Friday October 9th
Hendecatope
October 9th | 3:30 PM | The Grove
Hendecatope (Andrew Robbins) performs electronic music and soundscapes inspired by the world and experiences around them. Hendecatope has been performing in the Triangle area for over 25 years and is classically trained in piano and horn. They have released four albums available on Bandcamp here.
Music:
Alexandra Valladares
October 9th | 4:00PM | Main Stage
Alexandra Valladares & Viajeros Melodiosos is a vibrant, multilingual musical group based in the Triangle area of North Carolina that performs popular music from around the world in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English.
Music:
Alexandra Valladares & Viajeros Melodiosos (YouTube)
Stephen Smith
October 9th | 4:30 PM | The Grove
Pianist/composer Stephen Smith has performed both in groups and solo in a wide variety of genres including neo-classical, blues, jazz, popular, and folk. He is currently playing piano and organ in the Claptones and also playing solo piano dates. In 2022, Stephen released his second album of original piano solos, Light of the Morning, which is available on CD and all streaming sites. He studied jazz and classical piano, composition, and arranging at Berklee College of Music.
Music:
Sugaree String Society - Oldtime
October 9th | 5:15 PM | Main Stage
Sugaree String Society carries the torch of Pete Seeger’s boundless optimism and Woody Guthrie’s critical and clever tongue, accompanied by mountain banjo and a high lonesome sound in the tradition of bluegrass trailblazers Earl Scruggs and Dr. Ralph Stanley.
With defiant wit and innate musicality, Western Pennsylvanian folksinger Jodi Jones beautifies the bitter truths of our modern age into song as an act of radical love and solidarity.
Alongside her, Brendan Macie wields the five string banjo like an extension of his arm - guided by tradition but never bound by it, bringing a unique sensitivity to old-time repertoire tunes and contemporary protest songs alike.
Music American Dream
Godi Godar
October 9th | 6:00 PM | The Grove
Godi Godar Moteke Molanga of the Bantu Ntomba community grew up in the village of Ikoko Bonginda, at the edge of Lake Tumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Grandson of the chief, he was next in line to lead, but a vivid boyhood vision foretold him leaving his home, traveling to an unknown land, and one day returning to support and protect his people.
When Godar was sixteen, Habitat for Humanity volunteer, Dean DeBoer, showed up in his village. Godi's grandfather insisted they live together and learn each other's languages and cultures. At the end of his three year stay, Dean invited Godar to travel to the US with him. Thus began the first phase of Godar's childhood dream coming to fruition. He has lived in Durham, NC since his arrival in 1988.
23 years later Godar’s mother, Nsaba Koko, pled with her son to find a way to protect the land, waters, and forests surrounding his village. Logging companies were destroying the livelihood of his people, endangering wildlife, and polluting the air. Koko asked him, “How can we protect our homelands?” With that question, Godar's purpose in leaving his tribe became clear.
In response to his mother’s pleas, Godar started Go Conscious Earth (GCEarth) in 2012. For many years, Godar and volunteers have worked tirelessly to protect land rights, wildlife, clean water, and carbon rich rainforests. Their success has not only protected the health of people, animals, and ecosystems, but also proven the success of community-based anti-poverty initiatives to the DRC government.
Godi plays the Congolese balaphone.
Netinho Maranhão
October 9th | 6:45 PM | Main Stage
Netinho Maranhão hails from the Northern Brazilian state of Maranhão, which is just southeast of the Amazon river basin. He grew up traveling across the wild North of Brazil - his father built wooden bridges for the TransAmazon highway. Along the way he learned the songs of Brazil’s last frontier. He will be singing Samba, Reggae and MPB from Maranhão and beyond.
