This comedy night is special, because it's the night before the N.C. Comedy Arts Fest starts! Come out and get a sneak preview of the Festival!

Billy Sugarfix has started a new project, Billy Sugarfix's Carousel, a five piece chamber pop ensemble. All the tuneful sweetness, but with friends!

Underhill Hall are a durham duo who play minimalist chamber folk.

Local singer-songwriters Brandon Herndon (Twilighter) and John Pardue (Puritan Rodeo) give you a taste of what drives their respective bands. Come out, maybe play a tune of yours!

Instead of Sleeping is an Indie Rock band based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Even if you don't know who Red Threads is, you really do (pssst...it's mailman Dave!).

Jeff Hart has been the guitarist and songwriter for the Americana styled "Brown Mountain Lights", "The Nervous Grooms," the power pop "Frosted Sugar Bombs", "Meltzer-Hart," played with the "Two Dollar Pistols", "Chris Stamey's Big Band" and "Robert Kirkland & The Hanks," and now his own rock combo "Jeff Hart & The Ruins". Sea Cow is a five-piece band from Durham that plays original, rootsy, guitar-based rock with rich vocal harmonies and bile-filled-yet-whimsical lyrics.

Based in the Triangle area of North Carolina, The Magnolia Klezmer Band performs Eastern European Jewish music from Romania, Moldava, Russia and the Ukraine blended with American traditional jazz and swing. Magnolia's unique sound comes from the mingling of musicians with roots in a panorama of musical traditions: Klezmer, Balkan, Jazz, brass band, polka, and classical.

Burke's music is an adventurous mix of psycho-folk, punk, soul, rockabilly, beat poetry, and very strange dance moves - and now a full band! Phil Venable is best known for his high-powered obnoxious rock band The Venables, but tonight makes a rare solo appearance.

The local boogie-woogie master tickles both the ivories and your fancy. Guests and requests may or may not occur.

Rickolus is the multi-talented multi-instumentalist songwriter Richard J. Colado. Drummer Matt Vooris, of SNMNMNM and Rooster for the Masses fame, joins with Anne Aitchisin on marimba and flute.

Open-Mic original music with our host, John Saylor. His dedication in promoting original music is one of the reasons this is the best open-mic event in the Triangle.

Exactly what it says on the tin, and exactly what the doctor ordered: an open jam just for *you*! There will be 2 guitars, 1 bass, and drums, so there's no need to bring anything. If you want you can bring your own guitar, horn, keyboard etc. You will need your own cables. Blackwood and Wormy are in charge of all volume knobs.

Quiet the Voices is a quirky, soulful art-folk-rock duo comprised of Rose Gray and Marcos Lightning Harkness. With their intertwining of various stringed instruments and expressive voices, Rose and Marcos have drawn comparisons to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings for their compelling, hushed yet confident stage presence.

"Whilst Edens strangles words in a kind of a Tom Waits way, Matt Smith lays down a dirty fingernails wall of guitar rock music, a kind of rockabilly, greasy, dirty, gritty. That or a slowed down style, slow so that the words crawl out of Edens' mouth like animals stiff from hibernation taking first steps in spring - here Smith uses the pedal steel to cloak the whole thing in something approaching beauty: they sound like a roadhouse band playing in a coffee house." -David Cowling, Americana UK

Shannon O'Connor plays the single mom country folk blues.

A united force, the P-90's are taking on apathetic music everywhere and encourage fans to get up, get motivated, get mad, get glad, and get dancing - punk has returned! Raging Nipple are, quote, "an all chick punk rock band from Statesville, NC who loves to party!" I tend to believe them.

A Fragile Tomorrow has shared the stage with the likes of the Indigo Girls, The Bangles, Blues Traveler, Catie Curtis, Martin Sexton, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Susan Cowsill, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, Continental Drifters, Danielle Howle, The Cowsills, Railroad Earth, Mark Bryan of Hootie and The Blowfish, and more. Tthe band is now in the studio with Mitch Easter producing. Catch them in a small venue like the Cave while you can.

Tonk plays country music the way God intended it to be played, that is, country music pre-somewhere-around-1978. Heavy on the Ray Price shuffle-walking-bass-line sort of thing, but bleeding into a Waylon / Paycheck harder honkey tonk style. Mac McCaughan is a founding member of the rock band Superchunk, and co-founder of Merge Records along with Laura Ballance. He also heads the band Portastatic, which began as a lo-fi side project and has blossomed into his main musical project. This night, he makes a rare appearance under his own name.