Get Ready for Chase Away the Blues 2026 One Epic Night of Music on Multiple TFAC Stages!
A Variety of Ticket Levels So You Can Customize Your Blues Experience
General Admission: $45 – Enjoy live music on the Veh Main Stage and in the Pavilion. Cash wine/beer bar in the Lobby and the Pavilion open: 6:30 – 9:45
General Admission Plus: $65 – All of the above PLUS a buffet catered by Tryon Resort chefs, and cash wine/beer bar in the Pavilion Blues Lounge. GA ticket holders may upgrade at the event by buying dinner vouchers at the door. Add-on dinner vouchers are limited, so consider purchasing this ticket tier in advance. Dinner service: 6 to 8 – Music: 6 to 9:15
All-Access Pass: $125 – All of the above PLUS, admission to the exclusive 12 Bar Lounge starting at 5:30, featuring a fully-stocked bar with complimentary cocktails, and savory appetizers created by Chef John Wilson, and early access to the Pavilion and fabulous dinner buffet catered Tryon International (Vegetarian and gluten-free options available). Free drinks all night at all TFAC bars. Acoustic music featuring Champagne Charlie from 5:30 – 8:30. Lounge opens to all ticket holders at 7.
Music Everywhere! Your Blues Experience Features Performances by these Exceptional Performers!
Main Auditorium Veh Stage
7 – 7:45 – JUST ADDED TO THE LINEUP!!!
The Casual Zealots with Jim Peterman
8 – 8:45
Jerron Paxton
9 – 10:15
The Angelique Francis Band
The Pavilion Blues Lounge
6 – 7:45
TJ Jeter
8 – 9:15
The Max Hightower Band
The 12 Bar Lounge – Open to All-Access Ticket Holders only from 5:30 to 7. Open to all ticket holders at 7.
5:30 – 8:30
Champagne Charlie
Dinner Is Served!
General Admission PLUS and All-Access Ticket Holders will enjoy this delicious buffet catered by the chefs from Tryon International. General Admission Ticket Holders may purchase $20 dinner vouchers at the door on the night of the event, while supplies last. Or don’t take the chance of missing out! Buy a General Admission PLUS ticket now, and be assured you’ll have a seat at the feast!
Chase Away the Blues Menu
Cracklin Crusted Fried Chicken Thighs
Sausage & Shrimp Po-boys
Red beans & Rice (vegetarian)
Pasta Salad (vegan)
Roasted Root Vegetables (vegetarian)
Cornbread Muffins with Honey Butter
Southwest Salad (gluten free) toppings: fried Corn Tortilla strips, and choice of dressing
Cookies and Gluten Free Brownies
Tea and Lemonade
So, shake off the winter doldrums with some heart thumping, down-home rhythm and blues in this can’t miss annual music event! Chase Away the Blues is a night full of music, food, libations and fun! Doors open at 6 pm. Music starts at 6:30.
These Wines Pair Well
with The Blues!
The Wheelbarrow of Wine Raffle
Is Back!
We’re raffling off at least 15 bottles of fine wine to one lucky winner at Chase Away the Blues! Get your raffle tickets here in advance and at the event. You don’t need to be present to win. Raffles tickets are just $10 each. Buy Wheelbarrow of Wine Raffle Tickets
Featured Artists
Angelique Francis
Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, JUNO Award winning artist Angelique Francis, is a versatile and exceptionally gifted musician. This multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, multi-genre singer song writer and composer has wowed audiences across the globe with her electrifying performances, instrumental abilities and powerful textured vocals. She is known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including Blues, Soul, Folk, Americana, Jazz, Gospel and Rock. Angelique has shared the stage/opened for a large roster of well-known musicians such as Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales, Keb’ Mo’, Jimmy Vivino, Beth Hart, Tom Cochran, Burton Cummings, Sugar Ray, among many others. Her diversity, passion and love of music can be heard in all of her original compositions.
“…Francis has serious star power. She played the audience like a revivalist preacher, telling stories, singing uplifting lyrics… Angelique’s vocals evoking shades of Bessie Smith or Muddy Waters. Also playing both double bass and electric bass as well as blues harmonica…” – Alayne McGregor, Ottawa Jazz Scene
Hold onto your seat (or get up and dance!), and listen to Angelique in action performing “Shake Your Money Maker!”
Learn more about Angelique
Jerron Paxton
Jerron Paxton plays black folk music from nearly all the idioms that entails. From the Jazz of stride piano and banjo from New Orleans to New York to the deepest of the blues played on guitar and harmonica of which he has been a noted figure since his teenage years, from the rural music that reaches the beginnings of black arrival in America played on fiddle, banjo, and bones to ragtime and other turn of the century music that gives the full breadth of black music before World War Two in a package that doesn’t lecture, but invites you to enjoy that music as it was given to him. Mr. Paxton has been known to give his audiences a sense of being transported not to a time, but a state of mind and understanding that allows audiences to enjoy black folk music and have it become a part of them as has been the American experience from the beginning.
You’ll feel this one in your bones! Listen to Jerron Paxton’s BBC performance of “What’s Gonna Become of Me?”
Learn more about Jerron Paxton
But that’s not all! Groove to some of your favorite bands on different stages throughout TFAC! The Max Hightower Band • Champagne Charlie, and other great blues players!
Schedule and lineup subject to change
Many thanks to our Chase Away the Blues Sponsors
