Join the City of Salisbury for another year of Friday Night Live. This year, there will be a show at the Pohanka Riverwalk Amphitheater on the first Friday of the month and a show at a Downtown Salisbury restaurant on the last Friday of the month. Shows are free to attend. For the outdoor shows, bring your own chair and enjoy food from food trucks on-site. For the shows at restaurants, a portion of proceeds from sales during the show will go back to the Maryland Folk Festival. Thank you to our sponsors below -- click on each radio station to visit each station's website.
FUNK ROCK/JAM BAND
AT THE POHANKA RIVERWALK AMPHITHEATER, 6:30-9 p.m.
Uncle Kunkel’s One Gram Band is a Baltimore-based music group that originated at Salisbury University in 2019. Playing an original catalog of high energy funk-rock music, the band delivers a show packed with danceable grooves, eclectic lyrics, memorable covers and occasional crowd participation. Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Food Vendors: Get Baked, Playa Bowls
RETRO ROCK & ROLL
AT THE POHANKA RIVERWALK AMPHITHEATER, 6:30-9 p.m.
Based out of Charlotte, N.C., songwriter/keyboardist/producer Joe May, known for his work with Pluto Gang, has released his debut solo album and has built a high-energy live show featuring established local musicians. May has launched headfirst into this new act, with tens of thousands of streams and packed rooms arriving just as quickly as the project was announced. Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Food Vendors: White and Associate Treats LLC, The Tiki Hut Shaved Ice
BLUES
At ROADIE JOE'S, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Chris English offers a combination of deep traditional blues and solid original material. Delta blues is his forte, singing, playing guitar and harp, stamping out the time on an old wooden Coca-Cola crate. He uses vintage guitars from the '20s and '30s to replicate the sound and feeling of the blues he has studied and loves. Chris performs solo, as a duo and with a full band. Website | Facebook | YouTube (Photo by Alyssa Maloof)
INDIE ROCK/FOLK 'N' ROLL
AT THE POHANKA RIVERWALK AMPHITHEATER, 6:30-9 p.m.
Stephen Amoruso (bass/vocals), Jamaal Farrow (drums), and Kristian Lietzan (guitarist/singer/songwriter) configure the emotional folk-and-roll band of Virginia Man. With poetic lyrics bellowing over the sounds of middle Appalachia, these gentlemen champion the sound of their homeland: a strange suspension between the cardinal directions, musical genres, and the changing of seasons. Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube (Photo by Gina DiMaio)
AT MARKET STREET INN, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
OUTLAW COUNTRY/SOUTHERN ROCK
AT THE POHANKA RIVERWALK AMPHITHEATER, 6:30-9 p.m.
You could call Cody Tyler & Gypsy Convoy “red dirt country,” but the rocky soil in coal country and the rust belt, where his family has been rooted for centuries, is a few shades darker. The songs on the band's award-winning debut album, "Stare Your Demons Down," are the product of Cody's musings while hunting deep in the Pennsylvania wilderness. At 29 years old, his musical journey has just begun, but his yearning to travel the open road with his songs written from his tree stand have already taken him across the United States as a solo artist. Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube (Photo by Samantha Kahres-Youse)
Food Vendors: Get Baked, The Tiki Hut Shaved Ice