Music:
Boom Unit Brass Band
October 9th | 7:45 p.m. | Main Stage
For 10 years, Boom Unit Brass Band has paraded their powerful sound throughout the Triangle and all across North Carolina. Their 10-piece line-up of Trumpets, Trombones, Saxophones, a Sousaphone, and Drums draws inspiration from traditional New Orleans Second Line Brass Bands as well as modern Brass, Funk, and Hip-Hop. Boom Unit Brass Band plans to head into the studio this summer to record their debut LP. Get up outta your seat and move your feet to the big sound of Boom Unit Brass Band!
Music:
Boom Unit Intro
Dazed
Bourbon Street Parade
Dead Rat Disco
October 9th | 8:45 PM | Main Stage
Dead Rat Disco is a sweat-drenched four-man punk rock machine from the North Carolina Triangle, fusing raw energy with tight musicianship and infectious, passionate songwriting. Barely a year into their existence, they play with the fire of a new band and the precision of musicians who've been in the trenches for decades...because they have. Ex- and current members of Electric Frankenstein, Sex Negative, Shark Quest, Evil Wiener, and Worm Quartet make up the roster, together representing over 100 years of collective punk rock experience. And yes, sometimes there's a keytar. Don't worry - it works.
Music:
Tonight
Saturday October 10th
Color and Light Choir
October 10th | 12:00 PM | The Grove
Based in Hillsborough, NC, CLCC is committed to bringing people of diverse musical and social backgrounds together through music and community service.
Do you sing? Join us! Rehearsals at Eno House on Mondays.
Contact colorandlightcc@gmail.com for more information.
Ballratz Art Rock Collective
October 10th | 12:45 PM | Main Stage
Ballratz art rock collective is a rock band with theatrical elements whose performances often reimagine entertainment media influences from our childhoods.
Music:
The Ballad of Flushman
Allez les Bleus with Sara Zaleta & Johnny Wall
October 10th | 1:30PM | The Grove
Allez les Bleus play traditional French Tunes from various time periods and styles.
The Halfbacks
October 10th | 3:00 p.m. | The Grove
The Halfbacks are husband and wife songwriters Mike June and Jess Klein. With almost twenty albums and decades of songwriting and touring experience between them, the duo brings June's rootsy rock-inflected storytelling and Klein's soulful, deeply expressive songwriting together for an act with high-energy performances, tight harmonies, and a shared love of great songs. The Halfbacks write and perform songs written expressly for the duo, drawing on their distinctly different voices to create something warm, spirited, and uniquely their own. Mike and Jess are West Hillsborough residents.
Music:
THE ICE CREAM SOCIALISTS
October 10th | 3:45 PM | Main Stage
The Ice Cream Socialists are a new quartet performing an eclectic set of music from around the world. Featuring singer Cameron Aiken, accordionist David DiGiuseppe, pianist Alexandra Franco, and bassist Carlos Pino, today’s performance will span 3 continents including tangos from Argentina, French cabaret, and American cowboy songs.
Emmsy
October 10th | 4:30 PM | The Grove
Travesti, trovadora y migrante. Inspiradx por cantautoras hispanas, teatro musical y cabaret. Buscando corazones para guardar mis canciones/
Trans, migrant, and troubadour. Inspired by hispanic singer-songwriters, musical theater and cabaret. Searching for hearts to hold my songs.
Music:
Sample 1
Sample 2
Robot Poeta
Syn3
October 10th | 5:15 PM | Main Stage
The Triangle is fortunate to have so many great bands covering the music audiences want to hear. It almost doesn't matter the tune you want to dance to on a Friday night—you're likely to find a solid live cover. Good tunes, busting it on the floor and your favorite adult beverage—what could be wrong? Well....nothing. And that's exactly where SYn3 comes in...
Like you, we know the value of listening to the deeper parts of a band's catalog—the tunes only true fans know. Now and then, listening to a deep cut set of tunes by just a few bands is just what you need after the week. Sometimes, only those bands and singer/songwriters know your day!
We are a group of life-long, experienced and trained musicians providing an authentic, acoustic UK & US musical experience as possible. In addition to focusing on Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull and Neil Young, we play acoustic music and arrangements popular in the UK that never made it to the US. Radiohead, Irish jigs or a few deep cut Zeppelin tunes anyone?
