A chronicle of the Upstate South Carolina music community and beyond
Molly Tuttle will bring her mix of folk, bluegrass and traditional country to The Spinning Jenny, 107 Cannon St., Greer on Friday, March 6. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter and 2018 Americana Music Awards Instrumentalist of the Year for her guitar prowess is touring in support of her latest album, “When You’re Read More
By DAN ARMONAITIS Nine years ago this week, a teenage Noah Guthrie nervously stepped in front of a microphone at Little River Coffee Bar in downtown Spartanburg for his first public concert. “I didn’t know anything about playing in front of people or anything really,” the Greer-based Guthrie recalled recently. Read More
The WinterSkunk Music Fest will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 8 at The Spinning Jenny, 107 Cannon St., Greer. An indoor precursor to the popular Albino Skunk Music Festival held on local music aficionado Glynn Zeigler’s property north of the city each spring and fall, this year’s WinterSkunk Music Fest Read More
Having launched to much fanfare just over two months ago, The Sally Rides will take flight again on Wednesday, Jan. 15 for a performance at The Peddler, 149 W. Main St., Spartanburg. Composed of five women with decades of experience on the Upstate music circuit, the group has already amassed Read More
By DAN ARMONAITIS As I started the new year, I couldn’t help but take inventory of what has happened with TheMusicAdvocate.com in the short period since the site launched on Oct. 23, 2019. While having a morning cup of coffee, I looked back at the statistics for the site and Read More
Mac Arnold and Plate Full O’ Blues will present a post-Christmas concert on Thursday, Dec. 26 at The Spinning Jenny, 107 Cannon St., Greer. The Upstate’s premier blues disciple, Arnold got his start playing in a band that included James Brown on piano and later became a member of the Read More
The Spartanburg Philharmonic will present “The Snowman and Other Holiday Favorites” this weekend at the Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St. John St., Spartanburg. The family-friendly, one-hour concert will be presented at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14 and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15. Each show will feature such holiday Read More
By DAN ARMONAITIS Jeff Anderson still has a fondness for the country music that he enjoyed while growing up in Greer. “I always liked that kind of ’80s and ’90 style country,” Anderson said. “What I consider real country or honky-tonk style country — country that really tells a story. Read More
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea will take the stage at the Walhalla Performing Arts Center, 101 E. North Broad St., Walhalla on Sunday, Nov. 17. The intimate performance, billed as “An Evening with Kathy Mattea,” starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $33-$38. Hailed by The Washington Post as “one Read More
Jim Lauderdale shared the stage with Donna the Buffalo on Sunday, Nov. 3 at The Spinning Jenny in Greer for an evening of Americana and roots music bliss. At one point during the show, the Nashville-based Lauderdale, who spent his teenage years living in Due West, noted the intensity of Read More