artistry, allowing for a more direct transmission of emotional truth. Weary but wide-eyed, the softly galloping track precisely captures the many dimensions of existential paralysis. “When I started that song I was in a limbo phase where I knew I was about to go through some big changes, but they hadn’t been mapped out for me yet,” says White, who began writing “Little Things” while still living on Vancouver Island. “To me it’s very much about recognizing that you’re not doing what you need to do, but feeling stuck and overwhelmed by the thought of getting from point A to point B.”\n\n \n\nIn its lived-in meditation on impermanence and transformation, A Sign In The Weather inhabits a pensive intensity on songs like “Stuff”—a heavy-hearted look at living with your decisions, graced with free-spirited harmonies and Shveitser’s spellbinding pedal-steel work. “I went on a trip with some of my best friends, and experiencing those dynamics again made me realize how much I’d changed,” says White. “We were out drinking martinis, having a fun girls’ night, and I started sobbing at the dinner table because everything felt so different. I think ‘Stuff’ is about recognizing the changes you’ve made and processing what that means, instead of just getting caught up in the excitement of your new life.” Next, on the gritty but tender “Dream Song,” White ruminates on the often-hidden burdens of the past. “That song came from grappling with anxiety and questions of self-worth, and asking whether I’m going to carry my past experiences in relationships into this next chapter of my life,” she says. “At the same time it’s recognizing that I’m in a beautiful relationship now, and in some ways it’s the first love song I’ve ever followed through with.”\n\n \n\nA work of immense sensitivity, A Sign In The Weather endlessly showcases White’s gift for turning complex emotions into songs that unfold with an undeniable ease. On “False Start,” for instance, she vents her frustration at the pettiness of mindless chatter, evoking a glorious catharsis at the song’s gorgeously rambling outro. “I wrote that after the floods in North Carolina and a few other catastrophes related to climate change,” White explains. “It came from a place of feeling so sick of hearing people gossip about surface-level drama when it felt like there were more important things to talk about.” Meanwhile, the sweet and breezy “All My Friends” paradoxically emerged from a moment of restless exasperation. “I was at a music festival and felt like there was a lot of posturing going on, and I noticed how I tend to shut down in those environments,” says White. “‘All My Friends’ is about recognizing that I don’t ever want to participate in any kind of situation where I’m not being totally authentic to who I am.” And on “Pink Living Room,” White contemplates certain heartache in her past and sinks into the lovely tranquility of her current circumstances. “I was sitting in the pink living room in the house where I live now, and it was like I was in a cocoon where I felt so safe and cared for,” she says. “This pink living room felt like a physical manifestation of the gentleness I was experiencing, and the song became like a conversation where I’m telling a past version of myself, ‘Check it out—this is what it’s like now.’”\n\n \n\nAs White reveals, the journey of uprooting her life has proven to be both wonderfully disorienting and unexpectedly grounding. “Where I’m from is pretty much as far away from New Orleans as you could possibly go in North America, so it’s definitely a shock to my system sometimes,” she says. “There’s an incredible contrast between this swampy, sticky place and the mountains and the ocean back on the West Coast, and I find it really fascinating that you can feel very much at home in such different places.” And in discovering a profound sense of belonging in her new surroundings, White has unlocked a deeper understanding of her own values as an artist and musician. “I think if you have a musical community around you, people that you feel a comfort and connectivity with, there’s no need to go elsewhere or find other people to play with,” she says. “To me this album was a real labor of love and so empowering to make—it validated that I trust myself and trust my vision, and now I just want to keep doing it my way and keep working with people I believe in.”\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/bella660oops-eadaa9efd6.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/bella-white","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 8<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0508-Bella-White-thumbnail-5864f8161d.