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2008 Fringe Schedule

Ticket Information: Tickets available beginning June 1, 2008.
To purchase tickets online, click here or call Triad Stage at 336.272.0160.

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	Thursday, 7/10/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro The Steep Canyon Rangers Tickets: $20 The Steep Canyon Rangers have carved out a special spot in the world of bluegrass music, creating a sound that looks forward and backwards at the same time. The Rangers base their sound around a stunning catalogue of original songs, drawing on the sounds of early bluegrass, honky tonk, and blues. In 2006 the International Bluegrass Music Association voted Steep Canyon Rangers the Emerging Artist of the Year. www.steepcanyon.com
	Friday, 7/11/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro The Greencards Tickets: $20 The Greencards are an acoustic music phenomenon that's played around the world, headlined major festivals, won awards, and toured with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. They took Best New Band at the Austin Music Awards in 2004. www.thegreencards.com
	Sunday, 7/13/08, 6 PM Music for a Sunday Evening in the Park, Founder’s Lawn, Guilford College Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin Blues Band with opening act Shiela Klinefelter & Traveling Circus Tickets: FREE Bob Margolin is a Blues guitar player and vocalist, a recording artist who tours worldwide both leading his own band and The Bob Margolin All-Star Blues Jam. He won a W.C. Handy Award in 2005 for Guitar and played guitar in Muddy Waters' Band from 1973-'80. www.bobmargolin.com FREE!
	Monday, 7/14/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers Tickets: $20 Singer, songwriter, and guitar virtuoso Jimmy Thackery has carved an enviable niche for himself in the world of electric blues. Known for his gritty, blue-collar approach and marathon live shows, Thackery was for many years part of the Nighthawks, one of the hardest-working blues bands in North America; since the late '80s, he's been touring and recording under his own name, and has found widespread acceptance on the festival circuit. His hard-edged, tough-as-nails approach to guitar playing and his trio's driving rhythm section holds appeal for fans of both the straight-ahead blues of Muddy Waters and the roots rock of Bruce Springsteen. Like the Nighthawks and Joe Grushecky's Houserockers much of the material Thackery performs can safely be called blues or blues-rock. Hardcore blues like "It's My Own Fault" and popular blues-rock chestnuts like "Red House" from Jimi Hendrix are fair game for Thackery & the Drivers, who include Michael Patrick on bass and Mark Stutso on drums and vocals. www.jimmythackery.com
	Thursday, 7/17/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro The Waybacks Tickets: $20 For The Waybacks, musical evolution is a way of life and a spectator sport. They’re as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, but their experiments are invariably sharp-witted and musically dazzling. Now configured as a four-piece with a full arsenal of acoustic and electric instruments, The Waybacks introduce Loaded, the boldest, rangiest and most exciting album of their career. www.waybacks.com
	Saturday, 7/19/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro Lori McKenna with Lisa Dames opening Tickets: $20 Lori McKenna is an acclaimed singer-songwriter who was thrust into the limelight last year when superstar Faith Hill included three of McKenna’s songs on her Number One album Fireflies, including Hill’s poignant single “Stealing Kisses.” www.lorimckenna.com Lisa Dames is a sassy, sexy wife and mother who is set to make her mark on country music. On Dames’ new album, No One Like Me, she explores her songs from the inside out, investing each one with a sense of urgency ripped from her own life. A life that could have been inconsequential in someone else’s hands.
	Thursday, 7/24/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro the everybodyfields Tickets: $20 the everybodyfields are rapidly gaining a reputation as the front-runners of the newest generation of the alt-country movement. the everybodyfields offer melancholic interpretations of universal human stories set to achingly beautiful melodies. They put these interpretations to life with such instrumentation as lap steel, lead guitar, electric bass, piano and acoustic guitar. www.theeverybodyfields.com
	Friday, 7/25/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue Tickets: $20 Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews merges the forces of virtuosity and exuberance and unleashes them on an unsuspecting public. Playing trombone and trumpet, Andrews is a man to be reckoned with on both. Having played with Lenny Kravitz, U2, and Green Day, his current project is Orleans Avenue, a funk/pop/hip-hop mix. “Troy possesses the rarest combination of talent, technical capability and down home soul. I'm his biggest fan…" – Wynton Marsalis www.tromboneshorty.com
	Saturday, 7/26/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro The Seth Walker Band Tickets: $20 Greensboro native Seth Walker's music combines the driving delivery and infectious guitar style of B.B. King and T-Bone Walker with a gift for songwriting that stamps his music with a sound all his own. Walker himself describes his music as "a different point of blue." www.sethwalker.com
	Thursday, 7/31/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro The Lee Boys Tickets: $20 Exhilarating. Energetic. Exciting. Freeing. Fun. Inspiring. Spirited. Soulful. Thrilling. These are only some of the words fans have used in trying to describe how The Lee Boys make them feel. The Lee Boys sacred steel style is rooted in gospel, but is infused with rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, funk, hip-hop, country, and world music genres in a powerfully jamming mix. www.leeboys.com
	Friday, 8/1/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro Carl Weathersby Tickets: $20 Mixing Southern charm, soulful vocals, and fierce guitar-playing, Carl plays the blues, from down-and-dirty to scintillating Albert King influenced chops. This is one powerful blues performer that will leave you amazed and thoroughly entertained. www.carlweathersby.org
	Saturday, 8/2/2008, 8:30PM Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro Flat River Band Tickets: $20 Put country super group, Alabama on steroids and then drink down the smooth harmonies of the Gatlin Brothers, then inhale the sweet southern music of the Marshall Tucker Band and at that point you will have experienced the Flat River Band. www.flatriverband.com

Directions to Triad Stage

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From Winston-Salem and West:
Take exit 218B (Freeman Mill Road, US 220 North) off of Interstate 40. Follow Freeman Mill all the way into Downtown, which is about 3 miles. Turn Right at Washington Street (it will be the first stoplight you get to when you approach Downtown). You will go under Eugene Street and then Greene Street stoplights. After you go under the Greene Street light, turn Left into the parking deck. Go up to level C and there will be a covered walkway that leads into the back of our building.

From Burlington and East:
From I-40/I-85 take exit 125 (South Elm Street) and turn Right onto Elm-Eugene Street. Follow into Downtown and make a Right onto Washington Street. Take Washington for three blocks to Elm Street and turn Left. Theatre is on the left.

From US 29 South, Reidsville, Danville and North:
Take Lee Street/NC 6 exit and turn Right onto Lee Street. Turn Right onto Elm Street. Go across railroad tracks. Continue across Washington Street. Theatre is on the left.

From US 220, Martinsville:
220 South will become Battleground Avenue. Follow into Downtown (the street name will change to Smith). Turn Right onto Elm Street. The theatre is on the Right before you get to Washington Street.

From Charlotte, High Point, Thomasville and South:
Take I-85 North to exit 122B (Freeman Mill Road) and follow into Downtown. Make a Right onto Washington Street. Take Washington 4 blocks to Elm Street and turn Left. Theatre is on the Left.

From Asheboro:
Take 220 into Downtown and make a right onto Washington Street. Take Washington Street 4 blocks to Elm Street and turn Left. Theatre is on the Left.

From Airport, Bryan Boulevard:
Follow Bryan Boulevard. Into Downtown (name changes to Benjamin Parkway, then Smith Street) and turn Right onto Elm Street. Theatre is on the Right before you get to Washington Street.