Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters and Brooks Ritter
2025-04-26 17:30 - 22:00 UTC
Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters are a three piece Progressive Roots Rock band from Southern Indiana. Known as one of the most prolific and hard touring bands in the Midwest, they’ve released prior albums; “Midwest Heart/ Southern Blues”, “All Damn Day”, and “Heavy Denim”. The new album, “Fast Fashion”(sonaBlast! Records), is a 4 song EP, full of characters who were developed while staring over the dash of a beat up van. Nick Dittmeier & Sawdusters will be a hit with fans of The Band, Dire Straits, and the Old 97’s.
https://www.nickdittmeier.com
Brooks Ritter debuted his most recent album, Ghost Come To Life, on January 1st, 2021. Ritter is a Louisville, Kentucky native musician, and his music ranges from “soul to roots music, with a little indie-rock.” His previous album, Stereo of Steel follows the same pattern with 10 original songs. Ritter has toured with various bands during his music career, including Sara Watkins from Nickel Creek, Greg Laswell, Anderson East, Zella Day, Ben Sollee, and others.
https://www.brooksrittermusic.com
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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This show is rain or shine and will be outdoors unless the weather makes an outdoor show unsafe. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – Brooks Ritter will open the show with an approximately 45 minute set and then Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters will play after a quick break.
9:30ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch

Bonner Black
2025-05-17 17:30 - 22:00
Bonner Black
Songwriter and birder, Bonner Black, was raised and homeschooled in the unincorporated town of Hot Rock, Tennessee. She fell in love with music through her one social outlet; classical ballet classes. At seventeen Black moved to Nashville, embarked on her first regional tour, and received the Artist Entrepreneur Award from The Oxford Center of Entrepreneurs at The Times Center in New York City. The now 12 year Music City veteran has accumulated 900k+ streams and 127k social media followers. Black gained momentum in 2024 releasing her highly awaited debut album, “Hopeless RomANTICS,” landing coveted playlists such as Spotify’s “Fresh Finds Pop” and Apple Music’s “Breaking Singer-Songwriter”, and playing a sold out Nashville album release show. In the same year she completed her headlining US “Fall Migration Tour” and opened 5 sold out shows in the UK.
Black is also an avid birder and her birdwatching videos have gained 15+ million views. She has collaborated with The Audubon Society in the US and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK. By integrating her enthusiasm for birds and songwriting, she has cultivated a unique and devout community and hosts birding events and nature walks around her tours and music releases.
https://www.bonnerblack.com
Alex Salcido
Alex Salcido is a Cincinnati, OH-based musician, singer-songwriter, and one of the frontmen for Ludlow, KY based Americana/Indie-Folk outfit The Harmed Brothers. Influenced by the likes of The Mountain Goats, Wilco, John Prine, Flaming Lips, Bob Dylan, and more – his songs weave love, loss and nostalgia together with whatever random bits of trivia and history might capture his interest.
https://alexsalcido.bandcamp.com/

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Bonner will also be doing a nature walk at French Park at 9:00am on Sunday, May 18. Sign up for that here: Nature Walk RSVP

THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This show is rain or shine and will be outdoors unless the weather makes an outdoor show unsafe. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – Alex will plan a short set and then Bonner will play for approximately an hour and a half.
9:00ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to Bonner and buy some merch

Mac Leaphart
2025-05-31 18:00 - 22:00
Mac Leaphart struck gold with 2021’s Music City Joke, a record that found the award-winning songwriter cracking the Top 40 on the Americana charts, hitting the road with a full band, and earning a spot on nearly a dozen best-of-the-year lists. He wrote the album in Nashville, where hundreds of solo gigs and writers’ rounds had already sharpened his wry version of American roots music. Once Music City Joke found a national audience, though, Leaphart began spending more time outside of town, packing venues from Amarillo to St Louis.
“I was playing long shows with the band, trying to create the best set possible,” he remembers. “That’s where this new album came from. It came from me wanting to fill the holes in my setlist. It came from me wanting to write songs that were built for the stage.”
He’s talking about Motel Breakfast, an album that unfolds like the rowdy, amplified cousin to Music City Joke. Produced by Brad Jones, it’s a collection of songs that match Leaphart’s salty songwriting with plugged-in performances from a band of Nashville A-listers. Inspired by the greasy cool of the Rolling Stones, the primordial rock & roll of Chuck Berry, and the storytelling of Billy Joe Shaver, Motel Breakfast turns a new page for an artist who’s been running the roads for 15 years.
“It’s an upbeat honky-tonk rock & roll record that doesn’t skimp on the craft or stories,” says Leaphart, a South Carolina native who kickstarted his career playing the state’s Lowcountry bar scene. Not long after his first solo record, Line, Rope Etc, arrived in 2009, he moved to Nashville. There, he launched a recurring songwriter’s night called the Southpaw Social Club and strengthened his own writing chops, too, penning songs for other artists’ albums as well as his own.
https://www.macleaphart.com

