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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. 

 

 
Jonathan Byrd

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Five Oaks Clubhouse

8 pm

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

Jonathan Byrd 
Forty Acres is pleased to host Jonathan Byrd, coming with his band to the Five Oaks clubhouse on Saturday, June 16, at 8 p.m.

Jonathan is a North Carolina flatpicker and a Texas songwriter, a Gulf War veteran and a preacher's son, and an award-winning songwriter whose songs you've probably heard, even if you haven't heard Byrd sing them. Covered by Tim O'Brien, Steve James, Red Molly, Jack Lawrence, Melissa Greener and more, Byrd's music will seem familiar to any Americana fan.

His 2008 release, "The Law and the Lonesome" is the fruit of this interstate cross-pollination, what might have happened if Townes Van Zandt had made a record with Doc Watson. Tamara Kater of Canada's folk mag Penguin Eggs called "The Law and the Lonesome" her "album of the decade."

"Cackalack" is the newest Jonathan Byrd release, an homage to his home state. Recorded live in a day while on the road, "Cackalack" hit #1 on Roots Music Reports folk radio chart, #22 on the Americana chart, was the #91 Americana album of 2011, and made John Platt's "Best of 2011," along with strong international airplay and a dozen other "best of" lists.

Most recently, Jonathan won a 2011 SESAC Americana Music Award beside Bob Dylan, Seth Avett, Hayes Carll, Jim Lauderdale, and Colin Brooks from The Band of Heathens.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. We hope to see you and your friends there! 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.

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