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If there’s one band that has best defined the joyful, eclectic, memorable aura of Charleston, SC over the years, it’s this fun 5-piece band. Afro-Caribbean rhythms, New Orleans brass blasts, folk/Americana wisdom, plus a few surprises. It’s been too long since we’ve had them by! They’ll be in Tryon Friday evening for the kickoff of the Summer Tracks series, the Get Off the Grid Fest in Spartanburg in August, then their own Sol Slam Mountain Jam in Erwin, TN: a three-day rafting and camping music festival that takes place on the banks of the Nolichucky River.

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We’re blessed to have some of the world’s best bluegrass bands right here in Western NC, and one of them is Unspoken Tradition, with a new album called “Imaginary Lines”. Their latest single from it, “California”, just reached #1 on the Bluegrass Today chart. The band is comprised of Sav Sankaran (bass), Audie McGinnis (guitar), brother Zane McGinnis (banjo), Ty Gilpin (mandolin), and Tim Gardner (fiddle). They just got booked to play Tryon’s Summer Tracks series this Friday the 1st (Rogers Amphitheatre, downtown Tryon), and we’re able to get them into Studio B beforehand to ce...

Around Town: Summer Concert Series begins downtown; Tryon hosts Summer Tracks