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For Immediate ReleaseSAT MAY 09 2026Twain
The Southern Café & Music Hall · Saturday, May 9, 2026
Press Contact
Starr Hill Presents
Phone
434.977.5590
Booking Agent
Direct via venue
§01 / The release
On sale: Twain play Southern 5/9
Tickets Friday 10am. Southern holds 300.
Twain plays The Southern Café & Music Hall on Sat May 9 2026. Doors 7:00p, set 8:00p.
Twain is the songwriting project of Mat Davidson, a Franklin County, Virginia-raised singer who has played in The Low Anthem, Spirit Family Reunion, and Big Thief's touring band.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am ET. The Southern Café & Music Hall holds 300. Set the calendar reminder, or pull a presale code at the link below if you are on the room list.
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§04 / About Twain
Franklin County, VA · Est. 2007 · Americana
Twain is the songwriting project of Mat Davidson, a Franklin County, Virginia-raised singer who has played in The Low Anthem, Spirit Family Reunion, and Big Thief's touring band. He has released five full-lengths under the Twain name on BB*ISLAND, working a lo-fi indie-folk register that critics have compared to Bill Callahan and Jolie Holland.
§05 / About The Southern Café & Music Hall
Charlottesville, VA · Capacity 300 · Est. 2007
The Southern is the 300-cap room two blocks off the Mall and the only listening room in Charlottesville that runs a full kitchen. Opened in 2007 as the sister venue to the Jefferson, it books the indie, americana, and singer-songwriter end of the calendar. Tables up front for the seated shows, GA standing for the louder bills. The Southern is where artists play the night after the Jefferson when they want a smaller room for the deluxe-edition tour, and where rising acts play the year before they graduate to 750.
Production is in-house D&B Y-series; backline house. Load-in is South 1st Street, ground level. The room shares a booker with the Jefferson and Ting, which means the same name on a contract works the entire calendar from 300 to 3,500. Settlement runs same night. Advance window is two weeks. The Southern punches above weight on talent quality; Pitchfork-favorite acts route through here on every cycle.
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