Press Kit
For Immediate ReleaseMON JUN 22 2026MJ Lenderman
The Southern Café & Music Hall · Monday, June 22, 2026
Press Contact
Starr Hill Presents
Phone
434.977.5590
Booking Agent
Direct via venue
§01 / The release
On sale: MJ Lenderman play Southern 6/22
Tickets Friday 10am. Southern holds 300.
MJ Lenderman plays The Southern Café & Music Hall on Mon Jun 22 2026. Doors 7:00p, set 8:00p.
Jake "MJ" Lenderman is an Asheville, North Carolina songwriter and guitarist who plays in Wednesday alongside his solo work.
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.
The most quietly important guitar record of the year so far.
— Pitchfork
§02 / Adjacent tour dates · Southern
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§03 / What the press is saying
A songwriter who sounds older than his catalog, in the way that matters.
— The Ringer
§04 / About MJ Lenderman
Asheville, NC · Est. 2019 · Indie rock
Jake "MJ" Lenderman is an Asheville, North Carolina songwriter and guitarist who plays in Wednesday alongside his solo work. His 2024 album Manning Fireworks broke him into the indie mainstream, landing on virtually every year-end list and sustaining a sold-out 2025 headline tour. He records and tours with The Wind, his backing band.
§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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