Petra's Bar

Lynsea | The Kindest People | Willingdon
2025-08-23 20:00 (America/New_York) | Petra’s, 1919 Commonwealth Avenue, Charlotte, NC, 28205, United States
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $7 Advance | $10 Day Of
• 21+

Lynsea
Lynsea is a Charlotte-based, independent songwriter and pop-artist recognized as the 2024 Best Pop Artist by QC Nerve. In addition to being chosen as a featured artist for Charlotte festivals, such as SHOUT! and Confluence Carolinas.
https://linktr.ee/imlynsea

The Kindest People
Blending modern pop sensibilities with a deep appreciation of 60’s garage rock and the spirit of 90’s alternative, The Kindest People have crafted an extensive catalog of albums and content that showcases their versatility as artists.
https://thekindestpeople.com/

Willingdon
Rock and roll band from Charlotte, NC
https://www.willingdonband.com/

TutuTonight: Sunday Funday Show!!
2025-08-24 17:00
Doors: 5pm | Show: 6pm
Tickets: $8 Advance | $10 Day Of
• 21+
Join us for this one of a kind LIVE variety show, featuring live music, comedy, local celebrity interviews, burlesque, drag performances, and MORE—at Petra’s!
Brought to you by TuTu Tuesday and Makeshift Shows, this is TuTu TONIGHT!

The Bill Hanna Legacy Jazz Session
2025-08-25 19:30, 2025-09-01 19:30, 2025-09-08 19:30, 2025-09-15 19:30, 2025-09-22 19:30
Doors: 7pm | Music: 7:30pm-10pm
Tickets: $7 Advance | $10 Day Of
• 21+ with Valid ID

Bill Hanna was a legend in Charlotte. He was the godfather of Jazz and we’re keeping his legacy alive each and every Monday night. Come join us to see some of Charlotte’s best musicians perform in an intimate setting.
Limited seating is 1st come 1st serve.

Night Class: Unserious Power Point
2025-08-26 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
$10 At the door
• 21+

We’re turning Petra’s into a schoolhouse (but make it sultry) and this isn’t your grandpa’s math lesson. You have five minutes to teach the audience about a topic of your choice, and we are looking to be humored, enlightened….even stirred, if you will.

Hosted by professors Miss Frizzle and Bill Nye (but sluttier)
Attendance taken by Burlesque Headmistress

Submission link: https://forms.gle/PuRMBRq1jGAUeY1w6

$25 cash prize each for winners in three categories, determined by audience vote:

Funniest presentation
Most insightful presentation
Hottest presentation

Timeline

Syllabus due: August 10 at 11:59 pm EST
Selection notifications: August 13
Slides due: August 24 at 11:59 pm EST

Guidelines:

Presentations cannot be longer than 5 minutes.
No more than three presenters per presentation. The names of all presenters must be submitted with this form – you may not add presenters after being selected.
Presentations communicating themes based in racism, homophobia, transphobia, gender discrimination, fatphobia, ableism, and other forms of bigotry are not welcome. The event organizers reserve the right to cut the mic for any presentations communicating discriminatory themes.

Please reach out to the event organizers with any questions you may have:

Alexx Baerwald Simard: alexx.baer.sim@gmail.com
Adrian Parrish: beardrian@gmail.com

Submission link: https://forms.gle/PuRMBRq1jGAUeY1w6

Karaoke with Klaytastic
2025-08-27 19:00, 2025-09-03 19:00, 2025-09-10 19:00, 2025-09-17 19:00, 2025-09-24 19:00
Every Wednesday at Petra’s is the best karaoke party in Charlotte.
With host @klaytastic!

7pm-12am | No Cover | 21+ (No Exceptions)

Dawn Landes w/ Ali Forrest
2025-08-28 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $15 (plus online fees)
• 21+
Dawn Landes
Dawn Landes is a North Carolina-based singer-songwriter whose music you might have heard if you watch The Good Wife, House or Gossip Girl. Along with releasing seven albums and five EPs since 2005, she’s a frequent collaborator with contemporaries such as Sufjan Stevens, Norah Jones and composer Nico Muhly. She has appeared with the Boston Pops, the NYC Ballet and on the TED main stage. Her musical ROW about fellow Kentucky native Tori Murden McClure’s quest to become the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean premiered in 2021 at Williamstown Theatre Festival and is available on Audible. Her latest release is The Liberated Woman’s Songbook, an album of folk songs that leads us through a history of women’s activism from the 1800’s through the high times of Women’s Lib in the 1970’s. The album was produced by her longtime collaborator Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman) and features guests including Emily Frantz (Watchhouse, formerly Mandolin Orange), Kanene Pipkin (The Lone Bellow) Charly Lowry, Rissi Palmer and Lizzy Ross (Violet Bell).
linktr.ee/dawnlandes

