PATIO: Phuncle Sam
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE PHUNCLE SAM Asheville’s own Dead-Centric “jam band”. Since their formation in 2004, Phuncle Sam has been firmly rooted in musical exploration. The band serves up inventive interpretations of Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, and many others. They have built up a faithful following by using an approach that respects the improvisational traditions of The Grateful Dead, while exploring what can happen when individual band members bring their unique influences and interpretations into the mix.
PATIO: Dirty Dead
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE DIRTY DEAD The guys who keep breaking boundaries with their grungy-rock boogie versions of the Grateful Dead songbook. Fronted by flautist Paul DeCirce, “the Pied Piper of Asheville” (Mountain Xpress), The Grey Eagle are pleased to host these legends of the local jam scene.
PATIO: Dirty Dead
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE DIRTY DEAD The guys who keep breaking boundaries with their grungy-rock boogie versions of the Grateful Dead songbook. Fronted by flautist Paul DeCirce, “the Pied Piper of Asheville” (Mountain Xpress), The Grey Eagle are pleased to host these legends of the local jam scene.
PATIO: Laurel Canyon East
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE LAUREL CANYON EAST Laurel Canyon East brings their trademark folk rock vibe. Come on out and experience the best of the Laurel Canyon sound from the 60’s and 70s. The Byrds, SCN, Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and so much more. Capturing the spirit of collective creativity and spreading the love, we hope you will join us to celebrate, enjoy friendship, and live music on The Grey Eagle Patio!
PATIO: Moon Water
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE MOON WATER The mother/daughter duo whose tight blood harmonies drive the music, came to be during the covid-19 pandemic when Jenny Bradley, a single mom, moved her two kids, Blu Belle and Bud, to The Appalachian Mountains from Manhattan, New York. Having grown up in the south, Jen got reconnected to her roots and started playing old hymns and mountain music with her kids. Without much work due to the pandemic and being free of the bustle that is NYC, Jen had time on her hands to write more music and contemplate what’s important in life. As a cancer survivor, she found new joy and appreciation for life and nature on the mountain top and began singing about it. Blu started experimenting with fiddle, lap steel and bass and Moon Water was born. Bud sits in occasionally on drums as well. Why Moon Water? A month after arriving in Western North Carolina, Blu collected rain water before the Flower Moon and then sat it out the night of the full moon. There, the water became moon water and they keep it in a mason jar as their positive energy force for musical inspiration.
Richard Shindell
ALL AGES SEATED SHOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE RICHARD SHINDELL Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery and busked in the streets of Paris. Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full- length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play—as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.” During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies. MANY A SHIP Many a Ship is an indie-folk-rock band deeply rooted in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Formed in 2017, this group of musical friends was drawn together by Vickie Burick (Warm the Bell, Nevada), united to craft a new sound, drenched in inspiration from nature, humanity, frailty, nostalgia and love. Burick serves as the anchor to this ever changing crew of shipmates that harbor in each performance— her original songs taking on new life and energy with each configuration, just like the ebb and flow of the tides. Original members included Burick on vocals, songwriting, guitar; Josh Gibbs (Dave Desmelik, Camp David, Velvet Truckstop) on lap steel, Andy Gibbon (Dave Desmelik,Why Why) on bass, and Sam Brinkley (Raif Hollister) on drums/vocals. Additional crew include Elizabeth Terry (violin), Stevie Lee Combs (guitar), Sarah McCoy (keys, harmonium, vocals) and William Drake (guitar). Collectively their music is a sea of stories about life, love, heartache, truth and hope.
Red Baraat
ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY RED BARAAT Red Baraat is a pioneering band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by dhol player Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound, a merging of hard driving Punjabi rhythms with elements of hip-hop, jazz and raw punk energy. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. The band’s 2017 NPR Tiny Desk Concert is touted as the #8 best of all time by Vulture Magazine. Red Baraat has toured the globe the past 16 years with stops at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD festivals (Australia, New Zealand, Spain, UK), Dubai World Expo 2021, just to name a few. Along the way they sold out rooms as diverse as the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the New York City’s legendary rock club Bowery Ballroom, and performed at the request of The White House (Obama), TED, London Olympic Games, and Padma Lakshmi’s Blossom Ball. Red Baraat’s debut release, Chaal Baby (2010) set the band on a whirlwind USA tour as well as performances at Montreal Jazz Festival, Molde International Jazz Festival and opening for Gil-Scot Heron and Sharon Jones at the Pori Jazz Festival. They caught the ears of international audiences and in 2012, the band debuted in the UK with performances at Bestival, Sfinks Festival, The Barbican and closing ceremony for the Paralympics at Trafalgar Square. The Guardian (UK) said the band’s music brought a “punk spirit.” Then the release of Red Baraat’s 2nd album in 2013, Shruggy Ji, debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Music charts and propelled the band on a nonstop world tour that only halted in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. There are too many performances to recount, but they clock in at over 700 clubs and festivals worldwide. One special moment of note was in 2015 at Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD festival in UK. The band magically stopped a 2-day continuous downpour, parted the clouds and brought the sun out at as thousands danced in their galoshes. 2018 saw the band touring Kazakhstan, United Arab Emirates, US, Canada and Europe. They headlined the renowned WOMAD Festival in Cáceres, Spain in front of 10,000 people, performed the Vienna Konzerthaus (Philharmonie) in Austria, played their first show in Mexico City at Radical Mestizo Festival, and had the crowd jumping at Rudolstadt Festival in Germany. It’s clear that Red Baraat has built a startling history of performances all over the world the last 16 years – communing with their audience in a joyful, near hedonistic celebration of music and dance which, tellingly, draws a crowd even more diverse than the players on stage. The universality of what Red Baraat does is undeniable. And this is no happy accident. It is the product of intention and design. Says Jain, “The band…our songs…are addressing the multiplicity of viewpoints,” says Jain. “There’s ‘Zindabad,’ which means ‘Long Live’ in Hindi. In that song, we’re saying that we celebrate life, we celebrate devotion — but we also celebrate agitation and revolution. If we can unite people of all backgrounds and ethnicities to partake in the exuberance of life through the universal language of music, then life is that much sweeter.”
