Press Kit
For Immediate ReleaseFRI OCT 02 2026The California Honeydrops
w/ Jontavious Willis · The Jefferson Theater · Friday, October 2, 2026
Press Contact
Starr Hill Presents
Phone
434.245.4980
Booking Agent
Direct via venue
§01 / The release
On sale: The California Honeydrops play Jefferson 10/2
Sweet Like That Tour 2026 stops in Charlottesville 10/2. Tickets Friday 10am.
The California Honeydrops plays The Jefferson Theater on Fri Oct 2 2026. Support from Jontavious Willis. Part of the Sweet Like That Tour 2026. Doors 7:00p, set 8:00p.
The California Honeydrops formed in 2007 when frontman Lech Wierzynski and drummer Ben Malament met busking in Oakland's 19th Street BART station.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am ET. The Jefferson Theater holds 750. Set the calendar reminder, or pull a presale code at the link below if you are on the room list.
§02 / Adjacent tour dates · Jefferson
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§04 / About The California Honeydrops
Oakland, CA · Est. 2007 · Blues
The California Honeydrops formed in 2007 when frontman Lech Wierzynski and drummer Ben Malament met busking in Oakland's 19th Street BART station. The band has built two decades of grassroots touring around a New Orleans-style soul-blues sound, releasing seven full-lengths independently.
§05 / About The Jefferson Theater
Charlottesville, VA · Capacity 750 · Est. 1912
Built in 1912 as a vaudeville house on Main Street, the Jefferson sat dark for the better part of two decades before Coran Capshaw and Starr Hill Presents bought the building, gutted it, and reopened it as a 750-cap club in 2009. The pit floor pulls 600 standing; the balcony pushes another 150 with sightlines that hold up from every seat. Danny Shea has booked the room since the reopening and runs it eclectic on purpose. Indie-folk, hardcore, country, comedy, ABBA tribute. Different demo every Friday.
Production is house-PA L-Acoustics K2; backline is supplied by the artist for ticketed dates and by the room for the resident series. Load-in is Main Street, ground level, no stairs. Settlement runs same night; advances run two weeks out. The Jefferson is the only Charlottesville room that books national touring acts at the 750 mark. Everything below feeds the Southern; everything above pushes to Ting in summer.
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