Brotality / Stonewall Static [Small Room-Downstairs]
Brother Dege / Adam Faucett / Chris Hamlett [Big Room-Upstairs]
Grammy-nominated Brother Dege Legg (“Too Old to Die Young” – Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained)* is one of the best-kept secrets in the Deep South; a musician, writer, outsider artist, and heir to a long line of enigmatic characters birthed in swamplands of Louisiana. Brother Dege utilizes slide guitars, Delta blues, Dobros, and cinematic songwriting to conjure a new vision of the psychedelic Deep South.*“Too Old to Die Young” was handpicked by Quentin Tarantino for inclusion in the soundtrack to Django Unchained.BROTHER DEGE: LONG BIOArtist: Brother Dege (pronounced DEEJ) Touring Band: Brother Dege & The Brethren Home: Lafayette/New Orleans, Louisiana, USAGrammy-nominated Brother Dege Legg (Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained) is one of the best-kept secrets in Louisiana; a musician, writer (Louisiana Press Award 2004, 2008), outsider artist, and heir to a long line of enigmatic characters birthed in slaughterhouse of the Deep South. It’s been a wild ride for this boy. Like the mad love child of Son House and William Faulkner, Legg has burned a colorful trail through the Promised Land, working odd jobs (dishwasher, day laborer, cabdriver, embedded journalist, homeless shelter employee), hitchhiking, studying philosophy, and writing books while passionately championing the swampy quirks of Deep South.Growing up, there were few promising opportunities for young man of Legg’s eccentric stripe in Cajun country and things eventually got difficult and strange: chronic bouts of depression, habitual drug use, clashes with local pecking orders and prejudices, and arrests soon became routine. During one gloomy episode – deflated and broke – Legg climbed the Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge, determined to dive into the next life, but after a last minute change of heart, he humbly climbed back down and vowed to find a better way to exist. He immediately drove himself to rehab in a stolen Camaro and rededicated himself to creative pursuits, namely songwriting and writing. He soon formed the rock band Santeria who had a 10-year run of chaos and bedeviled kookiness (1994-2004). After four albums, they disbanded in an anarchic heap of bad luck, poverty, exhaustion, and voodoo curses they suspected were cast on the band to hasten their demise.Legg spent the next year living in low-rent motels and trailer parks, writing new songs that tapped into the haunting style of the Delta Blues greats.
Blood / Total Wife / Elf Rage / General Labor [Small Room-Downstairs]
Waylon Payne w/ Caleb Ryan Martin & Mike Hewlett [Small Room-Downstairs]
Magic happens when everything comes together like it’s supposed to — when the joys and the pain, the triumphs and the missteps all click into place to be seen for what they truly are. Waylon Payne’s Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me (releasing 9/11/20 via Carnival Recording Company / Empire) is such a moment, the culmination of an extraordinary journey set to music.A son of country music royalty, a teenaged Baptist preacher turned addict and actor, Payne sings about fathers and sons, faith and addiction, recovery and renewal with devastating clarity. His character-rich collection harks back to a way of telling stories in song that revealed kept secrets and promised mystery. Over his years, Payne has felt the terrible power secrets can hold and learned the transformative value of releasing them. Finally, he’s in a place where he can harness that power to create transcendent work.Payne recorded Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me primarily at Southern Ground Nashville, a converted century-old church building just off Music Row that once housed Monument Studios. Payne’s mother, country singer Sammi Smith, cut her iconic version of Kris Kristofferson’s “Help Me Make It Through the Night” at Monument. When Payne recorded his vocals, he says, “I stood in the same spot she stood and sang while she was pregnant with me.”
MOTHERSHIP Drag Show [Big Room-Upstairs]
Get ready for another thrilling interstellar journey with Mothie and her friends!!! Featuring talents from both new friends and long time favorites!!! Get ready to beam up and get down in a cow field with us!!! This drag show welcomes all friends and all forms of drag! Join us at The Hi Tone!!!! Try the fries! They are out of this world!!!
The Angels of Death & more [Small Room-Downstairs]
Heavyweight Tour [Small Room-Downstairs]
Bad Guru / Mike Hewlett and The Racket [Small Room-Downstairs]
Vomit Forth / Ritual Fog / Grave Lurker [Small Room-Downstairs]
Autolith / Planning For Burial / Dayjob / Lacing [Small Room-Downstairs]