RSVP INFO
This show is invite only. Contact allison.beer@gmail.com for details.

Gabe Lee
2025-06-28 17:00 - 23:00
Gabe Lee
Equal parts classic songwriter and modern-day storyteller, Gabe Lee has built his own bridge between country, folk and rock. Lee has been collecting stories for years, both onstage and off. “I used to bartend,” says the Nashville-based songwriter, “which means I was also a cheap therapist for whomever happened to be sitting on the barstool. Whether they were there to celebrate or drink away their problems, I heard about whatever they were going through. It was my job to have that face-to-face interaction — that connection. Being a full-time musician isn’t much different.”

With critically-acclaimed albums like 2019’s farmland, 2020’s Honky-Tonk Hell, and 2022’s The Hometown Kid, Lee created that connection by delivering his own stories to an ever-growing audience. His fourth record, Drink the River, takes a different approach. This time, Lee isn’t offering listeners a peek into his internal world; he’s holding up a mirror to reflect their own.

Storytelling has been an anchor of Lee’s music since the very beginning. Raised by Taiwanese parents in Nashville, TN, he left home during his teenage years and headed to Indiana, where he obtained college degrees in literature and journalism. Lee launched his career as a genre-bending musician after returning to Tennessee, quickly progressing from dive bar gigs to high-profile opening slots (including shows with Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, Molly Tuttle, and other artists who, like him, blurred the lines between roots-rock, country, and other forms of American folk music) to his own headlining shows. Throughout it all, he drew upon the narrative skills he’d sharpened as a student. If albums like Honky-Tonk Hell and The Hometown Kid often unfolded like autobiographical entries from his road journal, then Drink the River shows an even broader range of his storytelling abilities. Lee isn’t just writing songs about himself; he’s writing songs about all of us. And maybe, in doing so, he can bring us a little closer together.

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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This show is rain or shine and will be outdoors unless the weather makes an outdoor show unsafe. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – The artist will play either on 90 minute set or two 45 minute sets with a break in between.
9:00ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artist and buy some merch

The Band Loula
2025-07-20 17:30 - 22:00
Embodying the soil and grit of North Georgia, The Band Loula brings a swampy and haunting acoustic spirit to their instantly transfixing country. Two best friends, each an artist in their own right, Malachi Mills and Logan Simmons sought to evoke a new aesthetic. Raw harmonies, signature chemistry and a hard-touring ethos has infused the duo – signed to Warner Music Nashville and currently in the studio with Grammy-winning Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne — with an electricity that’s charged with desire, betrayal and yearning. Their soulful, song-forward approach to music offers a very real, very now sound for people who like their country straight up and real. The Band Loula has been touring recently with artists like Dierks Bentley, Zach Top, Elle King, Brothers Osborne, Ashley McBryde, Paul Cauthen, and Brent Cobb
https://www.thebandloula.com/

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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This show is rain or shine and will be outdoors unless the weather makes an outdoor show unsafe. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – The Band Loula will play for approximately an hour and a half to two hours.
9:030ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch

