We are a ROOTS ORIENTED music venue located in a 1930s farm house in SYLVA, a small mountain town in western North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains. We are a HomeGrown Music affiliate venue. The population here is as diverse as it is Bohemian. About five thousand live here (give or take a few) and we are right smack dab in the middle of the Natahala National Forest in the center of the southeastern United States. Atlanta is just a 2 1/2 hour drive south of us, Asheville is just 45 minutes to our east, Knoxville, TN and Winston-Salem, NC are both about 2 hours, and Cherokee, the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and the Blue Ridge Parkway are just 20 minutes fom our front door. Here in the mountains, we live and play true to the roots of Appalacian culture. Our small family friendly (all ages) music venue hosts a variety of talents from all over the United States.
ROOTS ORIENTED MUSIC FROM THE HEART & SOUL
We feature a diverse assortment of music at our venue including...
TRADITIONAL ROOTS / OLD-TIME / AMERICANA
BLUEGRASS of all variations (Traditional, Newgrass, Jamgrass...)
UPBEAT FOLK (Singer/Songwriter, Duos, Trios, Quartets, etc...)
BLUES of most variations (Traditional, Classic, Modern, etc...)
JAZZ (Especially Acid Jazz, Funk Jazz, Soul Jazz) FUNK/FUSION, JAM (acoustic oriented gets our attention!) ROOTS (World-Beat, Celtic, Afro-Cuban, Reggae, Zydeco/Cajun...) but all from the HEART & SOUL.
Our tea house and bistro is a SMALL, comfortable and intimate music venue. We are in an historic 1930s Main Street home, a small farm house with an Oak barn-wood fence (90% recycled old barn-wood) surrounding an open-air music garden. Our comfortable capacity inside is 60 and our outside music garden holds 150+. Combined we can support over 200 guests. Our outdoor stage is covered, but only available weather permitting from around the end of April to the beginning of October. We have music inside in our living room in the event of bad weather and during the cooler months. Many incredible, intimate shows have been performed in our living room. Currently we host live music at Soul Infusion on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings with an occasional touring show featured on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings. See out website for more details.