Press Kit
For Immediate ReleaseFRI MAY 22 2026Wild Pink
w/ Truth Club · The Southern Café & Music Hall · Friday, May 22, 2026
Press Contact
Starr Hill Presents
Phone
434.977.5590
Booking Agent
Direct via venue
§01 / The release
On sale: Wild Pink play Southern 5/22
Tickets Friday 10am. Southern holds 300.
Wild Pink plays The Southern Café & Music Hall on Fri May 22 2026. Support from Truth Club. Doors 7:00p, set 8:00p.
Wild Pink is the New York indie-rock project of John Ross, formed in 2015 and built around a heartland-rock sensibility that critics have compared to Tom Petty by way of Sufjan Stevens.
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 Wild Pink
New York, NY · Est. 2015 · Indie rock
Wild Pink is the New York indie-rock project of John Ross, formed in 2015 and built around a heartland-rock sensibility that critics have compared to Tom Petty by way of Sufjan Stevens. Their 2022 album ILYSM was written and recorded during Ross's cancer treatment and remission. Fifth album Dulling the Horns followed in 2024.
§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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