Sapphic Sounds
Saturday, June 28, 2025 at The Annex SAPPHIC SOUNDS This year, we’re turning up the volume with a Sapphic Battle of the Bands — a queer music showdown that’s loud, proud, and bursting with talent from 5 bands. Expect good vibes, bold sounds, exclusive merch, and a space where sapphic joy takes center stage. Tickets: $25 advance // $30 day of show Doors 6pm // Music 7pm 21+ “Sapphic Sounds is a Pride celebration of love, identity, and community for women who love women — including lesbians, bisexual women, trans women, pansexual women, queer women, and nonbinary sapphics. The term “sapphic” comes from the ancient Greek poet Sappho, whose words about love between women continue to inspire LGBTQ+ culture today. Music by: WonderLand, Flor & the Fauna, Rachel & the JellyCats, The Storyweavers, Not Those Girls In Hampton Roads, sapphic-centered spaces are few and far between — but the need is loud and clear. That’s why LGBT Life Center is proud to host events that uplift and celebrate this powerful, passionate community. Every event in our Sapphic Series has shown us just how vital these gatherings are — and June 28th will be no different. This is more than a party — it’s visibility, it’s connection, it’s celebration.”
Fireside Collective at The Annex
LAVA Presents:Thursday, August 14, 2025 at The Annex Fireside Collective with special guests to be announced Tickets $17 adv // $22 day of show Doors 7pm // Music 8pm All Ages — Check out Fireside Collective! Inspired by the burgeoning art scene, close knit community, and natural beauty of Asheville, North Carolina, newgrass turned eclectic jam band Fireside Collective has been spent a decade working towards this very pinnacle. Original band members Joe Cicero, guitar, Jesse Iaquinto, mandolin, Tommy Maher, resonator guitar, and Carson White, bass, began playing together in 2014 when Iaquinto gathered the group of bluegrass enthusiasts to back up some of his original songwriting. When they began touring again after covid, Fireside drew inspiration from jambands like The Grateful Dead, the group’s agreed upon North Star. There was significantly more improvisation, changing setlists from night to night, and longer musical movements. With the introduction of Michael Tillis on drums in late 2023, the sound expanded to include heavy funk elements as well as classic rock and even ventured into techno and world music. By the end of 2024, Fireside Collective had become a true hybrid, with a strong foundation in bluegrass and folk, and healthy doses of rock n’ roll and funk, all blended together in a unique and colorful amalgam of original music.
SOLD -OUT:ELSEWHERE: Jo Froxi, Vega, Rayvon, Flood
Traptastic Presents: ELSEWHERE feat. Jo Froxi Vega Rayvon Flood Doors at 10pm 21+ VERY limited complimentary tickets available Limited $10 & $15 tickets available while supplies lasts $20 advance $25 day of show
James McMurtry (full band) with Betty Soo at The Annex
North Shore Point House Concerts Presents: Sunday, September 21, 2025 at The Annex James McMurtry (full band) with Betty Soo Tickets:Standing GA – $27 Reserved Seat- SOLD OUT – $37 ***guarantees a seat – NOT a specific seat, there are no seat numbers*** Doors 6pm // Music 7pm All Ages — One critic says that James McMurtry writes as though he has spent time eavesdropping on conversations in every Dairy Queen in America. Stephen King, who owns a classic-rock station in Maine, has written that he “may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation.” Longtime critic Robert Christgau declared McMurtry’s “We Can’t Make It Here” the best song of the 2000s. He will be touring behind his first album in four years, “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy.” The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens). https://youtu.be/v8h5VdIe33o https://youtu.be/AWEJPqJtZsk https://youtu.be/PHMEmszc13o
Lua Flora + The Hookz at The Annex
LAVA Presents: Friday, August 8, 2025 at The Annex Lua Flora The Hookz Doors 7pm // Music 8pm Tickets $10 adv // $14 day of show
Wheatus – 25th Anniversary Tour
Legacy Concerts Presents:Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at The Annex Wheatus 25th Anniversary Tour playing the debut album in full, including “Teenage Dirtbag” with Don’t Panic +Red Weather Tickets: $25 adv // $28 day of show Doors 6:30pm // Music 7:30pm All Ages
Kelly Willis, Brennen Leigh, Melissa Carper at The Annex
North Shore Point House Concerts Presents: Thursday, July 17 at The Annex Kelly Willis Brennen Leigh Melissa Carper Doors 7pm // Music 8pm Tickets: $25 advance $28 day of show $32 reserved seating Fee free, physical tickets are available at Packed House – cash only. All Ages — When Kelly Willis, Melissa Carper, and Brennen Leigh – accomplished singer-songwriters who have forged unique lanes in country music – joined forces as a power trio, there was no more appropriate labeling themselves than Wonder Women of Country. Willis scored country hits with her solo albums after signing to MCA Records. Leigh has cultivated a following resurrecting honky tonk that attracted collaborators like Asleep at the Wheel and fans in Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark. Carper, raised on Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, “sounds like a voice from a bygone era . . . evoking the cool, smoky croon of a lounge singer,” according to Rolling Stone. “A delightful country buffet, Willis, Carper, Leigh pulls on the superpowers of three of the genre’s ever-dwindling purists,” wrote the Austin Chronicle about their debut EP. Now, they’re together, merging their superpowers. Look and listen: Another Broken Heart What I Deserve
Fake Happy: A Tribute to Paramore ***CANCELLED***
LAVA Presents:Friday, June 13, 2025 at The Annex Fake Happy: A Tribute to Paramore support to be announced Doors 7pm // Music 8pm Tickets $15 adv // $20 day of show All Ages
Stuck Down, 2 To a room, Heavy Weight Champs, Rose Milk at The Annex
LAVA Presents: Saturday, May 24, 2025 at The Annex Stuck Down 2 to a room Heavy On The Heart Rose Milk Tickets $10 Doors 7pm // Music 8pm All Ages
The Birthday Massacre, Messenger, at The Annex
Legacy Concerts Presents:Friday, April 25, 2025 at The Annex The Birthday Massacre Messenger Doors 7m // Music 8pm Tickets $25 adv // $30 day of show VIP Meet & Greet – $99 – includes ticket to show *starts at 6pm All Ages VIP Meet & Greet -One general admission ticket -Early entry into the venue -Exclusive meet & greet with The Birthday Massacre -Personal photograph with The Birthday Massacre -Autographed Tour Poster -Official meet & greet laminate & lanyard -Priority merchandise shopping -Limited availability
