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For Immediate ReleaseSUN JUN 14 2026Fust
The Southern Café & Music Hall · Sunday, June 14, 2026
Press Contact
Starr Hill Presents
Phone
434.977.5590
Booking Agent
Direct via venue
§01 / The release
On sale: Fust play Southern 6/14
Tickets Friday 10am. Southern holds 300.
Fust plays The Southern Café & Music Hall on Sun Jun 14 2026. Doors 7:00p, set 8:00p.
Fust is a Durham, North Carolina alt-country band formed in 2018 around the songwriting of Aaron Dowdy, a literature PhD candidate at Duke.
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 Fust
Durham, NC · Est. 2018 · Alt-country
Fust is a Durham, North Carolina alt-country band formed in 2018 around the songwriting of Aaron Dowdy, a literature PhD candidate at Duke. The lineup includes members of Sluice, Weirs, and Mipso. Their 2025 album Big Ugly landed at No. 9 on Time's Best Albums of 2025 and pulled NPR and New York Times year-end placements.
§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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