Sylvia Theater Recent Acts

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.

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.

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....

She plays regularly in New York City with her band at venues such as The Living Room, Makor, and The Bitter End, at festivals across the country including South by Southwest, The Heart of Texas Music Festival, NEMO (Boston), The Dewey Beach Festivals, The Black Potato Music Festival (NJ), and at The National Association of College Activities (NACA) Conferences where she was awarded three showcases within her first year. She also frequents Folk Series such as The Eclectic Cafe (Bayshore, NY) and Acoustic Long Island (St. James, NY). She recently opened for Pete Seeger at The Beacon Sloop Club's Alternative Energy Festival (Beacon, NY). Other venues of interest where she has performed include The Stanhope House (NJ), World Cafe Live (Philadelphia), Flipnotics (Austin, TX), and Club Passim (Boston).

The New Voice of Country Music
Selected by CMA as a country star to watch
2-Time selection as Best Male Vocalist by Country Stars Online
Ansel Brown's debut CD will be available at the show, 3 weeks before it will be available to the rest of the country.
Meet & greet for autographs and pics with Ansel after the performance.

with opening by

Stevie Coyle (late of the whiz-bang string band The Waybacks) is one lucky bum. His dad ran a radio station in southern California and brought home all the promo LPs that didn't fit the Spanish-language format. The Ventures' Guitar Freakout, The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett and Alvin And The Chipmunks Play The Beatles' Hits all came home on a single fateful day. It didn't hurt, either, that string-meister David Lindley played in a bluegrass band that rehearsed right next door and gave Stevie his very first lessons, or that his dear Granny was a pianist in the heyday of vaudeville and that his sainted mother was a whiz in mandolin orchestras during the 1930s.  Stevie has degrees in both Theater and Theology and 

"Guitar-toting folkie Ian Thomas may reside in New York City, but his sound bypasses the concrete jungle for the deep rural territories of acoustic blues. For a youngster, Thomas has an astonishing command of his sound; this is timeless material expertly performed.  Thomas effortlessly bounces through jaunty rags, crying ballads and gentle folk, treating each style with casual reverence. Many of his songs are Dylanesque, but Thomas never seems to be copying the Minnesota marvel. Instead, their similarities arise from a common way of viewing the American music canon.  Thomas delves into gut-wrenching poetics and rousing raves, each with the same charming result." -- cdbaby.com/cd/ianthomas

The members of the Holy Ghost Tent Revival assembled out of a singular, driving purpose: to bring the sounds that will make your mothers chant; the sounds that will make your fathers get up and dance; to make the preacher man's daughter blush and turn the volume up on her stereo just a little bit more......  These young men guarantee honesty in the hopes that you may think of their words when joys or troubles involve themselves in your life, but most importantly, they wish to extend their love for all your kind words and support as they grow in their mission to bring the good-time sounds of the Carolinas to those in need of just that. Pull a chair up and listen close to the beat, and hopefully you'll like what you hear.

"With a sound all their own and a stage show to match, Bombadil is, if nothing else, one of the freshest bands to emerge in a long time. Formed by Daniel Michalak, Bryan Rahija and Stuart Robinson, this band draws on a unique mélange of influences to create a sound that is unclassifiable. .....A circus-reared version of The Band was born in Bolivia where Michalak and Rahija first met. The folk music indigenous to the region lit a creative spark and inspired the two to begin 

growing Charlotte music scene, he has hit the road.  Surrounded by the plethora of aspiring musicians who have moved to New York City, Joshua has been able to distinguish himself with his truly breathtaking and soulful voice. Influenced by legends like Bob Dylan and Sam Cooke, and peers like Ian Thomas and Austin Hill, Joshua has blended folk and soul and poetry and created a truly powerful and sophisticated sound.