Savannah Stopover Releases Full Festival Schedule; Confirms Official List of Venues

Staff Report From Savannah CEO

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

Savannah Stopover Music Festival today released the full schedule of 87 performances for the festival’s 7th anniversary to take place in Savannah’s historic district Thursday, March 9th through Saturday, March 11th, 2017. The schedule can be viewed here and festival goers can create their own personal schedules which can be shared with friends, viewed on their mobile devices and shared on social media via Sched. (link: savannahstopover.com/schedule). The schedule can be viewed in 4 different layouts: by time, by date, by venue or as a full grid option (savannahstopover2017.sched.org/print) The festival Mobile App for Android and iOS will be released next week.

Concerts and Events will take place across 13 downtown venues showcasing more than 80 bands spanning the 3 days. Confirmed venues are:

Club One

Congress Street Social Club** (Inside and Outside Stages)

El Rocko Lounge

Emmaus House Soup Kitchen* (Secret Show)

The Yard @ The Grey*

The Jinx

The Owens Thomas House Garden* (Secret Show)

Trinity United Methodist Church*

Savannah Stopover Artist Lounge @ 21 East Broughton (Credentials Required)

Savannah Stopover Ticketing and HQ @ 38 Barnard Street

Ships of The Sea North Garden*

Sulfur Studios (Band Poster Pre-Exhibition- VIP)

Wild Wings @ City Market  (Second Floor Music Loft)

* all ages
** all ages until 9pm

Ships Of The Sea’s North Garden, Trinity United Methodist Church, The Yard @ The Grey and all Secret Show locations are all ages, as are shows outside at Congress Street Social Club. All other venues are 21+.

Sulfur Studios will host a special VIP Pre-reception for the Band Poster Competition on Wednesday night, March 8th from 6pm-8pm. The Event is open to Stopover VIP’s, participating artists and event sponsors. The top posters will be displayed at Ships Of The Sea’s North Garden at the festival’s Opening Night Event on March 9th when winners will be announced. Artist’s can submit here, deadline is February 27th.

In addition to the previously announced Kishi Bashi headlining performance Thursday night’s Opening Night Event at Ships Of The Sea, a few other notable schedule announcements include:

Ruby Amanfu and Julien Baker will headline Trinity United Church on 3/10 and 3/11, respectively

Lee Fields & The Expressions will headline a soul infused night of music at Ships Of The Sea on Friday, March 10th, along with Ambrose, Lawrence and Stopover alum Alanna Royale.

Jeff The Brotherhood will headline The Jinx on Thursday night, 3/9 along with Nashville’s Daddy Issues and Chain Of Flowers from Cardiff Wales.

Rising Nashville country star Kelsey Waldon will play Stopover In The Yard @The Grey on Saturday afternoon, 3/11.

Caveman and Lewis Del Mar will co-headline Saturday night’s Ships Of The Sea closing night concert, along with SXSW spotlight artist Yoke Lore and Stopover fan favorite Belle Game.

Secret Shows will take place this year at various unique and iconic locations in Savannah, including Emmaus House Soup Kitchen on Reynolds Square, The Owens-Thomas House Garden, off Oglethorpe Square and one TBA location.

The festival also confirmed four additional bands to the lineup:

Savannah’s own Cusses have been added to the Friday, 3/10 lineup.

Curtis Harding will headline Wild Wing City Market on Friday 3/10 ( replacing Muddy Magnolias who had to cancel).

Third Man Records newest signee, Lillie Mae, joins the lineup at Trinity Church on Friday, 3/10.

Taze Daze, Savannah-based Hunter Jayne’s (Triathalon, Wet Socks) side project makes their Stopover debut on Thursday, 3/9 at El Rocko Lounge.