Owen Grooms Presents: Carrie Morrison & Aoife Clancy & Community Potluck

February 23 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Carrie Morrison is a popular Brevard, NC-based singer/songwriter known for her heartfelt lyrics, warm, expressive vocals, and piano-driven songs blending folk, Celtic, and rock influences. Her music reflects adoration for her Appalachian home as well as love, loss, feminine rage, humor, and resilience. Carrie performs both as a solo artist and as a vocalist/keyboardist in regional rock favorite The Andrew Thelston Band, as well as in several duos. Carrie has been voted one of the top pianists in Mountain Xpress’s Best of WNC contest for three years running. Her most recent albums (2025) are “Balladeer,” produced by Chris Rosser, and “The Crosswalk” (EP), recorded at Abbey Road Studios London. Carrie teaches English at Brevard High School. www.carriemorrisonmusic.com

Aoife Clancy grew up in Co Tipperary Ireland and has been performing for over 35 years. Her father was Bobby Clancy of the group The Clancy Brothers, and had her performing with him at local festivals and folk clubs at an early age. Aoife moved to the States over 30 years ago and toured with the renowned Celtic group Cherish the Ladies out of NYC for several years. While touring with the group she recorded a live Grammy nominated CD with the Boston Pops titled “ The Celtic Album” Aoife’s genre of music is comprised of Celtic, Old Standards, Americana and blues. She accompanies herself on guitar and Irish drum (Bodhran)

Aoife now resides in Etowah NC where she runs her own catering/ music events business.

We will be hosting a potluck dinner this evening. Please bring a non-disposable place setting and a covered dish. If you don’t have food to bring for any reason, we are happy to feed you. We are a pack it in, pack it out public house and ask you take everything you bring in, out with you. Many thanks.

Jennifer Rhea Linville and Owen Grooms play heartwarming original and traditional songs on guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle. Jenn grew up in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and has played music here throughout her life’s journey with her family and friends, including the bands Chrysalis and The Woven. Owen plays with Pretty Little Goat and other regional bands, and teaches traditional music through the Transylvania JAM Program. Together, they offer sweet harmonies that bring ease to your soul and a smile to your face. Their debut self-titled album was released in June 2024 and features Jenn’s evocative songwriting and soulful lead vocals, traditional tunes brought to life by Owen’s unique clawhammer banjo style and lead singing, and Jenn’s beautiful harmonies. The duo released their second album, Under the Hawthorn Tree, in June of 2025 which features more instrumentation and guest artists, while keeping the music heartfelt, honest and sincere. Their upcoming album to be released in 2026 is beautifully simple, in that it features only gourd banjo and vocals, and was recorded on tape.

We will be hosting a potluck dinner this evening.  Please bring a non-disposable place setting and a covered dish.  If you don’t have food to bring for any reason, we are happy to feed you.  We are a pack it in, pack it out public house and ask you take everything you bring in, out with you.  Many thanks.

Cody Hale is a singer/songwriter from Penrose, North Carolina.  He began writing music in 2010 after a career ending injury kept him off the basketball court.  He currently travels and performs with his wife, Jonlyn Linville, who plays fiddle and sings.  Cody has crafted his own sound through years of performing live music.  You will hear popular, classic songs mixed in with clever and capturing original tunes if you attend one of Cody’s shows.

Potluck

We will be hosting a potluck dinner this evening. Please bring a non-disposable place setting and a covered dish. If you don’t have food to bring for any reason, we are happy to feed you. We are a pack it in, pack it out public house and ask you take everything you bring in, out with you. Many thank

Join us for an evening of original music with Dustin Maxwell and host, Owen Grooms. Dustin was born and raised in WNC, and is known for his work with bands like The Shotgun Gypsies and Dust in the Wind. He is currently working on recording more of his original music under his own name with help from musicians like Howie Johnson and Owen Grooms. His songs are soulful, evocative, and rooted in real life experiences right here in the mountains.

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We will also be hosting a community potluck dinner this evening and every Monday from 6–8 pm. Please bring a dish to share and your own non-disposable place setting. If you cannot bring food, for any reason, we are happy to feed you. We look forward to sharing a meal together.

Bruce’s musical roots can be traced back to the 1950’s and include a love of Pop, Rock, Country, Bluegrass and Reggae. He started his musical career at 16, drumming in a cover band and picked up guitar a couple years later. In college Bruce began performing regularly and once opened a show for the legendary B.B. King. After graduating he joined up with his buddy Rick Taylor to form the Atlanta-based Indie Rock band, Right as Rain. This band released two albums on DB Records. Right as Rain performed at the historic CBGB’s in New York City and Austin’s South by Southwest music festival.

Bruce is currently working on an album of original songs to be released soon. These songs blend a serving of rootsy folk with a dash of electric guitar, covered in a twangy Americana sauce, a combination inspired by musical heroes—The Beatles, Bill Monroe, Bob Marley, Flatt and Scruggs, Bruce Cockburn, Dan Fogelberg, and more. He enjoys mixing traditional acoustic classics with originals, old country and quirky obscure tunes that you need to hear. Come see what he’s all about. You’ll leave with a smile on your face.

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We will be hosting a potluck dinner this evening. Please bring a non-disposable place setting and a covered dish. If you don’t have food to bring for any reason, we are happy to feed you. We are a pack it in, pack it out public house and ask you take everything you bring in, out with you. Many thanks.

Mark Queen and Owen Grooms play traditional mountain tunes on guitar and clawhammer banjo at blazing speeds, and a wide array of singing tunes that run the gamut from old time, rock and roll and country. They recorded a self titled album in 2018 and have performed across the area. Mark grew up immersed in mountain music, as he hails from the well known Queen family that has won numerous state and national awards for their achievements and contributions to mountain lore and culture. Owen went to Warren Wilson College where he studied old time music and has been playing and teaching music in Brevard since 2013. Both musicians play with groups all over Western North Carolina and beyond. Come enjoy some hard driving mountain music and stringband interpretations of some of your favorite classic songs.

Photo Credit: Ken Voltz

We will be hosting a potluck dinner this evening. Please bring a non-disposable place setting and a covered dish. If you don’t have food to bring for any reason, we are happy to feed you. We are a pack it in, pack it out public house and ask you take everything you bring in, out with you. Many thanks.

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