Goose Pre-Party Featuring Vendors
Spiro Nicolopoulos Blues Apocalypse
Originally from Okinawa, Japan, Spiro lived in Los Angeles Ca before moving to the Asheville area in 2014.
Spiro is a critically acclaimed musician. He and his wife Nicole form the Asheville band “Paper Crowns”. The Paper Crowns are earning their reputation as the genuine article and as a band on the cutting edge of modern roots music. Their musical chemistry is a gumbo of Appalachian folk and bluegrass, Dixieland melodies, delta blues, acid rock, murder ballads, outlaw country and Southern Gospel that they cook up into a sound all their own.
Smooth Goose
Smooth Goose is a Neo-soul Country-Funk band hailing from Asheville, North Carolina. Known for blending soul-wrenching blues grooves with boogie-down dance rhythms, the group delivers high-energy performances that get crowds moving and scratching that itch in hard to reach places.
The bands work includes creative projects such as the popular rock opera Happyland at The Magnetic Theatre in 2023. Smooth Goose is currently in the studio recording but also in the lab reviving a species of Mastadon via cutting edge CRISPR technology.
