Dopapod access a heightened level of cosmic harmony in their music. The quartet—Eli Winderman [keys, vocals], Rob Compa [guitar, vocals], Chuck Jones [bass], and Neal “Fro” Evans [drums]—present albums as experiences meant to be shared out of your speakers and on stage. After generating millions of streams, packing shows coast-to-coast, and earning acclaim from Rolling Stone, Guitar World, Glide Magazine, and more, the group architect an immersive and expansive vision on their self-titled seventh full-length offering, Dopapod. The group’s hypnotic hybrid of funk, rock, jazz, bluegrass, and electronica bloomed brilliantly on 2009’s Radar, and it continued to blossom on the likes of Never Odd Or Even [2014] and Megagem [2017]. Along the way, fan favorites such as “Present Ghosts” reeled in 2.4 million Spotify streams and counting. 2019’s Emit Time arrived to acclaim from Guitar World, Relix, Glide, Jambase, and more. Simultaneously, they sold out headline gigs and graced the bills of Electric Forest, Summer Camp, High Sierra, and Bonaroo where Rolling Stone named them among the festival’s “best-kept secrets.” After a marathon near-decade run, they enjoyed an almost year-long hiatus to realign and reenergize before reuniting with a new fire during 2019 and partaking in something of a “soft return.”  After a brief hiatus to regroup and recharge their creative efforts, Dopapod assembled what would become their next album, the self-titled Dopapod, and looked at the loose threads of their catalog to conceptually tie their journey together. They chose to self-title their seventh offering as a totem to the fact they’ve realized their full potential in terms of music and vision. Tackling time travel, balance and symmetry, binary pairs, and more, Dopapod’s palindromic existence continues to conjure alchemy nearly fifteen years into their journey.

Formed in Asheville in 2022, The Family Tree has been growing inside Datrian Johnson for a lifetime. Born into music, Johnson was singing in church from his earliest days and by the time he was 12, he found himself featured on BET’s legendary series Bobby Jones Gospel. One of the most in demand vocalists in North Carolina and beyond, the past few years brought Johnson on stage singing lead for North Mississippi Allstars, The Word, and now Funk You. He’s been writing and recording at length with Luther Dickinson and John Medeski, who he also collaborates with on Saint Disruption which brought him together with Warren Haynes for a remake of “Imagine,” and he’s sat in and stole the show with heavyweights like Steve Kimock, Oteil Burbridge, Vernon Reid, Empire Strikes Brass and Brian Jackson. Johnson is also the full time lead singer for Asheville’s psychedelic soul band The Fritz, and helps front the hip-hop/R&B band Free Radio. All along this is the music he’s been cultivating and waiting to share. Featuring some of Asheville’s top players, including Jake Wolf on bass, Duane Simpson on guitar, Ted Marks on drums, and Terri Ludman on keys, Datrian Johnson & The Family Tree is the music Johnson has always longed to create. It’s the roots of his ancestors, the sound of his struggle, the power of his joy. This is the music that has healed his soul and it will do the same for you. Welcome to Datrian Johnson & The Family Tree.