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Eddie 9V","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on his most recent studio album, Saratoga, released in November 2024 on the fabled Ruf Records label. A thrilling mix of Southern soul, blues, rock, and funk, Saratoga proved to be a gamechanger: a road trip-ready record filled with razor-sharp observations, vintage textures, and raw humanity. It also marked a major career milestone, with Eddie 9V’s soulful sound reaching hundreds of thousands of new fans across the globe.\n\nNow signed to Easy Eye Sound — the Nashville-based label founded by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys — Eddie 9V is preparing to release a brand-new album in 2026. And the momentum keeps growing. Since Saratoga dropped, Eddie’s monthly listeners on Spotify have exploded from 8,000 to a peak of over 800,000. Songs like “Halo,” “Saratoga,” and “Love Moves Slow” have become SiriusXM Spectrum-certified tracks, earning steady spins and major audience love.\n\nBut this rise is years in the making. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local Georgia stage, Eddie 9V (born Brooks Mason) has been an artist to watch. First cutting his teeth in cover bands and regional blues circuits, he made the leap to full-time frontman with a name that couldn’t be ignored. “I wanted to start from scratch – and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.”\n\nThat leap paid off. His early albums Left My Soul In Memphis (2019) and Little Black Flies (2021) turned heads for their wild energy and vintage flair. 2022’s Capricorn was a breakout moment, earning rave reviews from Classic Rock, The Guardian, and more. It debuted at #1 on the blues charts before being dethroned by Bonnie Raitt — “a cool story to be able to say,” Eddie laughs.\n\nBy the time Saratoga arrived, Eddie 9V had evolved into a full-spectrum songwriter, tapping into deep wells of soul and storytelling alongside his brother and longtime collaborator Lane Kelly. Much of the album was recorded at their Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta, with additional sessions at Denver’s Crown Lanes Studio. From the disco-tinged horns of the title track to the fuzzed-out dreamscape of “Delta,” it’s a record that widened the lens without losing the grit.\n\nNow with a major label partner, national tours, SiriusXM airplay, and streaming growth that shows no signs of slowing, Eddie 9V is poised for the next chapter. A new album is on the horizon. The band is sharper than ever. And if Saratoga was the ignition, what’s coming next is the open highway.\n\n“I’m already writing new songs,” he says. “You never stop.”\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050926-Eddie-9v-web-banner-5f5ff18e8f.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/eddie-9v-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 9<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/050926-Eddie-9v-thumbnail-70d23780b1.png","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Andrew Marlin & Josh Oliver","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Andrew Marlin & Josh Oliver (of Watchhouse) have been playing and touring together for over a decade in an array of configurations with countless different collaborators. For the first time, they’re hitting the road to share their music as a duo. These special hometown shows will feature a mix of Andrew & Josh’s original songs, alongside a number of covers and traditionals.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0514-Andrew-Marlin-Josh-Oliver-web-banner-2-4d26fbd539.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/andrew-marlin-josh-oliver","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 14<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0514-Andrew-Marlin-Josh-Oliver-thumbnail-2-a97b4b5a1a.png","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Magoo","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Magoo are a new progressive bluegrass band from Denver, CO.  In just over a year and a half since forming, the band has been selling out shows all across Colorado, supported Paul Cauthen and Nikki Lane, now touring nationally as a headliner, and supporting Kitchen Dwellers in Q1 2026. \n\nFestival Highlights: WinterWondergrass Steamboat 2026, BajaGrass 2026, Tico Time Bluegrass Festival, Rapidgrass Bluegrass Festival, UllrGrass Music Festival, Rhythms on The Rio Festival, Campout for the Cause, South Park Bluegrass Festival, Grand Lake Folk Festival, Huck Finn Jubilee, Palisade Bluegrass Bash.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/051526-Magoo-web-banner-d35df26da5.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/magoo","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 15<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/051526-Magoo-thumbnail-bcf26b3df3.