The Way Station Music Festival Day 1: Floco Torres + Bryan Cahall + The Prospect Jug Peddlers + Cornbred

8pm- Floco Torres (Macon, GA)
Genre: Alternative Hip-Hop

A smart, provocative and playful lyricist, Floco Torres slings references as divergent as the movie “Catch Me If You Can,” highlight reels from ESPN’s Sportscenter, the books of Malcolm Gladwell, Nickelodeon cartoons and Petula Clark’s greatest hits. And he hammers it home with a flow that glides over any beat thrown his way. As good as his studio work is, it is his stage show that has endeared him to a growing number of fans because he never holds back.

“Floco Torres is everything a talented MC should be” - Andy Mchorter

www.flocotorres.com

9pm- Bryan Cahall
Genre: Folk/singer-songwriter
For fans of: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Utah Phillips

Bryan Cahall is a storyteller, poet, and singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY.  To date, his work is minimalistic—humble tunes meant to elevate some thoughtful and agile lyricism.  And with debts to Southern blues and gospel, Irish balladry, the winking pathos of the Dust Bowl-era songsters, and the folk revivalists of the 1960's, it is distinctly American.  There is a rich tradition of singing poets who've seen themselves foremost as witnesses and keepers of cultural memory and who've shared their gifts of expression to inspire, to console, to remind, and to widen their circle of sympathetic fellows.  Keeping with this, Bryan regards music and poetry together as a communal labor of creation, a form of leisure, and the antidote to a certain lonesomeness.

reverbnation.com/bryancahall

10pm- The Prospect Jug Peddlers
Genre: Ragtime, Jug Band, Pre-war country blues, Depression era jazz
For fans of: Blind Blake, Memphis Jug Band, Mississippi Sheiks, Old Crow Medicine Show

Recent west coast transplants, “The Prospect Jug Peddlers” blend ragtime, blues and vintage jazz to create a unique sound more reminiscent of something you’d find in Tin Pan Alley during the 1920s than anything relative in today’s world. Don’t let the juxtaposition of baldness and dreadlocks throw you; these guys have got that ragtime swing that’ll keep you and yer miss dancin’ all night. Featuring the New Jersey darling “Miss Schmidt” on mandolin.

Rag Mama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zchAt3Fxlnk

11pm- Cornbred
Genre: Blues / Afrillachian / Footstompin Craziness
For fans of: Official Joe Cocker, Dr. John, Black Diamond Heavies, The Black Keys, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie

From the depths of of the hollars of Appalachia, the musicians of TN congregate in the dirty little river town known as Knoxville. In a town where you can throw a stick and hit 10 musicians on a Friday night in the old city, it takes a lot to continue the craft there. Cornbred is a culmination, the residue that's left in the bottom of the bottle of Knoxville's music scene. A collective of serious musicians who have unpretentiously dedicated themselves to the craft of musically taking an audience to a place emotionally, and sometimes intellectually, where the truths of living in modern Appalachia can be experienced, not just commented on.

http://www.reverbnation.com/cornbredblues