EMERGING ARTISTS SERIES:
Pony Bradshaw w/ Local Emerging Artist: Chris McGinnis
Presented by The Wyndham Championship
and MusicGreensboro
Live at Flat Iron
Saturday, August 02, 2025
Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm
$25
In her 2008 filmic auto-portrait, Beaches of Agnès, artist and filmmaker Agnès Varda says, “if we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” For Varda, those landscapes were beaches. For singer-songwriter Pony Bradshaw, they’re the hushed hills and deep valleys of North Georgia. And from the first aching thrum of “Ginseng Daddy,” the opening track off his latest record, Thus Spoke the Fool, he’s inviting us back to that beautiful, haunted place, his home place, to visit again.
Similar to his previous two offerings, the tracks on Thus Spoke the Fool feel less like songs you hear, and more like places you go, odes to the land and language of Appalachia, lyrical topographies paying faithful homage to the region where Bradshaw put down roots nearly two decades ago. The songs are lush with mountain laurel and tobacco leaves, taking listeners to mill towns, and American Legions, and Mineral Bluff. They’re flushed with the flood of the Coosa and Hiawassee Rivers, tense with the tenor of a buck dancer’s tapping feet.
Recorded in part in the sanctuary of an old church outside of Athens, Georgia, Thus Spoke the Fool is a taut,10-song collection, and the third and final installment in a trilogy that began with 2021’s critically lauded Calico Jim. What began as a bluegrass record alchemized during recording sessions in Nashville to create a more hybrid, textured sound, heavy on fiddle and pedal steel.
Beyond any strict genre classifications, however, it’s mountain music that bears witness to a maligned and misunderstood region by a songwriter forever contending with the notion of what it means to call a place home.
LOCAL EMERGING ARTIST: Jesse Fox
Jesse Fox is a musician based out of Burlington North Carolina and has been performing and touring with his former band “Love & Valor” since 2012. In late 2022, Jesse made the decision to embark on a solo career. With a catalog of over 500 songs and a decade of shows under his belt, Jesse is excited and ready to share his new music. Jesse’s sound draws from the likes of 70’s singer/songwriters Jim Croce and James Taylor, to current favorites such as Gregory Alan Isakov, Noah Kahan, Medium Build and more.
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