Florence Dore concert at The Stage
Date: 03/21/2024
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Florence Dore will put on a special concert Thursday, March 20, during the final hour of Folk & Beyond. Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina-based independent musical artist whose 2022 release Highways and Rocketships won the Best Americana album at Lonesome Highway Magazine. She will be joined by Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Mark Spencer.
This is a free event, open to all. You can also listen on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it at WTJU’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. But concerts always sound better with you as part of the studio audience. WTJU is located at 2244 Ivy Rd in Charlottesville, right next door to Vivace. There is plenty of parking, both in our lot as well as the Sentara lot next door.
“Each year unearths previously unknown exceptional artists to us all at Lonesome Highway. For this writer, Florence Dore is most certainly one of the discoveries of 2022.” —Declan Cullitin, Lonesome Highway
“A wise and tender collection of rock, folk, and vintage Southern power-pop.” —Brian Howe, INDYWEEK
“reflective and funny and semi-biographical, while still finding room for a little acid.” —Jordan Mainzer, Since I Left You (Steve Earle & Florence Dore Live Show Review)
Florence Dore is a Nashville-born, North Carolina-based independent musical artist whose 2022 release Highways and Rocketships won the Best Americana album at Lonesome Highway Magazine. The road from her first LP Perfect City (Slewfoot 2001) to Highways and Rocketships has been anything but straight—and that’s not even counting the pandemic delays. She has spent a lot of that time between then and now riding around on Steve Earle’s tour bus, catching up with her Dukes-drumming husband Will Rigby. She also wrote a book, put on a conference at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and took a seat on the board at the Bob Dylan Institute. Somewhere along the way she and Will had a kid too. Back in 1994, the Posies covered her song “Christmas” on a 1994 Geffen compilation, Just Say Noel, while Florence was making her way in the music scenes of Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Cleveland. Highways an Rocketships was produced and recorded by none-other than Don Dixon and Mitch Easter (REM, etc.) at Fidelitorium. Florence and her ace touring band—comprised of the dB’s rhythm section, husband Will and Gene Holder, as well as Mark Spencer (Son Volt)—are out and about now.
Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Mark Spencer hails from the great state of Vermont, where he honed his formidable skills among the maples and mountains. He has recorded, toured and performed with a diverse range of artists in addition to Florence Dore, including Son Volt, Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories, Wanda Jackson, The Pretenders, Los Lobos, and dozens more.