Myron Elkins and Billy Gunther and the Midwest Riders
2025-08-22 17:30 - 23:00
MYRON ELKINS
Elkins, originally a Michigan native, had no intention of making it in the music industry for most of his life. After graduating high school, he aspired to be a welder in his hometown; planning on making this his full-time career while playing local gigs as a hobby. However, the singer placed second in his local ‘Battle Of The Bands’, introducing him to a whole new career path. The aspiring country artist fell in love with songwriting and performing, quickly cultivating an audience upon moving to Music City. His album Factories, Farms, & Amphetamines was partly written while Elkins was working as a welder, and the ten-track album breaks down his upbringing in Michigan’s working-class as well as his fresh headway into the music scene.
Reminiscent of Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles, “Nashville Money” is a groovy country-rock ballad you’ll have on repeat. Lyrically, Elkins discusses his conflicting emotions about pursuing a path in the music industry. With lines like, “Washing all the doubts down the drain, show me where and how to put my pain,” the singer expresses how ‘Nashville Money’ is a metaphor for how difficult success can be to navigate. Elkin’s powerful Americana voice draws listeners in immediately, sonically making up a fusion of southern rock and country blues. Additionally, the album was masterfully produced by six-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb, who successfully launched the careers of many legends. Cobb has worked with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, and Jason Isbell; making this record a must-listen-to success.
https://www.myronelkins.com

BILLY GUNTHER AND THE MIDWEST RIDERS
Full of drive and passion, the Midwest Riders launched in Flint Michigan and their inaugural show was opening for The Swon Brothers in 2019. After writing original material and touring, the Riders’ rapid success was slowed but not halted when the world shut down in 2020. Determined to stay engaged and active, they built their own home studio, immersed themselves creatively and a first album was born. “Countryish” was recorded at the legendary Sound Emporium Studios in 2020 in Nashville, TN with some of the best players in the industry. Inspired by the roots of Southern rock and country music, torn by the feel of funk and soul, the Riders are now working on their second studio album at Rust Belt Studios. Their talent and camaraderie continues to energize and mesmerize audiences from the midwest to the deep south.
https://themidwestriders.com/

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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This show is rain or shine and will be outdoors unless the weather makes an outdoor show unsafe. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – The artists will play for approximately an hour and a half to two hours.
9:030ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch

Brother Elsey
2025-09-19 17:30 - 22:00
BROTHER ELSEY
The resounding favorite in the end of year survey question “which artist would you like to see back next year” two years running, Brother Elsey will be back in 2025! Comprised of siblings Brady (vocals and guitar), Beau (bass), and Jack Stablein (lead guitar), plus honorary kin Dalton Thomas (drums), these sons of Detroit have spent almost their whole lives creating what amounts to a blueprint of musical connection. True connection, the kind that has nothing to do with the descriptors we use to slice and dice ourselves apart. Freely mixing rock, folk, and country in ways both grounded and atmospheric, rugged and serene, they ignore those same labels for a boldly original sound, filled with lofty soundscapes and soul-piercing blood harmonies.
​https://www.brotherelsey.com/
TIMOTHY EDWARD CARPENTER
Timothy Edward Carpenter is a singer-songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Known for his descriptive lyrical storytelling and heartfelt melodies, Carpenter’s songs are sure to elicit feelings of nostalgia and honest introspection.
​https://timothyedwardcarpenter.com/
RSVP HERE
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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This show is rain or shine and will be outdoors unless the weather makes an outdoor show unsafe. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – Brother Elsey will play two approximately 45 minute sets with a break in between.
9:00ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch

Will Overman
2025-10-17 17:30 - 21:30
Restless by nature, a traveler with a poet’s eye for mountains but a working man’s taste for road food, Overman’s always on the move. He comes by it naturally. That’s because Overman spent his formative years as a child of two worlds. Summer surf sessions in Virginia Beach gave way to fall backpacking expeditions in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rinse, wash, repeat. Sunscreen and fly rods, flip flops and hiking boots. Two different landscapes. Two different soundtracks. Rock and pop where water meets earth, bluegrass and folk where trees meet the sky. Somewhere in between, maybe on the interstate between Virginia’s edges and its heart, that’s where the country music is.
Ask Overman about his influences, and he’s just as likely to say The Killers as the Avett Brothers. So it’s inevitable all those worlds would sonically collide inside Overman’s head. A live performance will probably include a harmonica. But you’ll also get a good old-fashioned rock show. Or is it alt-country? Alternative?
Impossible to say, and that’s just the way Overman likes it. That’s because the versatile singer-songwriter has some road behind him now. Has lived enough life to know it doesn’t matter what you call a thing as long as it does the job. And that’s what Overman’s songs do.
https://www.willovermanmusic.com/
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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
November is dicey. This will likely be an indoor show unless we are having unseasonably nice weather. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – Will will play two approximately 45 minute sets with a break in between.
9:00ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch.

