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Sylvia Theater Recent Acts

Some past events at the Sylvia Theater

Click on underlined names below to see performers web site

 

 
Big Time Entertainment @ the Sylvia Theater
  Sun
Sept 9
Big Time Entertainment Presents:
$10
A showcase of up and coming bands!

  
James Mathis
Mono/Stereo
Bryan Harper

Dylan Gilbert
Refugee
Philmont!

 

Show starts at 6:30 PM
Tickets are $10 at the door
 
Big Time Entertainment @ the Sylvia Theater
  Sun
Sept 23
Big Time Entertainment Presents:
$10
A showcase of up and coming bands!

  
The Oceans Between Us
Restless Oblivion
The Straplocks
Decaying Face Down

Left with Ashes

Mysteriarch

 

Show starts at 6:30 PM
Tickets are $10 at the door
 
  Friday
Oct 5
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
*FREE
Featured guests :

Alan 
Barrington

Dianna Parks

Jason 
Broadwater

and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine


Future shows:

November 2nd - Bentz Kirby and TBA
December 7th - Hannah Miller and TBA
January 4th - Scott Hinkle and TBA
 

 
Big Time Entertainment @ the Sylvia Theater
  Wed
Oct 24
Big Time Entertainment Presents:
$10
A showcase of up and coming bands!

  
Josh Carter
Faking These Smiles
Scattered Souls
Broadcast Silence
Ashes of Eden
Catharsist

 

Show starts at 6:30 PM
Tickets are $10 at the door
 
  Friday
Nov 2
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
*FREE
Featured guests :

Bentz Kirby

Dave Lambert

and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine


Future shows:

December 7th - Hannah Miller & Bernadette Swayngim
January 4th - Scott Hinkle & Lee Sinclair
 

 
  Friday
Dec 7
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
*FREE
Featured guests :

Bernadette Swayngim

Hannah Miller

and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine


Future shows:

January 4th - Scott Hinkle & Lee Sinclair
Feb 1st - To be announced
Mar 7th - Tim Fast and TBA
 

 
  Tues
Dec 18

Christmas in Dixie

NC

A benefit concert for local friends in need featuring local musicians “unplugged” and Heathman Munn as the MC

Shaye Clayton
Rodney Taylor and JS Edmunds
Chief and Debbie McHargue
Sandy Norris, George White, and Stan Goodnow
Leo "Rooster" Reed
Bo Youngblood and Butch Watts
Jimmy Gladden and Amy Ramsey
Dean "Elvis" Dover
Tickets may be purchased at Hummingbird Forest, Duck Inn, Old Master Golf Shop and Irene's, (formerly Horne's restaurant).
Beer - $2.50.  Wine also available
For more information contact Jimmy Gladden 803-516-1673
Doors open at 6:00 PM.  Show starts at 7:00PM
 
  Wed
Dec 19
Will Hoge 
$15-$18

Decades ago, before the first rock and roll idols turned music into a product, musicians played music the way cobblers mended shoes and carpenters built homes. It was a trade like any other job and men did it for work, for wage. Young men would pack their station wagons with gear and travel from city to city to play their songs. For these musicians, it was not only all they wanted to do but all they could do. They were not in search of fame or fortune. It was simply a life in music.  Welcome to the world of Will Hoge.  Hoge's music is the unwavering sound of a born rocker. 

Hoge filters rock, soul, folk, blues and country through a prism of emotional authenticity. What emerges isn't a reinvention of the wheel, rather something undeniable, and the very definition of a force of nature. It is the music a man makes as he approaches the peak of his craft.  "And for it to mean something is all that matters. As a songwriter and performer, that's all I can do - try to write good songs, plug my Telecaster into an amp, play the very best I can and hope good things happen."