Sure, we got the notes, but we also focus on the sound quality and feel of our covers—it's central to who we are as a band. Yes, reproducing those critical textures as clearly as possible is vital to any tune and we make things authentic there as well!
Music:
Batala
October 10th | 6:45 p.m. | Main
Batala Durham is an inclusive Brazilian Samba Reggae group dedicated to bringing communities together through music.
Project Mastana
October 10th | 7:45 p.m. | Main Stage
Mastana is: The sultry and evocative voice of Surabhi Shah; the international man of mystery guitarist John Medley; a really funked up person on Bass, Vasu Kilaru, jazzman and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Brown, violin virtuoso Tracy Feldman, and the much in demand beat master, the one and only, David Shore on drums.....and whatever happened to the Nauch girls?
Music:
Son de Carolina - Mexican Son Jarocho
October 10th | 8:45 PM | Main Stage
Son de Carolina is a Durham-based community music collective dedicated to building community through son jarocho, the participatory music, dance, and poetic tradition of Veracruz, Mexico. Rooted in the spirit of the fandango, the group brings together musicians, dancers, families, and community members to celebrate the African, Indigenous, Spanish, and Caribbean influences that shape the tradition. Through performances, workshops, and community gatherings, Son dee Carolina creates joyful spaces for cultural exchange, collective music-making, and connection across North Carolina.
Sunday October 11th
Hillsborough Youth Theatre
October 11th | 1:00 PM |
A comedy play for kids, mixing the story of Snow White with 'reality TV' formats. The Queen is worried about the increasing beauty of her step-daughter, Snow White. She holds a reality TV competition and gets Snow White voted into the forest, but Snow White builds a theme park with seven friends and proves the Queen is running a fraudulent unicorn charity.
Monroe School of Highland Dance
October 11th | 2:00 PM
Monroe School of Highland Dance is a Hillsborough, NC-based Scottish Highland dance school directed by Kendra Monroe and alongside co-teacher, Jessica Higgins. The school trains dancers of all ages in traditional Highland dance that competes and performs across the region, sharing Scottish culture through athletic, expressive, and historically rooted dancing at festivals and community events.
Footnotes Tap Ensemble
October 11th | 3:30 PM | TDB
Footnotes Tap Ensemble is a nonprofit professional tap dance company with a mission to promote, preserve, and perform this unique American art form through ensemble concerts, community performances, and tap workshops. Founded in 2002 by Robin Vail and Mimi Benjamin at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill, Footnotes has been tapping through the Triangle for more than 20 years. Learn more about the company at footnotestapsensemble.org.
Jen & David’s O My Machine
October 11th | 4:45 PM
Jen and David, the duo behind O My Machine, bring a unique
blend of storytelling and emotion to their original music. With soulful vocals leading the way, they navigate between acoustic
and electric guitars, infusing their melodies with subtle sound
effects and occasional drums.
When they're not lost in music, Jen and David find solace in family time and creative pursuits, including visual art. Their passion extends beyond music; together, they run a prosthetic
clinic, where they craft prosthetic body parts for amputees.
Follow @o_my_machine on Instagram to stay tuned to their
musical journey.
Music:
The Boiling Frog Collective
October 11th | 6:00 PM
Experimental video art with live experimental music, based in the Triangle area of NC with a rotating cast of collaborators.
Durham Cinematheque - Silent film with live piano (Alexandra Franco on piano)
October 11th | 7:30 PM
Come see the silent comedy COLLEGE CHUMS (1907) with live piano and THE THIEVING HAND by J. Stuart Blackton (1908) with a recorded soundtrack
Welcome to FlushFest …
- Hillsborough’s largest music festival!
- More than 20 bands from around the world!
- Multiple venues within walking distance!
- Supporting clean water projects globally!
- Rocking since 2018!