Jess Nolan
2025-11-07 17:30 - 22:00
When Jess Nolan began writing her upcoming third album at home in Nashville, she’d been on the move for years, traveling the world as a harmony-singing keyboardist for acts like Jenny Lewis, Katie Pruitt, and Joy Oladokun. Somewhere between the early-morning van calls and late-night gigs, she’d found time to expand her critically-acclaimed solo career, too, earning support from heroes like Ani DiFranco (who released Nolan’s sophomore album, ’93, on her label Righteous Babe Records) and an ever-growing fan base. The momentum was inspiring, but the pace could be dizzying, too.
Being at home felt like a grounding experience. For the first time ever, Nolan found herself living alone and prioritizing her own downtime, creating space to write new songs that bridged the gap between intimacy and expansiveness. With ’93, she’d explored the softer, meditative side of her music, but this new material was something different. It felt darker, autumnal, nocturnal. It felt playful, too, with Nolan often stepping away from the piano to write songs on guitar instead. When it came time to record these new compositions, she wanted to capture them in the same space in which they’d been created. So, with help from bandmates and friends — nearly all of them female — she transformed her home into a makeshift studio and got to work, recording Right At Home during five inspired days.
Right At Home offers an unfiltered view into Nolan’s past and present, turning personal details into something communal and cathartic. Bookending the record are abbreviated voicemails from her two grandfathers, their New Jersey accents on full display. Those spoken-word snippets are a reminder of Nolan’s roots up north, where she sharpened her songwriting as a Jersey-raised teenager before heading south — first to Florida, where she studied songwriting at University of Miami, and then to Tennessee, where she established herself as one of Nashville’s newest exports. They also help set the scene for Right At Home: an album that deals not only with where (and who) we come from, but the journey toward self-acceptance, too.
Jess will be joining us in support of her new album, and will surely share lots of stories about its creation in addition to the songs that are on it.
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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
November is dicey. This will likely be an indoor show unless we are having unseasonably nice weather. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – Jess will play two approximately 45 minute sets with a break in between.
9:00ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch.

Chloe Kimes
2026-01-23 17:30 - 21:30
Kimes was born and raised on the lakeshores of northern Michigan. As a rural midwest native her music is built on folk festivals, family harmony, and the barefoot back roads always taken. Chloe has built a strong Michigan following touring every small Mitten town since she was fourteen years old, but relocated to Nashville, TN in 2016 to continue her work as a professional singer, songwriter, bandleader, and recording artist.
The Nashville based singer-songwriter is actively defining the next generation of folk-singing troubadours with an old-soul sensibility for storytelling in a spirited alt-country outfit. She released her debut album in 2022, a strikingly live self-titled with rafter reaching vocals and songwriting that garnered her comparisons to the likes of Lucinda Williams (Jonathan Frahm, For Folk’s Sake) and landed her a spot on NPR Music’s Top 10 Nashville Artist’s on the rise in 2022. Since then, the record has also been awarded Listener’s Choice Album of the Year by her home state’s WYCE Radio Jammie Awards.
https://www.chloekimesmusic.com/
RSVP HERE
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THE DETAILS
We will have heavy snacks plus beer, wine and some liquor options. Feel free to bring a drink for yourself or to share of you would like something specific.
This will be an indoor show. We have some chairs, but feel free to bring your own folding chair if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
Our shows are largely adult only. Music-loving teenagers are welcome as long as it is understood that artists may use profanity and tell stories with adult themes.
Email allison.beer@gmail.com if you need our street number.

SCHEDULE
5:30: Doors Open – Come early to socialize and grab a drink and some food.
7:00ish: Music Starts – Chloe will play two approximately 45 minute sets with a break in between.
9:00ish: Post-Show – Hang out, talk to the artists and buy some merch.
