Transviolet
After viral success with their debut single Girls Your Age in 2015, cosigns from Harry Styles, Katy Perry and Ellie Goulding, and accolades from tastemakers like Rolling Stone, the Fader, and Nylon, Transviolet built their cult following by opening for artists like Twenty One Pilots, LANY, Joywave, Dua Lipa, Mother Mother and captivating audiences at Gov Ball, SXSW, Redding and Leeds, Firefly and Summerfest. After going independent in 2019, the band has continued to break barriers in the indie space, receiving organic radio play on LA’s alt 98.7, sync placements such as the title theme for WB’s Pretty Little Liars, and landing numerous coveted playlist spots across platforms and genres, such as New Music Friday (Spotify), New in Alternative (Apple), New Dance Pop (Spotify), Heart Beats (Spotify), New Arrivals Arrivals Pop (tidal), Creamy (spotify). Now, with a viral moment on Chinese social media, and a viral moment on instagram reels, the band packed rooms on their Chinese headlining tour in spring 2024, and their 4th headlining run in the US on their Softcore tour, anticipating the release of their Softcore EP, out June 28th, leading into their Softcore LP in February 2025. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Spotify | YouTube
Hourglass Kids, Sugar Snap Peas
Hourglass Kids The Hourglass Kids began as a group of high school friends jamming in various North Carolina basements, growing over the years into a dynamic seven-piece reggae-jam-rock collective. Known for their electrifyingly original live shows, the band draws on the distinct lyricism of four vocalists and the vibrant energy of a full horn section. Their music spans an eclectic mix of styles, blending roots reggae, psychedelic jam, hip-hop, funk, and jazz-rock, and has carved them out their own space in the roots music scene Sugar Snap Peas Sugar Snap Peas is a 6-piece fusion outfit based out of Raleigh, NC. Drawing on a set of influences spanning jazz to dreampop, the Peas’ sound is characterized by intricate grooves, colorful harmonies, and a lushness that fills the room. The Peas guide audiences between intimate ballads and high-energy arrangements over the course of their live sets. Propelled by musical curiosity informed by sophisticated tastes, they offer a sound unique in the Triangle music scene. Brandon Tenney Brandon Tenney grew up in North Carolina idolizing the music of AC/DC and Van Halen. Now in his early twenties, Tenney is a bandleader recording original material, and building a local following in the North Carolina Triad area. On his upcoming EP “Under Construction”, Tenney finds his niche in modern indie rock, while paying homage to his favorite 70s bands. Still at the beginning of a burgeoning career, Tenney has not only an unstoppable drive to create and build a successful band, but a full commitment to artistry.
6th Annual Cupid’s Jam – Benefit Concert for TABLE
Please join us for the 6th Annual Cupid’s Jam – a festival show benefitting TABLE!As House Bands from School of Rock Chapel Hill, School of Rock Chesapeake, VA, School of Rock Virginia Beach, VA, and The R&B Performance Band from SOR Greensboro all come together to deliver an amazing afternoon of live music from the Main Stage of Cat’s Cradle! Sunday, February 16, 2025 – 12:30pm to 4:30pm!Doors at 12:00 noon. We humbly request $20 per attendee to help support the imporant work of TABLE. Always a great day and a wonderful event, we hope you’ll help us pack the house! TABLE delivers healthy food and nutrition education to children in Orange County, North Carolina. Learn more about this important organization at: https://tablenc.org/what-we-do/
Joscho Stephan & Sven Jungbeck
Joscho Stephan & Sven Jungbeck on March 21, 2025. 8:00pm-10:00pm. (Two, 45 minute sets, with intermission) The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival Website Joscho Stephan of Germany, has been integral in shaping modern Gypsy Jazz. With his authentic tone, harmonic finesse, rhythmic flair, and his virtuosic solo technique, Joscho has earned his reputation in the international guitar scene. He incorporates his many influences, from Classical to Latin to Pop, into his creative and visionary brand of contemporary Gypsy Jazz. Joscho has collaborated with many of the most celebrated players of Gypsy Jazz and beyond, including Bireli Lagrène, Stochelo Rosenberg, Tommy Emmanuel, and George Benson. Joscho will be performing with rhythm guitarist Sven Jungbeck, also from Germany. Along with being a sought after guitarist on the international performance circuit, he is also well known as a Gypsy Jazz guitar teacher through his popular YouTube channel. Joscho Stephan Website | Joscho Stephan YouTube | Sven Jungbeck YouTube
Simba Baumgartner & Adrien Marco Gypsy Jazz Guitar Workshop
March 22, 2025. 2:00pm-3:30pm Learn the secrets of Gypsy Jazz guitar straight from the masters. Simba and Adrien will guide you in the finer points of la pompe and chord voicings, as well as soloing concepts and licks. Come with an acoustic guitar and a recording device. Other instruments welcome too, but the workshop will focus on guitar. The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival Website Simba Baumgartner and Adrien Marco are French Gypsy Jazz guitarists who are part of the young generation of authentic players carrying on the tradition of Django Reinhardt. Simba is the great grandson of Django’s, and grew up in Samois-sur- Seine surrounded by the music and his family’s legacy. He plays in the authentic Jazz Manouche way, having learned it directly from his elders and some the greatest musicians of the style. Proud of his origins, he represents his musical culture by paying homage to his ancestor, while also revealing his own vision. Adrien grew up not far from Samois, the home of the original Django Reinhardt Festival. He was drawn to learning the guitar after hearing Django’s music, and taught himself to play by trying to recreate what he heard. His graceful and dynamic playing makes him a sought after musician on the world stage. Adrien Marco Website | Adrien Marco YouTube
