Virtual Downtown After 5: Floating Action and Tall Tall Trees

The Virtual Downtown After 5 series continues on Friday, August 21 from 5:30-8:30pm with Floating Action and Tall Tall Trees. The online concert is brought to you by presenting sponsor, Prestige Subaru, with support from Visit Asheville, Carolina Hemp Company, Sierra Nevada Mills River and Cambria Hotel Downtown Asheville. Thanks also to our partners Iamavl and The Orange Peel.

Floating Action, a band that has gotten tighter and tighter over the last two years and turned into a soul-grooving group that wouldn’t have been out of its league in Muscle Shoals, Memphis, Philadelphia or Detroit in the 60s and 70s, bring us to a very calm place where they woo us with gorgeous melodies and scrappily fuzzed out tones that radiate a vinyl warmth that somehow immediately instills a feeling of nostalgic happiness.

Tall Tall Trees is the pseudonym of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Savino. Moving to New York in the early aughts with aspirations of being a bassist in the city’s vibrant jazz and experimental music scene, Savino soon switched his focus to banjo and writing songs, resulting in the eponymous 2009 debut, Tall Tall Trees. In the decade since, Savino has toured non-stop, pioneering a world of psychedelic electric banjo music, captivating audiences with his loop-based one man shows.

Watch via the Downtown After 5 Asheville Facebook page or at IamAVL.com.