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. Beer and wine available for purchase in the Lobby.
General Admission Plus: $65 – Includes a buffet catered by chefs from Tryon Resort and a cash wine/beer bar in the Pavilion Blues Lounge. Groove to live music on the Veh Main Stage and The Pavilion. All-Access Pass: $125 – Grants entry to our exclusive 12-Bar Lounge and private musical entertainment. Your pass includes a lanyard with your personalized badge that allows you to enter the private gathering.
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.
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 • Thaddeus Tinsley • Champagne Charlie
Schedule and lineup subject to change
Many thanks to our Chase Away the Blues Sponsors
