August 16, 2025 Saturday
The Wood Brothers
with Mason Via
at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall

The Wood Brothers is currently on tour in support of their forthcoming album Puff Of Smoke (due August 1 via Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers). The tour will stop by the newly re-opened Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, on August 16, 2025.

We saw The Wood Brothers in May 2023 and said, “The Wood Brothers opened the evening with “Pilgrim”, the first song from their latest Heart is the Hero. Although Chris and Oliver are indeed brothers, their journey to form their group took a circuitous route. After high school, Chris took his upright bass to study jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music and play with a fusion jazz band Medeski, Martin and Woods. Chris took his electric guitar and headed for the road to form the traveling bar band King Johnson. They have been playing together with Jano Rix on drums since 2004 and their sound consists of folk and blues, but they are not opposed to throwing in a little funk and R&B.”

Mason Via to open. We saw Via in and wrote, “The evening got underway with a well-received 35min. set from Nashville via Appalachia (sort of) newcomer, Mason Via, playing traditional Country / roots bluegrass selections from his two solo albums. We say sort of, because Via was formerly the youngest member of Old Crow Medicine Show and has been in KC previously as part of the huge Folk Alliance International annual conference and gathering.”

Tour dates:

7/16 – Kansas City, MO – Grinders KC *
7/17 – Salina, KS – The Stiefel Theatre *
7/18 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre #
7/19 – Paonia, CO – Big B’s Delicious Orchards
8/7 – Deerfield, MA – Tree House Brewing Company
8/8 – Lowell, MA – Lowell Summer Music Series
8/9 – Stowe, VT – Strawberry Jam Festival
8/10 – Westport, CT – Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts
8/12 – Annapolis, MD – Maryland Hall
8/13 – Richmond, VA – The National
8/14 – Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
8/15 – Charleston, SC – The Refinery
8/16 – Ponte Vedra Beach, FL – Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
8/29 – Mill Spring, NC – Earl Scruggs Music Festival
8/31 – Charlestown, RI – Rhythm & Roots Festival
9/10-09/13 – Las Vegas, NV – Bender Jamboree Fest
9/19-09/20 – Chattanooga, TN – IBMA Bluegrass Live!
11/6 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre
11/7 – Columbus, OH – The Bluestone
11/8 – Louisville, KY – Old Forester’s Paristown Hall
11/9 – Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre
11/11 – Springfield, MO – Gillioz Theatre
11/12 – Iowa City, IA – The Englert Theatre
11/13 – Minneapolis, MN – Pantages Theatre
11/14 – Madison, WI – Wisconsin Union Theater – Shannon Hall
11/15 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
12/3 – York, PA – Appell Center for the Performing Arts
12/4 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
12/5 – Allentown, PA – Archer Music Hall
12/6 – Ithaca, NY – State Theatre of Ithaca
12/7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre
12/10 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
12/12 – Portland, ME – State Theatre
12/13 – Lebanon, NH – Lebanon Opera House
# w/ The String Cheese Incident
* w/ St. Paul & The Broken Bones

August 18, 2025 Monday
Phoneboy
at Jack Rabbits
jaxlive.com

New York’s Phoneboy is supposed to play Jack Rabbits, in Jacksonville, on August 18, 2025… but the original list has been removed and all indications is that the show is cancelled.

The band last played July 6th, in Woodstock, New York… which their comment suggests is their last date of the tour:

aaaand that’s a wrap on the summer heartbreak designer tour 🙂

toronto and woodstock thanks for making these last two shows such a blast!!! and to everyone who came out to a show these past few months we love you and we’ll be seeing you again very very soon ❤

H.A.G.S Y’ALL

We last mentioned the band appearing in St Paul (with Beach Weather) in March 2024.

August 20, 2025 Wednesday
The Red Clay Strays
at The St. Augustine Amphitheatre
theamp.com

CMA Vocal Group of the Year nominees and music’s fastest-rising bands The Red Clay Strays has sold out the Amp, in St Augustine (about an hour from Jacksonville, Florida).

The Red Clay Strays are Brandon Coleman (lead vocals, guitar, keys), Drew Nix (electric guitar, vocals, harmonica), Zach Rishel (electric guitar), Andrew Bishop (bass), John Hall (drums), and Sevans Henderson (keys).

Tour Dates: