Join us for a springtime concert at SECCA's lakeside stage! Free for SECCA members.
Saturday, April 30, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Back Lawn
What better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than with live music in the outdoors? SECCA is proud to welcome standout folk rock acts Gold Light (Asheville) and Nightblooms (Greensboro) to the lakeside stage for a special concert. Y'all Supper Club will be on-site serving burgers, and cocktails will be available from The Exquisite Taste. This concert is FREE for members, as a thank-you for your continued support.
Doors & Dinner at 6pm, Music at 7pm
Tickets are $10 in advance, $13 at the door. Tickets are on sale now!
Members, please contact Devon MacKAY at devon.mackay@secca.org to claim your free tickets for this concert.
ABOUT GOLD LIGHT | Listen
Tracking through cinematic tales of heartache, love and loss while bouncing between genres from 50's rock and roll to post-punk to classic country, Gold Light becomes a catchall for Chang's prismatic take on American music.
"There's an obvious throwback vibe on this self-titled record to Velvet Underground or more modernly The Tyde. Joe Chang, Gold Light himself, has a distinct voice, though. The lyrics are rife with simple wisdom, bent clichés, and plenty of baby-you-better-believe-its. The vocals (swathed in hall reverb) with just a Pixies bass line supporting–like Jonathan Richman with a story-time, Springsteen flow–on the song "Gold" say, "Well, darling, don't you know that your heart is made of gold? How come you set the price so low?" Memorable and classic." — Cary Lee Barrett ~ Independent Clauses
ABOUT NIGHTBLOOMS | Listen
One of the hardest parts about having a band is describing what you sound like. It's often easier just to reference other bands people might actually know (Elliott Smith, Weyes Blood, George Harrison, Grizzly Bear, The War on Drugs…) than to come up with overused adjectives and round-about metaphors. I guess I could tell you that Nightblooms sounds a little like Lilac Shadows but filtered through acoustic guitars, pianos, and a lot less volume. That might help, but you also might be like, "I don't know what Lilac Shadows is." I could say we use lots of synthesizers, or that there are some really tight basslines, or that lyrically our songs are anxious as hell but pretty fun musically. But like Orson Welles once said, "I'm the bird — you're the ornithologist." So you should just listen and see what comes to mind. It'll probably be more evocative than I can write here anyway. Whatever the music sounds like to you, I just hope you enjoy it.