Florence Dore w/ Bark

Proud Larrys Presents.. Florence Dore with Bark

May 18, 2024. Show: 8PM

Free Show- No ticket required

Nashville-born, Chapel Hill-based Florence Dore’s newest record, Highways and Rocketships, recorded with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, won Best Americana Album of the Year at Lonesome Highway Magazine in 2022. Even not counting the pandemic, the road from her first record Perfect City to Highways and Rocketships has been anything but straight. She spent a lot of time between then and now riding around on Steve Earle’s tour bus, catching up with her Dukes-drumming husband Will Rigby (also of the legendary dB’s), wrote a couple books, put on a conference at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, took a seat on the board at the Bob Dylan Institute--and had a kid. Back in 1994 the Posies covered Florence’s song “Christmas” for the Geffen release, Just Say Noel, and over the first pandemic months, when she had to suspend recording plans for Highways and Rocketships, she co-created Cover Charge, the charting compilation of NC artists to benefit Cat’s Cradle. 

Dore may be rocking at night, but during the day she is a professor at UNC Chapel Hill, teaching literature and songwriting classes. She keeps up with the tenure clock writing books and articles about rock. In Ink in the Grooves, Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll, which includes essays by and interviews with the likes of Richard Thompson, Laura Cantrell, and Roddy Doyle. Florence has been touring hard since the record came out in June, with the dB’s rhythm section, Rigby and Gene Holder, as well as Mark Spencer (Son Volt) on guitar.  She will be joined by this rocking group, the Bona Fides, at Proud Larry’s.