Listen Speakeasy

If you like intimate music concerts, you will love Listen Speakeasy. Most of their concerts are held at Morehead Foundry, with the entrance through the bakery into Hush!, a tiny space with one way in, no windows, a diminutive stage and room for 45 people to enjoy a concert. In yesterday's gathering, Riley Baugus, James Leva, and Leo Shannon, played a sold-out concert, delighting the audience with their old-time music. They entertained the audience with banjo, fiddle, and guitar music, mixed with some harmony singing. While almost every seat in the house is a good view, as seen in the above photo, your eyes have to adjust to the effects of black light lighting.

Peg Parham books the acts and manages the ticket sales for the Sunday and Monday Listen Speakeasy concerts. Attendees can purchase food and beverages at one of the restaurants at The Foundry. Yesterday, while most people ate burgers, one man had fried chicken on an open-face pimento cheese omelet.  The options were many. Yesterday, between 45 minute sets, many people stepped into the bakery for coffee and dessert while others stepped outside to converse as the audience was populated with fellow musicians and friends. The event was as intimate as a house party. If you haven't attended one of Peg's Listen Speakeasy events, or haven't obtained a membership to Hush!, you've got two new things to add to your list of things to do in Greensboro.

Comments

[Lowell]

When you say "speakeasy," I do think of small, dark places, but with lots of booze and cigarette smoke and people speaking in hushed tones because the coppers might raid the place any minute. But this sounds great and I would enjoy it a lot. I'm no longer any good but play guitar and keyboards and wrote a song that made it to #1 on the Independent charts in Europe. Now, I'm lucky if I can play with my cat, much less an instrument. If you get old, try to do it a different way. OK?

[William Kendall]

A wonderful shot, Janis!