Doors open at 7 -  Showtime 7:30

Tickets are $15  at 

 or other
advanced sales outlets
or $18 day of show
 
  Friday
Jan 4
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
*FREE
Featured guests :

Lee Sinclair

Scott Hinkle

and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine


Future shows:

Feb 1st - PJ Brunson & Angelo Melendez
Mar 7th - Tim Fast and Greg Trafidlo
 

 
 Sat
Jan 26
Ian Thomas with
Paleface
$8-$10

Ian Thomas' debut album is a "fast, focused, forward-looking" powerhouse of acoustic blues from one of the most honest and engaging undiscovered singer-songwriters of our time.
After traveling the country for years with a guitar and a knapsack strapped to his back, Ian Thomas gave up the wandering life and settled into New York City, busking for cash and living out of a beaten-up 1977 Toyota Corolla. It is this unusual life story that forms the backdrop of "A Young Man's Blues", an album that is as mired in the confusion and paranoia of the modern world as it is rooted in traditional American folk and blues.

While the album invokes the likes of Bob Dylan, Son House, and Townes Van Zandt, in the words of reviewer Neal Block, "... Thomas's voice and vision are surely his own."

Fun-Lovin, Folkcore duo featuring 'Paleface' himself and darling drummer Mo. You might remember them as Just About To Burn...or you might recognize PF's vocals from The Avett Brother's records Emotionalism and Four Thieves Gone...Either way this dynamic duo's sweet charm & charisma will get you to listen, feel and enjoy!
Showtime is 9:00 PM
Tickets are $8 advanced sales or $10 Day of Show
 
  Friday
Feb 1
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
*FREE
Featured guests :

P J Brunson

Angelo Melendez

and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine


Future shows:

Mar 7th - Tim Fast and Greg Trafidlo
 

 
  Sat
Feb 2
American Songwriter Tour
$8-$10
Sponsored by 
American Songwriter Magazine
and featuring:

The Wrights

Stephen Simmons

Jason Eady
Doors open at 8:30 PM. Show starts at 9:00 PM
Tickets are $10 advanced sales or $12 day of show
 
  Friday
Feb 8
Brandon Pruitt 
$8-$10
This show will include Brandon's "Tribute to Johnny Cash" show and is the first in the "Sylvia's 2008 Tribute to Johnny Cash" series

Red-dirt troubadour Brandon Pruitt, was raised on hardscrabble American roots music, by blue-collar revolutionists like Johnny Cash and Hank Williams. Pruitt’s material covers the dark subject matter of his predecessors with songs about lovers done wrong to Christian ethos on heaven and hell.  “Growing up in Oklahoma has affected my music by always keeping me rooted and grounded in reality.  It has shaped my songwriting and every aspect of my life. From religion to sin, I owe everything to the red-dirt I grew up on”, says Pruitt.

Start time 9:00 PM
Tickets are $8 advanced sales or $10 at the door
 
  Tues
Feb 12
Vadim Davis Benefit
$8-$10
Showcasing Local- Homegrown - Talent !! 
 

click on his name, and it will lead you to a wonderland of info about “V”… his relentless fight…how to help him in his struggle with his cancer,  and all the facets of that very difficult…and  personal battle.

This spirit to “kick some behind”…and relent till you do just that…is what drives this 42 year old poppa, and lifelong music lover…American Patriot…former US Air Force, C-130 Hercules airplane Crew Chief …’round the globe, and then some.

All Proceeds from the Event will benefit our Brother,

Vadim, in his FIGHT to beat the odds...

 

Start time is 7:00 PM
$10 Donaton/admission
 
  Friday
Feb 29
Danielle Howle &
The Bowmans 
$10-$12*
We’re sooo happy to have Danielle Howle back…we love her so much. After show get-togethers are legend…much pickin’, laughin’ and good feelins ‘tween good friends. Y’all make time to get yourselves to one of these or any number of grass-roots, American Music…you’d be right at home…c’mon in…grab a drink and sing a song …for the night is always nigh…and this love will not go by…
"Danielle Howle is a Southern storyteller with a gorgeous sense of melody and a voice that should be pouring out of stereos everywhere... but she is true to the underground rock community that first nurtured her and has not made the leap to televised fame.  If she never gets there , consider yourself lucky to have found her , she is one to treasure."
 -NEW YORK TIMES

" I like to think of myself as a photographer that uses melody and words in place of film and camera . I just take pictures of time."
 -Danielle Howle
  

