The Rishis / 100 Watt Horse / Ben Asbury / Blake Hornsby

DOORS

8:00 PM

SHOW

8:45 PM

Early 2025 is set to welcome the highly anticipated sophomore release from the Rishis. The Athens, Georgia-based outfit is centered around the songwriting duo of Sofie Lute and Ranjan Avasthi, and has now expanded to a full band with a rotating cast of musicians playing psychedelic folk rock with tinges of world music to add coloring to the mandala.

Lute and Avasthi have been writing songs together for over a decade now, with their debut album, August Moon, being released in 2022 on the Elephant 6 Recording Company label of Cloud Recordings. In addition to the duo, the Rishis regularly feature a variety of artists, including members of Neutral Milk Hotel, the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, and the Primordial Void collective. Other guest musicians on their new self-titled LP include Mac McCaughan (founder of Merge Records), Robert Schneider (producer of the Elephant 6 Recording Company), co-producer Chris Byron, and Colin Willard & Gregg White of Shang-Ri La Studios in Malibu, California. The Rishis’ newest effort, out February 21st on vinyl and digital formats, picks up where August Moon left off, propelling us forward to explore the inner workings of the collective consciousness.

100 WATT HORSE - the evolving songwriting project of George Pettis, originally forming in Atlanta, GA around 2012 and later moving to Olympia, WA, Nashville, TN, and Limerick, Ireland. Initially a solo endeavor that involved rotating Atlanta-area musicians, it later matured into a more collaborative effort, particularly with producer and engineer Graham Tavel on releases like the 2024 EP Okey Donkey.
The band creates a lo-fi, experimental folk-pop sound, exploring themes of friendship, love, loss, and grief with a blend of acoustic and electronic elements, all while maintaining a distinctly heartfelt and soulful quality.

w/ BLAKE HORNSBY and BEN ASBURY