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Alex Angelich Release Party","media_tagline":"with New Boss and 7th Grade Girl Fight","event_body":"Alex Angelich celebrates the release of her new record on Saturday, May 16, 2026. New Boss and 7th Grade Girl Fight open the show.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/051626-Alex-Angelich-web-banner-683bd59ba0.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/alex-angelich-release-party","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"May<\/span> 16<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/051626-Alex-Angelich-thumbnail-535ee3657d.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Tanael Joachim - The Alien Everywhere Tour ","media_tagline":"Hosted by Amber L. Hendrix & Ft. John Rademacher","event_body":"This event was originally scheduled for 2\/22\/2026.  All previously purchased tickets will be valid for the new date.\n\nFresh off a TV pilot filmed for FX, TJ is back on the road with new jokes about love, death, grief, and immigration. Come for the same fresh, incisive, and caustic wit, stay for the poetry of laughter to be found within the darkest of subjects.\n\nThe Alien Everywhere is TJ’s third standup tour. Following successful stints in North America and Europe, he’s ready to go again and bring jokes from the singular Haitian perspective to the rest of the English- speaking world. He’s also planning to add a few more countries, and even continents to this one. He hopes to see you in a room, wherever in the world you live, laughing together at the human condition.\n\nBio:\nTJ (Tanael Joachim) is a Haitian born stand-up comedian who is currently based in New York City. TJ has a very laid back, smooth, and conversational style. He jokes about race, society’s idiosyncrasies, and the inherent contrast between life in Haiti and America. He has made appearances on Gotham Comedy Live (AXS TV) and Good Day New York (FOX).\n\nTJ is a paid regular at the Comedy Cellar and Gotham Comedy Club in NYC. He has performed all over the world. He recently returned from a small European tour where he performed in English and French.\n\nHe has opened for Colin Quinn, Janelle James, Maria Bamford and Sean Patton. He has also been a featured performer at numerous festivals like Netflix Is A Joke Festival, SF Sketchfest and the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival.\n\nTJ is also an Op-Ed contributor for The New York Times. You can watch his special, JANUARY 3RD, on Amazon and listen to his album, SON OF HAITI, on all audio platforms. Check out his Don’t Tell Comedy set on YouTube.\n\nwww.tanaeljoachim.com\n\ntanaelj@gmail.com\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/tanael660-d9ff4e59ae.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/tanael-joachim-the-alien-everywhere-tour-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jun<\/span> 5<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/tanael180-e1a6af0446.png","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Tristen","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Credited as being a part of a group of indie rockers began reshaping the city’s musical vocabulary nearly two decades ago, Tristen is a Nashville-based recording artist who has built a reputation for crafting melody-driven songs rooted in clever, story-forward lyricism. \n\nRecorded in her home studio with her husband and longtime creative partner Buddy Hughen, her music showcases a striking intimacy and cohesion, with the two tracking most of the instruments themselves.  Playfully self-described as “refining unpopularity since 1982,” Tristen embraces eccentricity and independence of thought as core artistic values. \n\nHer discography charts an adventurous artistic evolution. Charlatans at the Garden Gate (2011) paired retro-pop hooks with lyrical storytelling, while C A V E S (2013) explored synth-driven, orchestrated arrangements. With Sneaker Waves (2017), she wove together folk-rock warmth, garage-tinged drive, and cinematic pop textures, the album’s title serving as a metaphor for life’s sudden turns.\n \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0610-Tristen-web-banner-eaedd1a72a.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/tristen","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jun<\/span> 10<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0610-Tristen-thumbnail-73809d6f48.png","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Caleb Caudle & The Sweet Critters","media_tagline":"With Murphy Campbell","event_body":"Caleb Caudle’s body of work is shaped from the ground up. His artistry has emerged through endurance and the steady momentum of a life in motion, carrying him from small stages in the North Carolina foothills he calls home, all the way to the Grand Ole Opry.