Join the Oxford American magazine for this week’s free Local Live concert at South on Main! The featured artist is The Acousticatz, bringing American roots music together in a blend of traditional and contemporary approaches.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.  Call (501) 244-9660 to ensure your seat at a table for this popular weekly event!

The Acousticatz are steeped in bluegrass but tinged by pop, jazz, and country, and they can best be summed up in just five words: Everything old is new again. This group offers a refreshing, wholesome approach that crosses demographic lines and embraces young and old alike.

The Acousticatz were Arkansas State winners and national semifinalists (one of 10 acts out of more than 100,000) of the Colgate Country Showdown, the biggest country music competition in the world. Performing a blend of original and traditional favorites, the group has enjoyed extensive touring throughout Arkansas and the U.S., as well as maintaining a brisk schedule for the Arkansas Arts Council Arts On Tour program. 
The Acousticatz are also a featured group with the Mid-America Arts Alliance, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The group has three CDs to their credit and are working on their fourth recording project with some exciting new original material.

Pete Brown heads up the stage performances for The Acousticatz with driving fiddle, mandolin, and baritone vocals. Brown has been performing for three decades for bluegrass and country audiences, and he frequently gets asked to judge state and national fiddle championships.

Buddy Case is a gifted singer/songwriter and is considered a top fingerstyle guitar player. Raised in California, Case’s family moved to Little Rock when he was fourteen, and he then began playing lead guitar in a forty-piece church orchestra. During his career, he has recorded a number of solo and collaborative albums.

Patti LaFleur, a classically trained pianist since the age of four, picked up the banjo at nine and bought a bass at the age of twelve. Her driving style is the glue that holds The Acousticatz together. LaFleur sings tenor and lead.