Featherpocket Stringband

Featherpocket Stringband are playing Fonta Flora Brewery's Optimist Hall on Saturday, October 17, in Charlotte. It's a bluegrass concert, and they're the only act on the bill, so the whole afternoon is theirs. The music starts at 2 PM, which puts it in that mid-afternoon slot where you can catch the set and still have the rest of your Saturday open.

If you're not familiar with them, the name tells you most of what you need to know: it's a stringband, and the sound is bluegrass. That means acoustic instruments—banjo, fiddle, guitar, maybe a mandolin—playing the kind of music that usually feels right at home in a brewery. It's the sort of thing that works as a backdrop while you're hanging out, but it's just as easy to lean in and listen to if that's what you're in the mood for.

Since they're the sole feature, there's no opening act to work through first. You get the full set from the start, and the afternoon is built around them. It's a straightforward afternoon of bluegrass in the middle of the city, with the brewery around you and the music taking center stage.

It all goes down at Fonta Flora Brewery in Optimist Hall, so you've got the brewery's taps on hand while you listen. The show is on Saturday, October 17, starting at 2 PM.