\n\nNow, Caudle is entering a pivotal chapter – one of a profound culmination where life and art converge in powerful ways. The recent discovery that he and his wife are going to be first-time parents has added a new perspective, full of the responsibility and wonder that welcoming a child into the world brings.\n\nOn his new album, Heavy Thrill, this personal evolution mirrors his artistic journey. He takes full creative control, self-producing for the first time while recording at the storied Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tenn., where reverence for tradition meets his singular artistic vision.\n\n“For this record, I wanted to focus on embracing the patina of life,” says Caudle. “Our plans rarely shake out the way we want them to. This record is about doing the most with what you’regiven and weathering the storms.”\n\nWith the release of this album, Caudle is also launching his own label, aptly named “Handplow Records,” for the steel handplow painted a rusty red that sits in his great uncle’s yard, across the street from his home.\n\nThe humble tool was used for generations of tobacco farming in Caudle’s family, its wooden handles worn smooth by years of use stretching back to his great-grandfather. It represents the toil and dedication it takes to do things the hard way — and the sweetness that can yield.\n\n“Much like farming, my career has been about putting in the work,” Caudle says. “You can’t always control the weather, but you can show up every day and give it your best.”\n\nHis ascent has been gradual and steadfast, guided by experience rather than spectacle. The sound reflects where he comes from: the rich country traditions he was immersed in as a child, blended seamlessly with the indie music he grew up hearing on the radio. The result feels rooted yet restless — aware of its lineage but unafraid to wander.\n\nThe 10-track album captures life as it leaves its mark, embracing patience and quiet perseverance, as embodied in “Slow Growth” whose lyrics tell the story of the constant gardener, waking up each day and finding the ways to become a better version of yourself.\n\n“The Ballad of Country Ham” reckons with the cost of chasing dreams and the aftermath when they slip away, while songs like “Anxious” turn inward, grappling with the dissonance of staying empathetic in a world that seems to have forgotten what the word means.\n\nCaudle extends compassion toward flawed, deeply human lives—whether it’s the ethical gray spaces of survival in “Fox Got the Chicken” or the quiet resilience of a toll booth worker hanging on in “Toll Booth,” penned alongside two-time Grammy winner Natalie Hemby.\n\nTogether, these songs unfold as intimate portraits of individuals, moments, and moral crossroads, stitched together by empathy and hard-won self-awareness. At its heart, the record searches for meaning without certainty, dignity without recognition, and a hope that exists honestly within a fractured world.\n\nHeavy Thrill was mixed by Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) and mastered by Pete Lyman (Chris Stapleton, John Prine), two of Caudle’s favorite engineers, who have over 40 Grammy nominations between them.\n\nCaudle has brought his music to stages across the world, with standout appearances at festivals including Merlefest, Luck Reunion, Kerrville Folk Festival, Bourbon & Beyond, Stagecoach, and Cayamo, alongside a run of critically acclaimed albums praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, No Depression, and Rolling Stone. He has made multiple appearances on NPR’s Mountain Stage and has been a guest DJ on Sirius XM’s Outlaw Country, where his songs are in constant rotation. In the fall of 2024, Caudle reached a career-defining milestone, stepping into the circle at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.\n\nIf there were a Farmer’s Almanac for charting a music career, it is harvest time for Caudle, and with Heavy Thrill he is right on time as he redefines what it means to create, guide, and grow – taking ownership as both an artist and human being.\n\n_____________________\n\nPRAISE FOR CALEB CAUDLE\n\n“Caudle has always known exactly who he is, peeling back layers to express his fears and victories with tenderness. That his first-person songs are so gutting is no surprise — he’s always been good at that.” - No Depression\n\n“Everything’s going wrong, psychological and metaphysical, for the North Carolina songwriter Caleb Caudle in “Knee Deep Blues.” In a lean, modal, Appalachian-flavored tune, with his voice\n\nanswered by slide guitar, he’s pursued by demons, bloodhounds and birds of prey, and he can’t handle the evening news.” The chorus insists, “I don’t wanna think like that,” but there are still bleak verses ahead.”