Welcome to Forty Acres home on the web!

Forty Acres is a celebration of roots music. We are a non-profit tax-exempt organization located in the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) area of North Carolina. We sponsor house concerts and other small venue concerts featuring up and coming artists and artists with a growing following. We also sponsor music/dance events.

You can find directions to our usual venues here.

If you love unique music in intimate settings and would like to be alerted to our upcoming shows and events, please join the Forty Acres e-mail list.

Past shows include Carolina Chocolate Drops , Chris Smither, David Olney, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Jim Lauderdale, John Cowan, Mollie O'Brien & Richard Moore, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, Slaid Cleaves, The Waybacks, Tony Williamson, Tift Merritt and many other fine artists and bands.

A listing of our upcoming concerts and other events is below. For more information, click on the artist name or picture. Tickets for events are available on a first come, first served basis.

We use an email reservation system and take money at the door. Please leave us a message at: tickets@fortyacres.org letting us know what concert you need tickets for and how many you need. 

 

 
The Farewell Drifters

Saturday, Jan. 21, 2011

Five Oaks Clubhouse

8 pm

Tickets: $15 (advance) $20 (door)

Farewell Drifters 
On Saturday, January 21, 8 p.m., Forty Acres at Five Oaks will be welcoming the exciting and energetic Farewell Drifters, guaranteed to get the new year off to a bang!

Rising out of Nashville's thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60's era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of intellectual psychedelic pop with melodic songs that openly explore the brightest and darkest corners of life with raw intensity. The Farewell Drifters' latest album, Echo Boom, has been met with critical praise and finds them growing from young men into thinking men and establishing their considerable place in this world. In case you haven't heard them, check out at www.thefarewelldrifters.com

Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, but we expect this one will sell out, so go ahead and confirm and then check out the amazing lineup of artists confirmed for 2012:

Doors open at 7:30 and the show will start at 8 PM. Five Oaks Clubhouse is located midway between Durham and Chapel Hill.

Send your request to tickets@fortyacres.org, and we will respond with pre-payment instructions, directions, and all else that you need to know.