Kashus Culpepper with Ramona & The Holy Smokes

Ramona and the Holy Smokes (6:30pm)

Kashus Culpepper (8:00pm)

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Friday Cheers Event Details:

• Doors open at 6 PM.
• $10 advance tickets / $15 door
• Children 12 & under are FREE
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Alabama-born country crooner Kashus Culpepper encompasses the sound of the South. A student and reverent purveyor of Southern music – country, soul, blues, folk, and rock – Culpepper’s husky, sandpaper growl bellows like a freight train over self-penned stories that are as raw and real as they are haunting. Finding his voice in church as young as five years old, it wasn’t until 2020’s global pandemic that Culpepper went from listener to performer, picking up a guitar and learning cover songs to play at barrack bonfires in Rota, Spain during his deployment with the Navy. Covers soon became originals, and once he landed home on U.S. shores, Kash played dive bars up and down the Mississippi Gulf Coast, making a name for himself with the fresh-yet-reminiscent sound that oozes from his very being.

• If you like Ray Lamontagne, Marcus King, Chris Stapleton you’ll like Kashus Culpepper.

Ramona and the Holy Smokes is a Honky Tonk band from Charlottesville Virginia, whose original music recalls classic country from the 1950s and 60s. The Holy Smokes are fronted by Ramona Martinez, a prolific singer-songwriter whose sincere and heartfelt music has been described as "incredibly relatable" and "earnest." She also pulls from her Mexican-American roots to perform and compose traditional Mariachi music in a Country Western style.

• If you like Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Emily Nenni you’ll like Ramona & the Holy Smokes.