\n\n- New York Times Best Songs of 2024\n\n“The musical equivalent of high-proof bourbon – rich in flavor, with a subtle, satisfying bite.”\n\n- Rolling Stone\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/caleb660-3d674c4ce1.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/caleb-caudle-the-sweet-critters","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jun<\/span> 19<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/061926-Caleb-Caudle-thumbnail-b7b442695d.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Kaleta & Super Yamba Band","media_tagline":"","event_body":"There’s no show like a Kaleta & Super Yamba Band show. Blending deep grooves from '70s West Africa with raw funk and Afrobeat fire, this band turns every room into a dance floor and every crowd into a celebration. Led by legendary Afrobeat frontman Leon Ligan-Majek (aka Kaleta)—whose resume includes stints with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Adé, and Lauryn Hill—the band delivers a high-octane performance packed with rhythmic intensity, electric energy, and irresistible charisma.\n\nWhether on a big festival stage or in a packed club, Kaleta & Super Yamba Band bring the kind of show that leaves audiences sweaty, smiling, and shouting for more. This fall, they’re hitting the road to deliver their signature sound—tight horn lines, hypnotic percussion, and Kaleta’s powerhouse vocals—live and loud.\n\nWe've had a killer last couple of years for them with appearances at AFROPUNK, Green River Festival, Elements Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Festival d'été de Québec, Hopscotch Festival, 420 Block Party, Festival International de Louisiane and support for Common! \n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0621-Kaleta-web-banner-c030330eda.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/kaleta-super-yamba-band","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jun<\/span> 21<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"7:30pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/0621-kaleta-thumbnail-92fe4ecded.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Babe Haven","media_tagline":"with Slow Funeral","event_body":"Babe Haven is a queer punk band known for their riot grrrl attitude and nu-metal edge. Formed in Boone, NC by Lillie Della Penna and Naomi Poesel, the band creates anthems of empowerment and resistance brimming with raw aggression. With a mission to uplift femme, queer, and BIPOC voices, Babe Haven turns every show into a space of radical inclusion and catharsis.\n \n\nBabe Haven has been setting stages ablaze and selling out shows, quickly becoming an iconic staple in the modern punk scene, shared stages with the likes of Mannequin Pussy, Otoboke Beaver, Soft Play, Teen Mortgage, Pinkshift & Pollyanna. They have also appeared at popular tastemaker festivals such as L7’s Fast and Frightening Takeover, Punk Rock Bowling & Jorts Fest.\n \n\nTheir sophomore album, Nuisance, showcases a bold evolution in sound—blending nu-metal, thrash, and punk into a visceral, genre-defying statement that cements their place as one of punk’s most vital rising voices.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/BabeH660-bdcf21d739.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/babe-haven","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jun<\/span> 24<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/062426-Babe-Haven-thumbnail-5ac0914fb8.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Chris Acker & The Growing Boys","media_tagline":"Creekbed Carter Hogan","event_body":"In a genre full of tall tales and marketable lies, Chris Acker crafts candid songs – weaving his wit and woes into a body of work that exposes the stale plight of the American Songster to the honest, and sometimes hilarious, light of day.\n\nSince leaving his childhood home of Seattle, Washington, Chris Acker has called the haggard decadence of the New Orleans Americana world his purlieu. In the tradition of Guthrie and Prine, Chris lends a quavering voice to the half-rotten romance of the unremarkable and unrefined. Regardless if you’re sitting by a backyard fire on a muggy Louisiana night or standing stage-side in some far flung town, when you hear Chris Acker playing, you’re hearing the end result of countless hours of observing the masters of the craft…and the end result of repeating their mistakes.\n\nSome hard-times don’t happen behind plows, they happen behind dish-pits and cash registers. Some ramblers don’t feel the hot breath of freedom, just the smell of car exhaust and a couch for a bed. From the folk revival through the golden age of country music, deafened by punk shows and brass bands alike, Chris’s songwriting is a nod to the absurd yet muted brilliance that inhabits the molded corners of the bars he patrons and cratered street he treads, paired with a pained honesty that merits a long second look.