We know how much Stopover fans love great music, and our friends at Savannah Music Festival are bringing some great acts to town over the next 17 days! We’re particularly excited to see Stopover alums Futurebirds, T. Hardy Morris and Dumpstaphunk back in Savannah.
Stopover Fans have access to a 15% discount for those and any of the shows listed below.
Futurebirds / T. Hardy Morris
FRIDAY, MARCH 29 @ 8 PM @ LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS
Rock juggernaut Futurebirds is an Athens, Georgia based group described by singer/guitarist Carter King as “always too indie rock for the jam festival, too country for the indie scene, a little too psych-rock to feel like we were Americana.” Founding members King, Savannah native Daniel Womack, singer/guitarist Thomas Johnson and bassist Brannen Miles began playing together as students at UGA. In recent years, the quartet has added pedal steel player Kiffy Myers, keyboardist Spencer Thomas and drummer Tom Myers.
Opening the show is fellow Athenian T. Hardy Morris, an insightful songwriter and frontman who has drawn from his early experience with psych rockers Dead Confederate and the indie supergroup Diamond Rugs (with members of Deer Tick, Los Lobos, and Black Lips). His latest release The Digital Age of Rome is an incisive rock album centered on the idea that technology doesn’t necessarily equal progress.
Crescent City Funk: Dumpstaphunk / Cha Wa
FRIDAY, APRIL 5 @ 5:30 PM @ SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM
FRIDAY, APRIL 5 @ 9 PM @ SHIPS OF THE SEA MARITIME MUSEUM
Dumpstaphunk is simply one of the funkiest bands out of the Crescent City. Born on the Jazz & Heritage Festival stage, and composed of Neville and Meters family bloodlines, the group ignites deep, gritty grooves that keep audiences on their feet. Alongside Tony Hall, Nick Daniels, Alex Wasily, John Michael Bradford and Deven Trusclair, cousins Ivan and Ian Neville have built upon their family’s iconic New Orleans legacy as they’ve transformed Dumpstaphunk into the city’s pre-eminent 21st-century funk-fusion ensemble.
New Orleans brass band-meets-Mardi Gras Indian outfit Cha Wa radiates the energy of the city’s street culture. Their joyous music distills generations of New Orleans expression, and their name comes from a traditional Mardi Gras Indian shout. The ensemble is a new chapter in that tradition that celebrates African and Native American heritage, expanding it by incorporating second line brass, hip-hop and sweet soul music. PopMatters describes Cha Wa as “a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves that are impossible to resist.”
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 @ 8 PM @ LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS
Grammy Award-winning guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has quickly become the defining blues voice of his generation. From his hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi to stages around the globe, the young blues star has already headlined multiple U.S. and European tours. Selected in summer 2022 to open for The Rolling Stones in London’s Hyde Park, Kingfish has also performed and toured with friends including Vampire Weekend, Jason Isbell, Steve Miller and Buddy Guy, a mentor of his, with whom he appeared on Austin City Limits and at the 2023 Savannah Music Festival at Trustees’ Garden. Don’t miss his first headlining show at SMF!
“Kingfish is one of the most exciting young guitarists in years, with a sound that encompasses B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Prince.”
–Rolling Stone
Madison Cunningham / Juana Molina
THURSDAY, APRIL 11 @ 7 PM @ TRUSTEES THEATER
Madison Cunningham is a 26-year- old Grammy Award-winning artist and songwriter known for her “wonderfully tangled imagery and cutting self-awareness” (NPR). As a guitarist, Madison has pushed the boundaries of a conventional singer-songwriter as her “guitar work is both classic and wildly emotive, and her soaring vocals are pristine and inspired” (Consequence of Sound). Madison first picked up a guitar at an early age, and was singing and performing alongside her five siblings in church by the time she was twelve. Cunningham’s recent album Revealer won the Grammy Award for “Best Folk Album.”
A master of mysterious experimental pop, Juana Molina is recognized as a wholly original, visionary artist whose work has been championed by the likes of David Byrne and Will Oldham. Her career trajectory has been unique, from initial success as a popular comedic actress in her native Argentina to her decision to devote herself to forging her own inimitable style of music. That decision has since gained her worldwide recognition as a critically-lauded recording and touring artist, who The New York Times says “doesn’t imitate anyone. She has too much fun just being herself.”
Mighty Poplar
FRIDAY, APRIL 12 @ 8:30 PM @ LUCAS THEATRE FOR THE ARTS
Featuring Noam Pikelny and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers), Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse) and Greg Garrison (Leftover Salmon)
At its heart, bluegrass music is about what happens when you commit to the moment. The joy of improvisation keeps the music fresh. This true spirit of bluegrass infuses Mighty Poplar, a new all-star roots project featuring Andrew Marlin, Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge and bassist Greg Garrison. Regarded as some of the finest players of their generation, the playing is never showy and always in service of the song. Though Pikelny, Eldridge and Garrison all knew each other from their early work with Punch Brothers, impromptu backstage jams with Marlin at festivals across the country were the key that unlocked the project.
