185 King Street opened its doors in 2009 with a mission of supporting local musicians as the first entertainment business in the Lumberyard Arts District.
…185 King Street is not as much an address as it is a destination. Located minutes from downtown Brevard in the shadows of the former Brevard railroad station, this new venue for local music is about people of all walks of life finding a place where they can enjoy good times and great music together and turn what had recently been an overlooked location in a vibrant arts community into something that belongs to them.
Upcoming Bluegrass and Traditional Concerts:
- March 5 – Chatham Rabbits, 8:00 pm, $15.00. North Carolina is a place so identifiable by its separate regions – the mountains, the piedmont, the coast – that it has the tendency to feel indescribable, meaning one can conceptualize the state as a mashup of places rather than a single locale. The art and artists born from the state often embody that same sense of blended regions, borrowing from broad cultural traditions and plumbing the histories of others’ stories on the way to telling their own. Because of this, many North Carolina artists can call a particular region home, but their work belongs to the state because the entirety of the state has opened itself to them and they have opened themselves to it. Chatham Rabbits exemplify North Carolina’s tradition of producing artists who embrace the state’s many cultural resources and diverse musical traditions.
- March 10 – Tray Wellington, 7:00 pm $12.00 advance/$15.00 day of show. Tray Wellington Band is a high energy acoustic Newgrass group led by banjo virtuoso, and multi-time IBMA Award winner, and 2019 Momentum Instrumentalist of the year Tray Wellington. This group pushes the bounds of bluegrass music, incorporating Bossa Nova, Jazz, and Blues elements, to their originals to create a unique, new exciting sound, as well as pay tribute to their Bluegrass heroes before them. They have opened for a number of premiere artists in bluegrass including Dan Tyminski, and Joe Mullins.
- March 12 – B-Town Live Bread of Life Benefit Concert, 5:00 pm, $25.00 advance, $30.00 day of show. (This is a local fundraiser, No Refunds) Join us for full evening of incredible local music all in the name of raising funds for our local soup kitchen, Bread of Life. The house band for the evening is the Squibblers made up of Jeff Sipe, Howie Johnson, Mark McDaniel and Derek Sandlin with special guest Kevin Spears (Kalimba Man). Local bands, Pretty Little Goat, SOHCAHTOA and the New Elementals will also take the stage throughout the evening. A portion of the show will be broadcast live on White Squirrel Radion (Q102). Be sure to tune in.
- March 24 – Foreign Landers, 7:00 pm, Free show. The Foreign Landers is a duo hailing from opposite sides of the Atlantic united by their love of bluegrass and traditional folk music and their love for each other. Together they combine the musical styles of their respective homelands, along with their instrumental prowess and haunting vocals to create something new.
- March 26 – Jon Stickley Trio with Gary McCullough, 7:00 pm $20.00 general admission. Jon Stickley Trio is a genre-defying and cinematic instrumental trio, who’s deep grooves, innovative flatpicking, and sultry-spacy violin moves the listener’s head, heart, and feet. “It’s not your father’s acoustic-guitar music—although Stickley’s pop showed him his first chords when he was 12 years old. Instead, Stickley’s Martin churns out a mixture of bluegrass, Chuck Berry, metal, prog, grunge, and assorted other genres—all thoroughly integrated into a personal style,” writes Guitar Player Magazine. Gary McCullough is a Boone-based singer-songwriter who spent his formative years in Athens, Georgia. His musical influences are broad and include insightful singer-songwriters from Jackson Browne and James Taylor to Jason Isbell and John Moreland, as well as southern country/rock bands like the Drive by Truckers and Lucero. He has just recently released his first album, Hard Climb, recorded in Asheville and is back in the studio working on a second.
- April 2 – Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters w/ Opener Josh and Mallory Carter, 8:00 pm, $20.00. The music of Asheville, North Carolina based outfit Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters is nuanced, bringing insight and wit to the stories Platt tells through songwriting. Lyrically driven, the band’s country roots music often inspires introspection, whether it be about life on the road, heartache or hope.
- May 14 – Sam Burchfield & The Scoundrels, 8:00 pm, $10.00 advance / $12.00 day of show. Raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains of South Carolina, Sam Burchfield was brought up on Appalachian music: folk, gospel, country and southern soul. The young songwriter draws on these roots with a deep lyrical honesty that carries the tradition of folk music forward. Burchfield’s latest album, ‘Graveyard Flower’, seeks to reconnect to the Appalachian roots that raised him. In a world of cell phones and internet distractions, this body of work beckons the listener to plant their feet firmly in the soil. Reconnect to the land, reconnect to each other; ‘Graveyard Flower’ is honest music.