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/072426-Chris-Acker-web-banner-2fe2a2c822.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/chris-acker-the-growing-boys","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Jul<\/span> 24<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/072426-Chris-Acker-thumbnail-b400965d2d.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Peter Antoniou","media_tagline":"Pretty Psychic Tour","event_body":"From amazing the judges on America’s Got Talent to headlining in Las Vegas and selling out London’s West End, Peter Antoniou’s mind-reading skills have astonished audiences around the world. Blending razor-sharp British wit with an uncanny ability to know exactly what you’re thinking, his shows are interactive, high-energy, and completely unforgettable. Join Peter as he reads minds, tells fortunes, and delivers big laughs live onstage.\n\n“You are a wizard” – Simon Cowell\n“Should be put on a pedestal above his competitors” – Broadway Baby\n“It’s unbelievable what you can do” – Howie Mandel\n“Sharp and Fast… a balance of humour and amazement” – The Scotsman\n“You are the total package” – Heidi Klum\n\nhttps:\/\/www.peterantoniou.com\/\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/peter660-2a82a2ce0c.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/peter-antoniou","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Aug<\/span> 7<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"7:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/peter180-81ac5530bc.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Robbie Fulks","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Robbie Fulks\n\nSinger-songwriter whose style melds bluegrass with a tinge of alt-country. Last release Upland Stories was nominated for two Grammys. New record Bluegrass Vacation debuted at #2 on Billboard Bluegrass Charts.\nFestival appearances include Hardly Strictly, Merlefest, Rockygrass, and more.\n“Robbie Fulks has a reverence for his roots, and while most artists that operate within the realms of Americana can claim the same, Fulks found the means of tying his passion and his purpose. His new album, Bluegrass Vacation, finds him coming full circle… the current album could be considered his most essential effort to date.” —Bluegrass Today\n“To say that Robbie Fulks has been one of the best singer-songwriters in American roots music over the last quarter-century would be correct, and maybe a little reductive, too; he’s one of the best writers in America, period.” —Variety\n“Fulks isn’t just one of the most original and compelling singer\/songwriters around, he’s also a mean bluegrass guitar picker.” —The Arts Fuse \n“One of the most observant and wry songwriters of the past two decades” – Rolling Stone\nWebsite | Facebook\nVideo: “Alabama at Night”\nVideo: “Let’s Kill Saturday Night”\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/1001-Robbie-Fulks-web-banner-d7cad25e95.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/robbie-fulks","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 1<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/1001-Robbie-Fulks-thumbnail-5c708845f1.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Carsie Blanton","media_tagline":"","event_body":"Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. A radical folk artist in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, her infectious melodies and lyrical wit keep listeners rapt while she conjures spirits of vaudeville, campfire singalongs, and punk rock. Blanton and her road-tested band deploy humor, camaraderie, and considerable musical muscle to enroll each audience in a rare vision of hope and solidarity.\n\nIn addition to writing and performing music, Carsie works as a political organizer and activist. In fall of 2025, she participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a direct action to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sailboat. In early October, after a month at sea, she was imprisoned in Israel for five days along with hundreds of her comrades.\n\nSoon after, Blanton released The Little Flame, a song of solidarity covered widely on social media during her detention. The Little Flame features background vocals from Irish band Ye Vagabonds and Carsie’s Palestinian\/New Zealander prison-mate Rana Hamida, and appears on her latest album, The Red Album Vol II.\n\nAfter two decades spent on the road, Blanton has amassed a dedicated fan base and a small menagerie of viral hits, and regularly sells out mid-size venues across the U.S. and Europe.