Ali Forrest
singer/songwriter
linktr.ee/normalalicat

Me Like Bees The Wonderlands | The Orderlys
2025-08-29 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $15 At the door
• 21+
Me Like Bees
Formed on the heels of the 2000s indie rock scene, Missouri-based indie rock band, Me Like Bees, was created by college dropout, Pete Burton and former gas station clerk, Luke Sheafer in 2009. The pair met while playing high school football together in Kansas; only to lose touch and serendipitously end up at the same college town in southwest Missouri several years later. The duo shared a mutual affinity for the music of the aughts. Bands like The Strokes, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, and Franz Ferdinand, would serve as the catalyst to the danceable, guitar- driven rock that Me Like Bees would become known for, all of which are ever-present on their newly released sophomore full-length album — Disco Two Step.
Notably, the band released their first full-length album, The Ides, via Loveway Records in 2013. In 2014, they won first prize at the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands in Hollywood, CA — beating out 20,000 other artists, and securing a coveted spot on the Vans Warped Tour. With their undeniable trajectory of growth, the group knew the next step was to make more music. They got the chance to work alongside Goldfinger frontman and well- known producer, John Feldmann for the There Will Be Time EP (2016), and they didn’t stop there. In 2018, they partnered with Image Comics and artist Jeremy Haun for the release of their graphic novel-inspired EP, Songs From The Realm.
With a plethora of years in the game and knowing their way around the studio – Me Like Bees is making sure they’ve got your attention.
https://www.melikebees.com/

The Wonderlands
Alternative-pop quintet The Wonderlands began as a vehicle to combine the aesthetics of pop music with elements of American folk, soul, and rock. Now in the process of recording their third album, the band’s writing has evolved to become more collaborative and exploratory. Their newest single “When I Was Younger” addresses the painful paradox of growing up with an anthemic chorus and a driving rock rhythm.
https://www.thewonderlandsband.com/

The Orderlys
pop/rock
https://www.instagram.com/theorderlys/

Time Off
2025-08-30 20:00
TIME OFF is a new dance party experience presented by Vacation Pay, a label and creation brand based out of Charlotte, NC. With a focus on release from the everyday woes and worries of life, our parties are a way for individuals of different backgrounds and cultures to escape from reality as a community.
Doors: 7pm | Party: 8pm
$10 at the door
21+

Hazy Sunday
2025-08-31 16:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-07 16:00 - 21:00, 2025-09-21 16:00 - 21:00
Highly curated.
Charlotte’s best day party is on our back patio every 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday with Probably Will and Ray Krol.
4pm – 9pm
$10 at the door (enter via the alley)
21+ with valid ID

Piano Karaoke & Sing Along with Ryan Stamey
2025-09-02 19:00
Every 1st Tuesday!
Pick a song, grab the Mic, and host Ryan Stamey will accompany you on piano while you take the stage! Come grab a drink, sing your heart out, make requests, or just sit back, relax and enjoy the show!
8pm-11pm
7:30 Signup
$5 At The Door
21+ with valid ID

Lou Hazel with Alexa Rose
2025-09-04 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $15
• 21+
Lou Hazel
Lou Hazel grew up along the Allegheny River, where New York meets Pennsylvania and Northern Appalachia slips into quiet obscurity. In a landscape of cold towns, blue-collar fatigue, and early brushes with hardship, music wasn’t inherited. It was uncovered. There were no venues, no mentors, no real sense of a scene… just whatever you could scrape together with curiosity and a cassette deck.
That absence of direction, guidance, and art shaped Lou’s songs as much as any influence. His music echoes the loneliness of those forgotten towns and the strange resilience it takes to create something where nothing was planted. Blending folk, indie, and an eye for the overlooked, Lou writes like someone who’s learned to pay attention. His songs are spare, vivid, and weathered with warmth.
After years of solo touring and home recording, Lou found grounding in Durham, North Carolina, where a vibrant music scene and chosen community have helped shape his recent work. His latest record, Riot of the Red, captures the urge to get away from it all—the noise, the headlines, the weight of a world gone sideways—and find stillness in the simplest things: a long drive, a bare sky, a familiar chord. Lou Hazel makes music for those who had to teach themselves how to listen.
https://louhazel.com/

Alexa Rose
Rose’s songs feel like oil paint landscapes of her own life in the mountains, often wringing out the beauty in mundanity and exploring timeless topics. Her earnest, well crafted stylings are a multi-layered merger of old country music and traditional folk songs, colored by rock and roll and mountain soul.
https://www.alexarosemusic.com/

True Lilith | Yes Dear | Jackson Fig
2025-09-05 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $7 Adv (plus online fees) | $10 At the door
• 21+

True Lilith
https://linktr.ee/truelilithband

Yes Dear
https://linktr.ee/yesdearband

Jackson Fig
https://linktr.ee/jacksonfig

Saturday Night Karaoke with Nic @ Nite
2025-09-06 19:00
Please join us for a special edition of the best karaoke party in Charlotte.
With host Nic@Nite!