With harmonies that seem to come from one astonishing voice, The Bowmans share a rare, near telepathic musical bond. The Brooklyn based "roller coaster" duo ranges from poignantly captivating to serendipitously joyful. Their music is concurrently sophisticated and imaginative, blending together the preserved vulnerability and abandoned glee of their childhood. The Bowmans deeply move and 
delight their audience world wide with uncanny, evocative, and unforgettable performances.  Sweeping across a full range of passions, the cohesive debut album from The Bowmans, Far from Home, (Mother West Records) includes shattering acoustic harmony-rich ballads to heartening rock songs infused with early classical and gospel influences. The duo's sound has been compared to Gillian Welch, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, to name a few, but they are impossible to pigeonhole. Sarah and Claire Bowman have the unique intuitive connection common to twins who have performed together since youth, and because of this they are clearly always on the same musical page.
Start time 9:00 PM
*Tickets are $10 advanced sales or $12 day of show
 
  Friday
Mar 7
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
FREE*
Featured guests :

Greg Trafidlo

Tim Fast

 
and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine

 
Upcoming guests:

April 4th - Ashley Chambliss & Lindy Dobbins

May 2nd - Wicker and Jones

June 6th - Dorothy Potter

 
  Sat
Mar 8
The Folsom Prison Gang 
$10-$12*
This show is the 2nd in the "Sylvia's 2008 Tribute to Johnny Cash" series

The Folsom Prison Gang is a Johnny Cash tribute band located in Western North Carolina. The band consists of five musicians who have both love and respect for the music of Johnny Cash. The band performs at festivals and events around the Southeast.

Doors open at 8:30 PM  Show at 9:00 PM
*Tickets are $10 advanced sales or $12 day of show
 
  Fri
Mar 14
Asheville Songwriters Tour w/
Ashley Chambliss, Laura Blackley and Nikki Talley
$10*

Come and listen to 3 of the Southeast’s most prolific and celebrated young songwriters...and performers.  Their live performances are as different as night and day, but the thread that runs between is so very, very personal and melodic. The Sylvia Theater is thrilled to have Laura, Nikki and Ms Ashley back to her stage....

Doors open at 8:30 PM  Show at 9:00 PM
*Tickets are $10 advanced sales and day of show
 
  Sat
Mar 15
SODUN RECORDS PRESENTS:
Midnight Gospel
*
featuring:

The Holy Voices
Women of Strength
Alicia Jimson
and Brother Watermelon

Doors open at 8:30 PM  Show at 9:00 PM
*For tickets call 803-684-9808 
 
  Friday
Mar 28
The York Chamber 
Song Writer Night 
$5*

featuring John Craigie 
with Marie Calabro and Paul Finnican

John Craigie

Marie Calabro

Paul Finnican

Doors open at 8:30, Show at 9:00 - free popcorn!
*Tickets are $5.....$1 goes to the York Chamber for the promotion of the city of York
 
  Friday
April 4
Sylvia's Songwriters Round
FREE*
Featured guests :

Ashley Chambliss

Lindy Dobbins

 
and performing co-hosts

Herschel Lee Brown

 

                  Paul Finnican

Co-sponsored by the Sylvia Theater 
and the Rock Hill and Charlotte chapters of the 
Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).

You can see excerpts from these concerts on TV!
Tune to Time Warner Cable Channel 21 on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30pm for The Naked Truth TV show. 

Show starts at approximately 9:30 PM
(right after the 7:00pm movie)
*FREE ADMISSION - FREE POPCORN 
$1 domestics - $2 imports - $2 wine

 
Upcoming guests:

May 2nd - Wicker and Jones

June 6th - Dorothy Potter

 

 
  Fri
Apr 11
Gretchen Witt 
with
Erika Blatnik
$8-$10*

Gretchen Witt is an acoustic rock singer/songwriter with folk sensibilities. She was selected as a Finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk Competition, as a Top 5 Finalist in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival's Troubadour Competition, and has received multiple honors from the Mid Atlantic Song Contest (2007 Silver Prize in Folk Category for "Sun on My Back", 2007 Honorable Mention in Pop Category for "Sunday Night", 2007 Honorable Mention in Folk Category for "Say So", 2006 Honorable Mention in Folk Category for "Consequence", 2006 Honorable Mention in Folk Category for "Soft Spot").