Performances for July 3, 2026

Meisha Herron Is a seasoned musician (Guitar, bass, vocals) from Chicago. She started performing in jazz, soul and blues bands in Chicago in her teens and opened up for Buddy Guy as a solo acoustic artist at his South loop nightclub, “Legends” where he does a residency every January. Upon visiting the Shenandoah Valley eight years ago, she fell in love with the scene and found the music scene inviting and vibrant, so decided to remain and has been performing throughout the region for the past seven years. Meisha is known for curtailing her set list for different audiences and has one of the widest repertoires around. spanning songs from the 1920’s to the present. Look for Meisha at a venue near you and you won’t be disappointed!

The Power Trio plays vintage rock & roll and blues from Elvis and Chuck Berry to Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley. Three guys who have known each other most of their lives get together now and then for the love of playing music Vintage musicians playing vintage rock & roll. That's what The Power Trio is all about.

Karl Stoll and the Danger Zone is an award winning, butt-rockin’, electrifyin’, houserockin’ roots rock & blues band from Northern Virginia.

The Danger Zone’s most recent album, The Workhouse, was nominated for three Wammie awards in 2022, and was selected by DC Blues Society as Best Self-Produced CD for 2022. The title track received Honorable Mention by the Songwriter’s Association of Washington.

This band is rockin’!

For more than 20 years, The Danger Zone has been playing a unique mix of danceable Americana roots rock featuring the sounds of Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, Texas and DC, plus a collection of original songs being played on radio stations across the country.
The band has appeared on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor” to an audience of 15 million listeners!

Gates 6:30 & Music 7:00 PM
Kick off Independence Day weekend — and America’s 250th — the way it was meant to be celebrated: out on the farm, mead in hand, boots in the grass, and a powerhouse voice carrying across the flowers as the sun goes down.

Shenandoah Valley songwriter Rebecca Porter brings her honey-smooth voice and honky-tonk heart to Thistlerock for one special night. A Color Me Country Class of 2024 artist and NPR Mountain Stage performer, Rebecca writes the kind of real, rootsy, classic-country songs that’ll have you swaying one minute and two-stepping the next. Think Dolly-soaked storytelling, swooning guitars, and a whole lot of Virginia soul.

Pour a glass, find your dancing partner, and toast 250 years under a sky full of stars.

Tickets $25 in advance · $30 at the door · Kids under 12 are free to join
Thistlerock · Keswick, VA

Rebecca Porter embodies the soulful, lonesome sound of the Shenandoah Valley. After a decade of honing her craft as the frontwoman of local cover bands, she transformed pandemic loneliness into two EPs – “Prime Rainbow Conditions” and “Queen of the Local”, the latter of which was successfully crowdfunded in March 2023. With completely independent legwork, Porter’s music is making rounds nationally and internationally. Audiences react wonderfully to Porter’s fusion of honky tonk and singer-songwriter sounds performed solo or with her band, The Rhinestone Roses. Most recently, Porter was inducted into Rissi Palmer’s Color Me Country Class of 2024.

“Appalachian Red Dirt,” that’s how Jacob Paul Allen describes his style of Country Music. It’s a style and sound that he has crafted on stages large and small from coast to coast for the past 15 years. Jacob captures the audience with an infectious stage presence and reels them into the stories that he tells, both in his songs and his stage banter. He has released six songs which can be found on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services. You can also find Jacob just about every weekend performing throughout the region as a solo artist or with his full band., Jacob Paul Allen & The Flood