\n\n2026 will find her touring heavily with her own band and in collaboration with Canadian folk-punk rabblerousers The Burning Hell, as well as continuing her organizing work with Artists Against Apartheid and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/101526-Carsie-Blanton-web-banner-0318f6f4fc.png","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/carsie-blanton-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 15<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/101526-Carsie-Blanton-thumbnail-20ca0a1136.png","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Mock Star's Ball 2026 - 2 Night Bundle","media_tagline":"To Benefit Shelter For Help In Emergency in honor of Whitney French","event_body":"THE 2026 MOCK STARS BALL IS HERE!\n\nBundle your tickets for BOTH NIGHTS!\n \n\nCharlottesville's Best Halloween Party Continues Bigger, Better & More Rockin Than Ever!\n\n \n\nCome see your favorite local bands perform sets as your favorite bands of all times!\n\nThis event is a local favorite that is far from a mockery. It can win over anyone.  A testimony to our rich music community - both silly & amazing.\n\nThe Southern is transformed into a Haunted Playground with 2 stages for 6-8 bands each night.\n\nOf Course, what makes it is you.  Your time to don your best Halloween - you!  Costumes are not required but highly encouraged & why wouldn’t you? \n\n \n\nThis event is a benefit for Shelter For Help In Emergency in Honor of Whitney French.\n\n \n\nInterested bands can apply for Mock Star's Ball 2026 here!\n\n\n*Lineup subject to change.  All sales final.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/Mock-Stars-Ball-2-Night-660x340-a83c1c538b.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/mock-stars-ball-2026-2-day-ticket","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 23 - 24<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/Mock-Stars-Ball-2-Night-180x180-1a7acb4a26.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Mock Star's Ball 2026 - Night 1","media_tagline":"To Benefit Shelter For Help In Emergency in honor of Whitney French","event_body":"THE 2026 MOCK STARS BALL IS HERE!\n\n \n\nCharlottesville's Best Halloween Party Continues Bigger, Better & More Rockin Than Ever!\n \n\nCome see your favorite local bands perform sets as your favorite bands of all times!\n\nThis event is a local favorite that is far from a mockery. It can win over anyone.  A testimony to our rich music community - both silly & amazing.\n\nThe Southern is transformed into a Haunted Playground with 2 stages for 6-8 bands each night.\n\n \n\nOf Course, what makes it is you.  Your time to don your best Halloween - you!  Costumes are not required but highly encouraged & why wouldn’t you? \n\n \n\nThis event is a benefit for Shelter For Help In Emergency in Honor of Whitney French.\n\n \n\nInterested bands can apply for Mock Star's Ball 2026 here!\n\n\n*Lineup subject to change.  All sales final.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/Mock-Stars-Ball-Night-1-660x340-831a318de3.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/mock-stars-ball-2026-night-1","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 23<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/Mock-Stars-Ball-Night-1-180x180-dd15ceb4bb.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}},{"media_title":"Mock Star's Ball 2026 - Night 2","media_tagline":"To Benefit Shelter For Help In Emergency in honor of Whitney French","event_body":"THE 2026 MOCK STARS BALL IS HERE!\n\n \n\nCharlottesville's Best Halloween Party Continues Bigger, Better & More Rockin Than Ever!\n \n\nCome see your favorite local bands perform sets as your favorite bands of all times!\n\nThis event is a local favorite that is far from a mockery. It can win over anyone.  A testimony to our rich music community - both silly & amazing.\n\nThe Southern is transformed into a Haunted Playground with 2 stages for 6-8 bands each night.\n\n \n\nOf Course, what makes it is you.  Your time to don your best Halloween - you!  Costumes are not required but highly encouraged & why wouldn’t you? \n\n \n\nThis event is a benefit for Shelter For Help In Emergency in Honor of Whitney French.\n\n \n\nInterested bands can apply for Mock Star's Ball 2026 here!\n\n*Lineup subject to change.  All sales final.\n","media_file_type":"img","media_file_placeholder":null,"media_file_name":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/Mock-Stars-Ball-Night-2-660x340-50a740c406.jpg","media_link":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/events\/detail\/mock-stars-ball-2026-night-2","ticket_link":"Buy Tickets<\/a>","event_date":"Oct<\/span> 24<\/span>, 2026<\/span>","promos":"home featured just-announced","event_time":"8:00pm","media_thumb":"https:\/\/www.thesoutherncville.com\/assets\/img\/Mock-Stars-Ball-Night-2-180x180-94ed46fb4c.jpg","category":{"name":"Other","id":"0"}}]}