The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Fifteen seconds into his upcoming album Good to Be Here (out April 25), Phillip-Michael Scales sings, "Toes pointed toward the road / Hard times picking at my bones," before launching into the anthemic chorus: "I couldn't walk away if I tried / I'm gonna light up the sky." The song sets a determined tone for the album, reflecting Scales' journey as an artist.

In Chicago, Scales honed his craft, playing 308 gigs in 2018 and crediting the city with teaching him how to hustle. This drive carried him to Nashville, where he gained traction on the radio station; Lightning 100, released his debut album Sinner-Songwriter, toured Europe, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and opened national tours for Keb' Mo' and Caravan Palace. Grammy-nominated producer Dan Knobler (Lake Street Dive, Allison Russell, and Bahamas) later joined forces with Scales to produce Good to Be Here.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

For almost ten years, The Cold Stares had toured the world relentlessly as a duo, blowing away audiences across the US and Europe with a fierce, blistering live show that belied their bare bones, guitar-and-drums setup. In 2023 the band began embracing a whole new kind of chemistry and launched into their next chapter, adding a third member and channeling the classic power trio sound they grew up on with their explosive acclaimed album, Voices.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Shakedown Sunday is a monthly series hosted by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and members of Dead to the Core, with special guests, that celebrates the Grateful Dead — not just the band's originals but songs from across the roots and rock worlds they made their own.

Jenny O'Hara has been singing in and around the Syracuse area for 25 years — harmonizing with the Grateful Dead cover band Dark Hollow, performing with the duo Jenny and Joe (Henson), and singing with the BobCat Band and IndeliBlue Project. Her repertoire spans Americana, folk rock, blues, jazz, old country, and originals by local artists.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Abe Partridge is a heralded musician, singer/songwriter, visual artist, storyteller and documentarian based in Mobile, Alabama. Since the release of his debut album "Cotton Fields and Blood for Days" in 2018, Partridge has toured relentlessly, including several tours throughout Europe. He is a regular at several great music festivals such as the 30a Songwriters Fest, and the Laurel Cove Music Fest as well as listening rooms across the country including the legendary Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Eddies Attic in Atlanta, and Duke's in Indianapolis. Recently, he toured extensively with Matthew Sweet, Drivin' N Cryin', and Dar Williams in support of his latest release Love in the Dark. He has performed on several syndicated NPR radio programs including, Mountain Stage and Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour.

Jack Barksdale is a 17 year old folk/Americana singer/songwriter from Texas. Inspired by folk, rock, and blues legends, Jack started performing original music at the age of nine and has already shared the stage with Wynonna Judd, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Junior Brown, John Fullbright, and Hayes Carll.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Saxophonist, singer-songwriter, arranger, and Gulf Coast Records recording artist, Jimmy Carpenter is on a roll! He won the 2021 and 2022 Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist/Horn. And he is now a Grammy-Winning Composer, for a composition he contributed to the New Orleans Nightcrawlers' winning album, Atmosphere. Jimmy has toured internationally with Tinsley Ellis, Jimmy Thackery, Walter Wolfman Washington, Eric Lindell, and Mike Zito and the Wheel. 2019's Soul Doctor, his first album on Gulf Coast Records, was extremely well-received worldwide, and in September 2022 he released his fifth solo album, The Louisiana Record, a collection of his favorite New Orleans songs, also on Gulf Coast. He has been a working musician for over 40 years, spent many years in New Orleans, and now resides in Las Vegas, where he is the Musical Director of one of the hottest blues festivals in the world, The Big Blues Bender.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Dubbed by Rolling Stone as "a genre unto herself," Brooklyn, NY-based Kaki King has proven to be just that. Her career has taken her all over the world, sharing stages with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, contributing music to award-winning films (Sean Penn's "Into The Wild"), and performing at the Kennedy Center, the London Jazz Festival, and the Paris Les Femmes s'en Melent. Her explorations into the guitar and multimedia have led to the creation of groundbreaking work such as The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body, Modern Yesterdays, SEI, and her newest show for audiences of all ages, BUGS. Kaki continues to create, perform, and lend her musical voice to the forefront of contemporary music.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The Henry Girls are a marvelous trio of three sisters from Ireland: Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin. They are great songwriters and have gorgeous super-tight three-part harmonies that come partly from the sisterhood bond that they share as well as their lengthy musical history.

Twenty years of gracing stages together, this trio interweaves their native traditions with bluegrass, jazz and country, and are one of Ireland's top emerging folk acts. With the harp as their main accompaniment, their shimmering harmonies weave a continuous spell throughout their music. They have become one of the most talked about folk/roots acts to come out of Ireland, now captivating audiences on worldwide stages having toured in Germany, America, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Austria, and the UK.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

The 443 is excited to present its favorite dynamic doubleheader — The Simplelife Duo (aka Mike Frisina and Ben Sumner) and Corey Paige.

Songs, stories, and crazy-good guitars ... what more could you ask for?

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Hailing from Buffalo, a town rich with music history, David Michael Miller, nationally touring founder and lead singer of Miller and The Other Sinners, brings his brand of acoustic based southern soul to the road with his side solo project & band, Miller's Garage.

Named after his grandfather's business in Wellsville, NY where he spent much of his growing up years, Miller uses this side project as a story-teller for introducing his songs and the background in their individual lyrics and melodies. He blends his diverse Americana influences pulling from gospel, country blues, soul and folk on acoustic and electric guitar, accompanied by Miller and The Other Sinner's drummer, Isaiah Griffin and keyboardist, Steve Davis, but also with Tommy Formicolla (Teagan and The Tweeds) on pedal/lap steel and Nat Kalnitz (The Brass Machine, JaySharptet ) on upright bass. Garages are a place to fix the broken things that keep us moving.

The 443 Social Club
443 Burnet Ave., Syracuse

Nikki Hill is sweet seduction, sweeter threat, and smoldering energy. An original force in American music, she is tender and tough, flamboyant, witty, and dangerous. To put it plainly, Hill brings daggers back to the stage and studio. Overlapping soulful, sensual, and bold vocal tones with powerful chrome-plated riffs and swagger, her voice finds a home in it – a soul singing, bar rocking, roots revivalist, that writes with frank self-reflection at a dancing tempo.