A chronicle of the Upstate South Carolina music community and beyond
By DAN ARMONAITIS As Dirty Grass Soul prepares to host its New Year’s Eve Festival on Tuesday, Dec. 31 at Grassy Pond Arena in Gaffney, it’s worth noting that the wildly entertaining alt-country band recently returned home from its first-ever international gig. Dirty Grass Soul was a part of Country Read More
By DAN ARMONAITIS When Raleigh, N.C.-based journalist, musician and author Thomas Goldsmith, better known as Tommy, thinks about the area of the country he’s headed to this weekend in promotion of his new book, “Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic,” he immediately recognizes how Read More
Charleston-based singer-songwriter Grace Joyner will bring her dreamy indie pop sound to The Velo Fellow, 1 Augusta St. #126, Greenville, on Friday, Nov. 22, sharing a bill with the similarly atmospheric but stylistically different Mourning Dove. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. Joyner has received critical acclaim for her 2016 album, “Maybe Read More