Welcome to Matildas Music at The SPOTLIGHT

Missing Matildas Music Under the Pines? Don’t let winter weather give you the blues. Step inside the new Spotlight Stage for a night filled with live music, food, and all the Matildas magic you love. We’ll have the lights glowing, mouthwatering eats from Never Enough Thyme, and tables & chairs set up. Swing by the cash bar for a signature cocktail, mocktail, wine or beer — then sit back and enjoy the show. Matildas Music at The SPOTLIGHT is the same great music and casual vibe as Matildas Under the Pines, but indoors with no need to bring your own chair, table, décor, food or drinks. Just bring yourself (and maybe friend or two), and we’ll take care of the rest.

TICKET INCLUDES

Music, Light Eats, Cash Bar, Tables & Chairs, and Parking

SHOW DATES

January 31 Americana Roots & BBQ Eats

February 13 Jazz Club & Italian Eats

March 7 Nashville Circle & Southern Eats

SCHEDULE

7pm Doors Open (Table seating is shared, and on a first come first serve basis)

Cash Bar Opens (Signature cocktail, mocktail, wine, and beer)

Food (7-8pm Buffet provided by Never Enough Thyme)

7:30-9:15pm Music

PARKING

Parking for the Spotlight Stage is located by the Food Court Entrance adjacent to JCPenney. Click this link for google map directions. Look for The Spotlight a-frame sign in front of the entrance. Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7oNGA2NevUkPt2oA9

IMPORTANT / READ BEFORE PARKING

North Point Mall closes at 8pm so ensure your vehicle is parked in the designated surface lot (reference directions above). ALL other mall doors will be closed when you exit the show. Please double check that you are in the correct parking lot so your departure for the evening is a simple walk to your car and not around the outside of the mall to your car. Look for The Spotlight a-frame sign in front of the Food Court Entrance adjacent to JCPenney.

RESTROOMS

Public restrooms are easily accessible in the Food Court.

Listening Room Shows

Singer Songwriters
January 31, 7-915 pm

Claire Campbell

Betsy Franck

Jesse Williams

Claire Campbell is a founding member of the longtime folk-family-band, Hope For Agoldensummer. She has been recording & touring for thirty years. In addition to live performance, Claire works as a session musician, vocal and songwriting coach, producer, and a hired gun for many sonic luminaries (like Patterson Hood and Jim White!). In addition to live performance, Claire is a composer for film, podcasts, and other media. Recently her songs have appeared in Fish Story and American Prankster. She was the principal composer for the serial podcasts: Happy Face, Disorganized Crime, and Racket. If you've ever heard a strange high pitched wail behind someone narrating a gruesome crime, it was probably Claire playing the singing saw!

Betsy Franck is a soulful Americana blues singer, songwriter. This Virginia native has spent 25 years touring and trying to figure out the art of making music, making community, making a family, and making all of that work. Franck has shared the stage with and opened for a broad list of heavy hitters from John Popper, and Bobby Keys, to Ray Wylie Hubbard, Lucinda Williams, and Randall Bramblett. Betsy is featured on (3) of Randall's albums. She holds songwriting workshops and throws house concerts to raise awareness for specific community needs. She currently plays solo/duo and full band shows featuring her original music at festivals, private parties, and intimate venues across the country as well as performing as one of the lead singers in the rock band, Bloodkin. Her latest release features (4) singles, and a music video filmed during the recording process. She is currently compiling a double album featuring original songs that span various genres as well as an album with songs she has co-written with a multitude of various artists over the last decade.

Whether you catch a full band show, or one of Betsy's lyrically captivating solo sets, you will be both moved and inspired.

Jesse Williams,Singer/songwriter/guitarist, is a mountain mama with roots grounded in Blues & Soul. Hailing from North Georgia with the deep belief that it’s best savored when simmered.  

2024 winner of the Eddie's Attic 55th Bi-Annual Songwriter Shootout

Her melody medicine is an invitation of sultry vocals and earthy lyrics that explore Life's many winding paths. These serenades are supported with guitar grooves and rhythms that play within the feeling of the Music. Honoring and offering the raw essence of Spirit as it moves listeners within.

The Jazz Legacy Project (Billie Holiday)
February 13, 7-915 pm

The Jazz Legacy Project presents Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child, featuring Maria Howell.

Billie Holiday's unique vocal approach and advanced sense of rhythm made her one of the most important and influential vocalists in American history. Her relentless fight to be treated as an equal - as a musician, a female, and an African-American - made her one of the most important American figures in the 20th century.

Join us as we detail how she developed her unique vocal style and how she blazed a trail for women and African-Americans that would pave the way for future generations.

This show features a multimedia experience of live music, narration, images, and video footage.