Don’t worry, Missouri’s Pentagram String Band is not what happens when Mumford & Sons discovers the Ouija board.
Led by drifter and busker Johnny Lawhorn, the Kansas City outfit plays a murderous, misanthropic strain of bluegrass that feels conspicuously optimistic when it gets blasted out of the speakers. Ragtime-loving Louisiana busker Matthew Bracken Edens brings his Yes Ma’am project to the bill along with Arizona’s Little Foot and Sarasota’s own country-R&B act Mark Wagner & the Bad Habits.
Tickets to see Pentagram String Band play The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg on Sunday, March 1 are still available for $20–$25…