7pm-12am | No Cover | 21+

76TH STREET
2025-09-09 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Music: 8pm
Tickets: $25 (plus online fees)
• 21+
76TH STREET
76th Street is anindie-pop duo consisting of Haley Gold and Spencer Bryant, who met in elementary school in Scottsdale, Arizona. They began playing music together in middle school and eventually formed their band in high school. They are known for their close friendship, which translates into their music, focusing on themes of independence rather than heartbreak. They have released an EP and a single called “You and I”. They also participated in “The Voice” and were finalists in NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest.
https://linktr.ee/76thstreet

Curtis Eller & The American Circus with MOA
2025-09-12 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $10 (plus online fees)
• 21+

Curtis Eller & The American Circus
Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter, dancer, and storyteller. The beloved show business veteran started his career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat, but has since turned to the banjo because that’s where the money is. The iconoclastic troubadour has spent thirty years relentlessly touring the burlesque houses, beer halls, underground theatres, and punk rock dives of North America, Europe, and Australia. His band, Curtis Eller’s American Circus, has developed a devoted international following based on spellbinding stage performances that combine compelling song craft with silent-film-style physical comedy, and explosive rock & roll energy.
curtiseller.com

MOA
Moa is a band from Charlotte, North Carolina, known for their ethereal, dream-like sound. Their soundscape is haunting and vast, often morphing dissonance and darkness with a delicate and quiet resolve. Music journalist Pat Moran writes, “Moa’s music is like diving into a bottomless well only to discover you’re floating untethered in a sky full of stars.” NPR’s Joni Deutsch describes the band as “a lovely, dark and deep tour of musical ambience.”
https://linktr.ee/moa_nc

Sugartank Sundae Fest
2025-09-14 17:00
Doors: 5pm | Show: 6pm
Tickets: $12 adv (plus online fees) | $15 at the door
• 21+
Petra’s is turning 18! Come celebrate with us along with Sugartank Records and some of our favorite performers in the city.
With:
Comino
Noir Noir
Dexter Jordan
Default Modes
YH Artgang
And an afterparty with DJ Black As The Cosmos!

AGH! A Variety Show For A Cause
2025-09-18 19:00
Doors: 7pm | Show: 8pm
$12 At The Door (plus online fees)
• 21+

AGH! A variety show for a cause:
Ali Forrest and Anna Goldstein bring together their favorite musicians, comedians, puppets, weirdos, and general aficionados to raise money for a cause they care about. Join us September 18th for A Good Hang to raise money for a good cause.
Performers:
Pip the puppet: Anna Goldstein // Ali Forrest // More TBA!

Kids Table | Dazy Bea | Camp Calico
2025-09-19 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $7 Adv (Plus online fees) | $10 at the door
• 21+

Kids Table
Indie pop out of Washington DC.
https://linktr.ee/kidstabletheband
Dazy Bea
https://linktr.ee/dazybea
Camp Calico
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/campcalico/lost-souls

Mercury Dimes | Rotoglow | The Gone Ghosts
2025-09-20 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $10 at the door
• 21+

Mercury Dimes
Mercury Dimes aren’t totally sure how to answer the question of genre. Indie, punk, folk… they’ve even been called Art Rock. They’ve been compared to The Pixies, to Alanis Morisette, to the Breeders… what brings their sound together is the sincerity that runs through it all. They love to write and perform music that feels real, lyrics that the audience can understand, and songs that bring you to unexpected places. They aren’t trying to be anybody but themselves- so maybe that difficulty of labelling their music is exactly where they want to be.
https://linktr.ee/mercurydimes

Rotoglow
Rotoglow, the loud and melodic rock ‘n’ roll band formed in Fairfax, Virginia in 2000, continues to make waves in the music scene. The band, composed of Conrado Bokoles, Dave Cannon, Andrew Hellier, and John Kenney, initially garnered attention with their relentless touring schedule from 2000 to 2006. During these years, they headlined clubs along the East Coast, graced the stages of the 2001 Warped Tour, supported OutKast on the “Stankonia” tour, and performed at Baltimore’s WHFStival at RFK Stadium. Their robust live performances earned them opportunities to open for prominent bands such as Everclear, Cracker, Lit, and Sponge.
https://www.instagram.com/rotoglow_dc/

The Gone Ghosts
The Gone Ghosts are an Alt-Country Rock band from Carrboro, NC
https://linktr.ee/TheGoneGhosts

Little Heart Machine | Dog Days | MA
2025-09-25 20:00
Doors: 8pm | Show: 9pm
Tickets: $7 adv (plus online fees) | $10 at the door
• 2!+

Little Heart Machine
https://www.instagram.com/littleheartmachine
Dog Days
https://www.instagram.com/dog.days.band
MA
https://www.instagram.com/fueledbyma
