12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jim White, T. Hardy Morris, Don Chambers, and Dodd Ferrelle on stage together from 12-1 for a song swap, performing in a round format where each artist takes turns sharing their songs.

Jim White was discovered by David Byrne in the late 90's and has since released ten critically acclaimed albums, including “Wrong-Eyed Jesus,”, "No Such Place" and “Misfit’s Jubilee”. His songs have appeared in numerous film and television shows, including Breaking Bad, Law & Order, Rectify and El Camino.

He serves as the defacto tour guide to the underbelly of the US south in the BBC cult classic documentary Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus.

Most recently from the restless mind of White comes “Incidental Contact,” the Pushcart Prize-winner’s long-awaited novel, a magical realism urban fable that “Mojo” magazine describes as “Unputdownable”.

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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jim White, T. Hardy Morris, Don Chambers, and Dodd Ferrelle on stage together from 12-1 for a song swap, performing in a round format where each artist takes turns sharing their songs.

In February 2020, T. Hardy Morris had it all figured out. He was busy putting the finishing touches on songs that would serve as the follow up to 2018’s Dude, the Obscure. He spent the previous few years on the road supporting that release and this group of songs felt like a logical jump forward for the singer-songwriter. With 13 songs demoed, sussed out and ready to go, Morris was excited to get his band together to rehearse the songs before hunkering down in the studio to record. Then the pandemic hit.

Sequestered at his Athens-area home with his family, Morris, like most everyone else in the past year, mulled over what was truly important to him and in response, the acclaimed singer-songwriter decided to write. And write. And write, before crafting an entirely new set of songs that would end up comprising an entirely new album.

For the first time in his career, Morris took a micro approach to his songwriting with a long look directly inwards. Captivated by the sobering realities of the pandemic, he composed one of the most personal works yet. Titled The Digital Age of Rome, Morris tackles the well-worn anxieties of the past year as pandemic and political divisions ravaged America. The Digital Age of Rome isn’t just the album’s title, it serves as the centerpiece thematically and sonically to Morris’ message; Technology doesn't necessarily equal progress.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jim White, T. Hardy Morris, Don Chambers, and Dodd Ferrelle on stage together from 12-1 for a song swap, performing in a round format where each artist takes turns sharing their songs.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Don Chambers has made a powerful name for himself in Athens, GA, where he's become a local favorite for his often dark, powerfully emotional tales of loss and the search for redemption.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Jim White, T. Hardy Morris, Don Chambers, and Dodd Ferrelle on stage together from 12-1 for a song swap, performing in a round format where each artist takes turns sharing their songs.

Dodd Ferrelle is a singer-songwriter from Winterville, Ga. The longtime member of the Athens, Ga. music scene has released 9 albums ranging from acoustic folk/alt country to full on pop-rock and sonic Americana. He has also released a Georgia Bulldog fight song as well as a children's record that accompanied the book "If you were a Jellybean" co-written with his wife, artist Cameron Bliss. Ferrelle's latest project is a more orchestrated and theatrical story album entitled "Keeping Betsy''. A musical stage production will accompany the album due out 2024.

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

String Theory plays traditional old time, contradance, bluegrass and Americana music and is made up of some of Athens finest acoustic musicians. The band taps deeply into the varied talents of five experienced acoustic musicians to combine driving renditions of traditional old time fiddle tunes and songs rendered with four-part vocal harmonies and spiced with bluegrass and Americana elements. The lineup includes, Tommy Jordan (banjo, guitar, vocals), Dick Daniels (bass, mandolin, guitar and vocals), Antoon Speters (mandolin, banjo), Susan Staley (guitar, vocals and beat box) and Dale Wechsler (fiddle).

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

The New Orleans Jazz Stompers (formerly The Dixieland Five) are a Traditional Jazz / Dixieland Band that features a front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone and a rhythm section of piano, sousaphone, banjo and drums. Liam Parke is the featured vocalist. They play jazz styles of the early 20th century that came from New Orleans and then spread across the country and around the world. Our traditional New Orleans style second line band is able to play in almost any setting from festival stages to grand ballrooms; riverboats to city streets; private parties to scripted events. Warren Weatherford- trumpet George Cone- trombone Josh Klein - trumpet Alexandra Dunbar - Keyboard George Rinke - Drums Raymond Castleberry - Sousaphone Liam Parke -Banjo/Lead Vocals The trombone player is also a swing dancer so they enjoy playing for dancers and making that part of the experience.

3:20 pm - 4:20 pm

Steeped in the wealth of experience and known for lyrical maturity that still packs an attitude, musician Rick Fowler brings an original yet familiar appeal to fans of ‘60s and ‘70s rock. The Athens-based blues rock Rick Fowler Acoustic Band is composed of Rick Fowler (vocals/guitar), Michael Doke (guitar/slide guitar/vocals), Greg Veale (bass/vocals) and Deane Quinter (drums). Together the group presents a raw version of blues rock polished by each member’s know-how of their instrument. Its stories remain accessible and representative of the band’s collective knowledge and impressive individual histories.

4:40 pm - 5:40 pm

The term “Hobohemian” denotes a unique form of Americanized vagabond-style bohemianism which guides the group’s approach towards popular American and European roots music of the 1910’s, 20’s, and 30’s: a potent mix of proto-jazz, blues, and folk.

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Conjuring a mysterious brew of folk, psychedelia, world music, and progressive rock, Immaterial Possession are a group from Athens, Georgia whose music takes listeners into a world all their own.

7:20 pm - 8:20

Born and raised in Georgia, this talented pair imitates and modernizes folk music to a rejuvenating degree. The sound of Andrea DeMarcus and Dave Kirslis exhibits skilled and articulate guitar picking honed in the dive bars of Atlanta over rolling Julliard-trained bass lines. Expect chilling harmonies, unbridled enthusiasm, some wholesome tunes and a sincere performance.

8:45 pm - 10:00 pm

This record was me trying to take everything I love as a listener and a player and shove it all into one thing without it sounding random,” says Hunter Pinkston, former punk turned cosmic country auteur, describing You Know Who, the boisterous, ambitious sophomore album by his band the Pink Stones. Ostensibly they play country music, yet all the pedal steel sobs, the two-steppin’ rhythms, twangy harmonies, and lyrics about broken hearts and long days on the road are launchpads for wild experiments and unexpected stylistic forays. “There’s obviously a lot of country and rock in our music, but there’s a lot of gospel and soul and psych and dub. I really wanted to get all of those things living peacefully together in one song.”

The Pink Stones match their frontman’s vast musical vocabulary while adding their own twists to spacey honkytonk, pedal-to-the-metal trucker anthems, and ecstatic gospel. Together, they have the range to be whatever they need to be at any given moment, embracing the spirit of musical freedom that has animated the local music scene for more than forty years. Yet, the Pink Stones sound like no other Athens band. “We have the space to be free here in Athens and do whatever we want,” says Pinkston. “We get to do our own thing, and there are a million other really good bands doing their own things here as well. Everyone is friends with everyone else, and everyone’s doing something constantly, so you’re always hearing something new. And you always have to stay on your toes.”