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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.

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 Tift Merritt, Stacey Earle, John Cowan, Chris Smither,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 Waybacks

Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008

SOLD OUT

The Trails Clubhouse, 7pm

Tickets - $20.00

They draw freely from the old school and the old world, but The Waybacks are no throwback. They've been erroneously pigeonholed as a bluegrass band and celebrated as purveyors of "acoustic mayhem." They are as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, and for nearly a decade, their experiments have always proven sharp-witted and musically dazzling. They're living proof that in music anyway, evolution and intelligent design are entirely compatible.

The folk and roots underpinnings that have long been a Waybacks hallmark are still there, but after years of playing a huge range of venues and festivals, touring with Grateful Dead founder Bob Weir, and reconfiguring themselves around the hot guitar of James Nash and the fiddle virtuosity of Warren Hood, The Waybacks are enjoying a refreshed repertoire - one that's touched by Memphis soul, honky-tonk, Parisian swing, classical music, vintage blue pop and much more besides. Nash and Hood have stepped forward as songwriters, allowing The Waybacks to assemble their first project of entirely original music. They're finding a new collective voice, right before our ears.

Doors willl open at 6:30 and the show will start very close to the stated time of 7 PM.

You may wish to bring a cooler with your favorite beverage and lots of cash to load up on great CDs.

Upcoming Shows:
  • Caroline Herring, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, Trails Clubhouse, 8pm, $15
  • David Olney, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, Trails Clubhouse, 8pm, $15