ROCK N ROLL REWIND
ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY ROCK N ROLL REWIND ROCK N ROLL REWIND IS A COLLABORATION OF MUSICIANS / FRIENDS FROM ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA. FOUNDED IN 2023 BY NATIONAL RECORDING ARTIST & SESSION DRUMMER MIKE HUNNICUTT, THIS BAND IS PACKED WITH SEASONED PROS WHO’VE ROCKED OUT ALONGSIDE LEGENDS LIKE KID ROCK, SEVENDUST, CREED, GODSMACK, HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH, WARRANT, JACKYL, WARREN HAYNES AND GOVERNMENT MULE, DRIVIN N CRYIN, SPONGE, THE WALLFLOWERS, ARTIMUS PYLE (LEGENDARY LYNARD SKYNARD DRUMMER), SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, MONSTER MAGNET, 38 SPECIAL, AND CORROSION OF CONFORMITY – JUST TO NAME A FEW!PREPARE TO JOURNEY BACK TO THE FABULOUS ERA OF AQUA NET, LEATHER JACKETS, AND SPANDEX AS THEY DELIVER ELECTRIFYING HITS FROM THE 70s THROUGH THE 90s AND BEYOND! ROCK N ROLL REWIND PROVIDES AN EXCITING LISTENING EXPERIENCE FEATURING SOARING GUITARS, STRONG BASS LINES, DYNAMIC DRUMING PATTERNS, AND POWERHOUSE VOCALS THAT OUTSHINE TYPICAL COVER BANDS. GET SET FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE!
St. Paddy’s Celebration with Lyndsay Pruett Express
ALL AGES STANDING ROOM ONLY 6:30PM DOORS / 7:30PM SHOW Lyndsay Pruett Express Come kick it with us at The Grey Eagle for St. Patrick’s Day with Lyndsay Pruett Express! Lyndsay Pruett is a fiddler about town who plays in the Jon Stickley Trio and the John Henry’s. She’s put together a band of local bluegrass boys featuring Jason Flournoy, Drew Matulich and Rick Cooper just for this occasion.
[CANCELED] John “Papa” Gros
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the upcoming John “Papa” Gros tour has been canceled. The refund process is underway now and ticket holders should see those funds returned to their account within 5-7 business days. We apologize for any inconvenience. ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY JOHN PAPA GROS “John “Papa” Gros is a bedrock New Orleans artist, a keyboardist, singer and songwriter who draws on funk, rhythm & blues and Americana songcraft; he also knows his way around the Mardi Gras music repertoire about as well as anyone.” – Keith Spera, The Advocate, July 2017 “Sharing New Orleans with the world is my calling,” says pianist and organist John “Papa” Gros (pronounced grow).“That’s what I have been doing and that’s what I’ll do with the rest of my life.” For over three decades, Gros has brought his city’s celebratory culture to listeners around the globe. Gros mixes all the sounds of New Orleans – funk, trad jazz, brass band, blues – and makes it his own signature gumbo. His new solo album Central City, shows Gros capturing New Orleans’ distinct feel-good charm with help from some of its’ most renowned players. Gros began playing gigs when he was just fifteen years old but didn’t truly kick off his career until after graduating from Loyola in 1989 with a degree in French Horn performance. During the seminal years that followed, the young man cut his teeth as a solo performer on Bourbon Street while also developing a reputation as a formidable sideman. He backed up some of the biggest names in the Crescent City,: such as Meters bassist George Porter Jr. and guitarist Snooks Eaglin. Between 2000 and 2013, Gros began his transition into the spotlight by leading Papa Grows Funk, a highly revered group that mixed hard-hitting funk grooves with often unpredictable jazz spontaneity. The band released six critically-acclaimed studio albums while touring the U.S. and far off countries like Japan and Brazil. This year, John “Papa” Gros released Central City, his third solo album. The album is a collection of classic New Orleans songs, both new and old, filtered through his decades of dedication to his craft. The album features Gros’ feel good originals alongside his takes on beloved songs by Allen Toussaint, Lloyd Price, and John Prine. Joining Gros on the album are a who’s who in the keepers of the New Orleans tradition, who perfectly exploit the similarities between New Orleans jazz and early rock ‘n’ roll on songs such as “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and “Personality.” Gros absorbed a lifetime of lessons and became part of the direct lineage of New Orleans music. “I’m walking in the same path as Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, and Art Neville,” explains Gros. “I’ve been following them my whole life. Now, they’re no longer in front of me. They’ve gotten off the path but the path is still very clear.”