Simba Baumgartner & Adrien Marco + Onyx Club Boys
March 22, 2025. 8:00pm-11:00pm.(Show #1, 8-9pm, 15 minute intermission, show #2, 9:15-11pm) The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival Website Simba Baumgartner and Adrien Marco are French Gypsy Jazz guitarists who are part of the young generation of authentic players carrying on the tradition of Django Reinhardt. Simba is the great grandson of Django’s, and grew up in Samois-sur- Seine surrounded by the music and his family’s legacy. He plays in the authentic Jazz Manouche way, having learned it directly from his elders and some the greatest musicians of the style. Proud of his origins, he represents his musical culture by paying homage to his ancestor, while also revealing his own vision. Adrien grew up not far from Samois, the home of the original Django Reinhardt Festival. He was drawn to learning the guitar after hearing Django’s music, and taught himself to play by trying to recreate what he heard. His graceful and dynamic playing makes him a sought after musician on the world stage. Adrien Marco Website | Adrien Marco YouTube Onyx Club Boys is an acoustic string band (violin, guitar, upright bass, and drums) rooted in Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy Jazz sounds of Paris, and Stuff Smith’s New York City Swing. However, being from 21st Century North Carolina, their diverse influences take the music beyond borders. With influences from around the world, their performances transcend boundaries, drawing listeners in with irresistible rhythms, soulful melodies, and a shared appreciation for the universal language of music. For this special Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival appearance, they will start things off with the core band (Gabriel Pelli, Ben Lassiter, Aaron Gross, Daniel Hall), adding special guests until they transform into the sizzling Onyx Club Boys Big Band experience! Come ready to party and dance the night away. Onyx Club Boys Website
Sven Jungbeck Gypsy Jazz Guitar Workshop
March 20, 2025. 7:30pm-9:30pm Location in Carrboro/Chapel Hill to be announced. Along with being a sought after guitarist on the international performance circuit, Sven is also well known as a Gypsy Jazz guitar teacher through his popular YouTube channel. Not only will he guide in chord and lead playing in person all the way from Germany, he will also provide students with extensive materials to continue learning from. The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival Website | Sven Jungbeck YouTube
Abbey Road LIVE! – Family Matinee
“One of the world’s premier Beatles cover bands” -US News and World Report “unquestionably expert at what they do” -Indyweek You loved Beatles music when you were a kid. Now YOUR kids have a chance to experience the magic of the Beatles LIVE in concert! Abbey Road LIVE! is well known in the Southeast for their energetic concerts at clubs, theaters and festivals. This time, the focus will be on the kids. Expect fun classics such as “Octopus’ Garden”, “Yellow Submarine”, and “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”. Does your child have a a favorite Beatles tune? Abbey Road LIVE! loves to take requests, and has often been known to invite kids on stage to sing along. This rare event will be big fun for the whole family! **Special FAMILY PACK ticket available – admits 4 people for just $40!** Website | Facebook | YouTube
Blue Cactus Album Release Show
Led by kindred spirit songwriters Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, Blue Cactus got their start among the active honky-tonk circuit, developing an electrified twang that now branches out effortlessly into folk, alt-country, and psychedelic-tinged rock. Blue Cactus has supported a diverse set of artists over its eight-year history (The War & Treaty, Town Mountain, and Steve Gunn, among others), Stewart’s introspective lyricism and Arnez’s skill for lush arrangements making the band potent in the studio and on stage. Released April 2025 via Sleepy Cat Records, their third album, Believer, has received praise from several tastemakers including No Depression, NPR, Holler Country, Under the Radar, and The Bluegrass Situation with Indy Week applauding, “Believer is a standout album, with Stewart’s steady Dolly Parton-esque twang shimmering alongside the band’s pop-country hooks and bittersweet (but always catchy) lyrics.” The album came to life with producers Whit Wright (Thomas Rhett) and Saman Khoujinian (Sylvan Esso) and with contributions from a host of talents, including Erin Rae, Brit Taylor, Rich Ruth, Hozier’s Ryan Conners, Joe Westerlund (Jake Fussell, Watchhouse), and Nashville session master Russ Pahl. Brimming with cracked-open honesty and electrified twang, Believer cements North Carolina’s Blue Cactus as a leading force in modern country and roots music. Led by songwriters Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, the group’s third album was written over a heavy two years following their critically lauded debut Blue Cactus and the glitz-and-glam sophomore album Stranger Again, as Stewart battled chronic health issues and the duo reassembled their musical careers in the wake of 2020. Feeling into an arid internal landscape, Stewart found microclimates of life as she hummed melodies and jotted down phrases. On Believer, Stewart’s instinct for cadence and lyricism evoke Emmylou Harris’ spacious storytelling and the dusty Southern folk melancholy of Gillian Welch while Arnez holds space for each song, tending the soil with layered folk textures, genre-hopping arrangements, and bittersweet hooks. The result is a shock of color and energy, Believer blooming as delicate, prickly, and bold as a field of wildflowers. Website | Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | Spotify | YouTube | TikTok
Rob DiMauro’s 40th Birthday Bash
Rob DiMauro’s 40th Birthday Bashfeaturing SKINNY BAG OF SUGAR and THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Chapel Hill) STAFF BAND
