Chris Hamlett / Mojohand / Mike Hewlett [Small Room-Downstairs]

Yotuma / Viogression / Grave Lurker / Skinwraith [Small Room-Downstairs]

Dinosauria / Moses Crouch / Burning Brigids [Small Room-Downstairs]

Superloser / The Stupid Reasons / Shorty & The Grooves / Twice As Less [Small Room-Downstairs]

Pat Vaughan Band [Small Room-Downstairs]

The Pat Vaughan Band is a psychedelic rock/jam band from Memphis, Tennessee. Taking their influences from the jam band scene, as well as from the top blues, jazz, country, soul and funk musicians throughout the eras, the four piece band delivers powerful, entertaining, and everchanging performances. Their songs seem to touch all the genres, and serve as vessels for improvisational jams intent on both stealing faces and easing heads. Picking up where the musical greats of the past left off, the Pat Vaughan Band is here to carry the torch into the next generation, to help light the way, and give people what they want and need; music from the soul.

Blue Cactus / Alice Hasen [Small Room-Downstairs]

Blue Cactus, the North Carolina duo of Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, make Dream Country: a blend of grit, glitz, groove, and twang that evokes a celestial soundscape of mid-century heartbreak and harkens comparisons eclectic and iconic as Bobbie Gentry, Fleetwood Mac, and David Bowie. Their sophomore album, Stranger Again, released in 2021 on Sleepy Cat Records, nabbed enthusiastic attention from tastemakers including No Depression, American Songwriter, FLOOD Magazine, Talkhouse, and INDY Week among others. Following their critically-acclaimed 2017 debut and a string of singles in 2020, Stranger Again saw the band taking their sound to an ambitious new plane, where country-rock and light psychedelia mingle, vocals soaring over twangy slide guitars and propulsive basslines. The North Carolina duo have performed at several beloved festivals including Nelsonville, Red Wing Roots, Muddy Roots and Hopscotch and shared the stage as support for an array of artists from The War & Treaty, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, and Lilly Hiatt to Town Mountain and Junior Brown among others. Between the comfort of classic country and the glamour of 70s rock, Blue Cactus resuscitates a fleeting style of honest-to-goodness country music considered valueless to a “new” country music where songwriting is officiated by financial analysts and teams of marketing plutocrats instead of woebegone troubadours. With a high lonesome twang, an Emmylou-like southern drawl, and blistering guitar techniques, Blue Cactus exercises the honky-tonk muscles to firmly bear the flag for a new generation of country music.