Jam packed Labor Day weekend

FRIDAY >> SUNDAY

Front Porch Fest

With Dangermuffin, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Big Daddy Love, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Peoples Blues of Richmond, Former Champions, The Shack Band, Galaxy Dynamite, After Jack and more

A full live music lineup is scheduled at a spot that many say is one of the most magical and peaceful in the state. Americana favorites Dangermuffin, Holy Ghost Tent Revival and Big Daddy Love mix with electronic jammers Former Champions and Galaxy Dynamite. Such local and regional acts as Mad Iguanas, Tobacco Apache, After Jack, Funk Punch, and Grass Monkey will turn in sets over the weekend.

Details: 3 p.m. Friday;
9:30 a.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. Sunday. Spirit Haven Farm, Stuart. $60 weekend pass online; $80 weekend pass at gate; other passes and camping prices vary. Frontporchfest.brownpapertickets.com, 540-414-3037, frontporchfest.com

FRIDAY >> SUNDAY

Floyd Yoga Jam

With Bryan Elijah Smith & The Wild Hearts, Lobo Marino, The Main Squeeze, William Walter, Deer Run Drifters, Spoon Fight, Jagadisha, Janiah Kike & Miguel, Scott Perry & The Back Porch Swing, Bernie Coveney & Andrea Marshall, MC Yogi, Donna De Lory, Sean Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band, Moonlight Mariners and more

You can do yoga, or you can jam out to live music. Roots-rock act Bryan Elijah Smith & The Wild Hearts is an act to catch, while bluegrass (Deer Run Drifters), indie rock (Spoon Fight), blues and swing (Scott Perry), even raga-inflected hip-hop (MC Yogi) will be represented.

Details: 6:30 a.m. Friday (music at noon); 6:30 a.m. Saturday (music at 2:15 p.m.); 6:45 a.m. Sunday (music at noon). 5555 Indian Valley Road, Willis. $150 three-day ticket; $55 single-day ticket; $25 car pass; $50 RV pass. 553-4378, floydyogajam.net

SATURDAY

Hope for the Tape Deck Label Premiere Party

With The Sad Cobras, The Missionaries, Psalmships

An independent record label bringing what its principals call “earhole treasures” from Philadelphia and Roanoke hopes to take advantage of the fact that a lot of us still have cassette decks in our cars and homes (this reporter surely does). This party features the one-off reunion of Roanoke band The Sad Cobras, which made some gorgeous and sometimes wacky music and featured inimitable vocals from Paige “Deedraye Halliston” Hodges. The rest of the band — Daniel Cundiff (Eternal Summers), Jonathan Woods (Eternal Summers) and Sam Lunsford (The Young Sinclairs) can make some righteous noise, too. Go to blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch for a podcast with Cundiff, who joined the band after seeing Hodges and Woods at No Shame Theatre, doing improvisation with what he remembers as “drum machines, exercise bikes and food.”

The Sad Cobras and The Missionaries, also from Roanoke, along with Philly’s Psalmships will have tapes out that night. Get a listen to those and more Hope for the Tape Deck releases via hopeforthetapedeck.bandcamp.com.

Details: 7 p.m. River Laker Cultural Center, 16 West Marketplace, Roanoke. $6. hopeforthetapedeck.com, themissionariesva.bandcamp.com, psalmships.bandcamp.com

MONDAY

Harvester Performance Center Presents: Rocky Mount 140th Birthday Celebration

With Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line, After Jack, Groova Scape

Rocky Mount’s new venue isn’t yet complete, but its manager, Gary Jackson, is already giving a hint of what’s to come with this free, outdoor show just across the way from the Harvester Performance Center. Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line has been on a remarkable run with its debut CD, “Carnival.” NPR’s All Songs Considered blog debuted the video for the band’s “Bike Ride,” with no less a musical authority than the network’s Ann Powers calling “the summery song” a “great introduction to her beguiling, well-considered worldview.” Read all of Powers’ glowing commentary and see the video at tinyurl.com/kvksoxd.

Details: 4:30 p.m. Farmers Market, Citizen Square, 435 Franklin St., Rocky Mount. Free. facebook.com/HarvesterPerformanceCenter, norajanestruthers.com

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