Events, Concerts & Event Space
Don’t miss great music and good times. Or come make some noise of your own.
We host several events throughout the year and you can too. If you need event space in the Red River Gorge for a large group, wedding, wedding reception, birthday, reunions, corporate event, or just plain ol’ get together, contact us.
Samuel James & The New Impulse w/Tucker Knisell & Cody Lee Moomey
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Born and raised in Lewisburg, WV, this 21-year-old, self-proclaimed "Singer-SongRocker" has been tearing down bars, taverns, clubs, and venues across the east coast. Pulling inspiration from the likes of John Mellencamp, John Mayer, and Chris Stapleton, he is developing a sound that is uniquely, Samuel James. Bending strings and hearts with his smooth and soulful sounds and captivating audiences with an unmatched stage presence, he builds an atmosphere with every performance.
Samuel James, has had opening responsibilities for nationally touring acts like Easton Corbin and LoCash, when they have visited the Mountain State. Regionally he has found stage duties at the likes of Universal Orlando Studios and House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, and locally playing the best venues in the state like Theatre WV, Live on the Levee, and 123 Pleasant Street.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Sweet Lady w/Special Guest Don Rogers LIVE at the PIT HOUSE
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18 +
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is premitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Casey Campbell (of the Buffalo Wabs & Price Hill Hustle)
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Mountain Men Experience w/Justin Wells, Dave Shoemaker, WD Miller, & Aaron Boyd
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Mountain Men Experience presented by Mountain Grrl Experience & the Pit House!
Justin Wells with support from Aaron Boyd, WD Miller & Dave Shoemaker!
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$15 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Bedford W/Pedestryans Supporting
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
The band your mother warned you about. In an electrifying show of force, Bedford effortlessly blends the passionate sounds of Soul - with the sonic command and presence of Rock. Prepare yourself - it's a wild ride!
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Ian Ferguson w/Anderson Elswick
918 Natural Bridge Rd, Slade, KY 40376-9007, United States Map
Ian Ferguson is an artist based out of Nashville, TN who has been making records and touring now for a multitude of years. His visionary sound and aesthetic have captured the ears of everyone from Billboard to Paste magazine, not to mention fans from all over the globe. His new record is set to be released in 2023.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Chelsea Nolan, Corduroy Brown & Jen Tackett
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Doors 7pm
Music 8pm
Cover $10
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Mama Said String Band w/Hunter Flynn
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Mama Said String Band is an instant classic, since 2016 they’ve been bringing their own brand of the grassroots music you’re so used to hearing to stages everywhere. Based out of Louisville, KY, Mama Said String Band brings a refreshing reinvention to Bluegrass, Folk and Americana while focusing on vocal harmonies and contemporary instrumentation. Having won several notable regional awards including album of the year in the Lexington Music Awards for “Carry The Water”, Best Bluegrass Band in the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards, Bluegrass Artist of the Year in the Lexington Music Awards and with three nominations under their belt, they have made a notable imprint in the Kentucky Music Scene. They bring big, relatable emotions and honest songwriting to every show, leaving fans always wanting more.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
Cover $10
18+
*Have ID ready
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Isaac Rudd & The Revolvers AND George Shingleton LIVE at the PIT HOUSE
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Isaac Rudd and The Revolvers is an Americana Rock band blending multiple genres into a unique sonic experience. With differentiating instruments and styles this band has a song for everything. Frontman, Isaac Rudd, brings his songwriting to the forefront with recent projects Isaac Rudd and The Revolvers: Side A and Side B. Along with earlier original works from Rudd, and new takes on some of the bands favorite songs from the years, anyone can feel like their set is for them. Isaac Rudd and The Revolvers have been on the road with great acts like Parker McCollum, Casey Donahew, Flatland Cavalry, Josh Turner, Randall King and many others. Born and bred in the Midwest, this band has a sound all its own while still holding true to its country, roots and rock backgrounds.
Generations of Shingleton men have played an amalgam of bluegrass and the Appalachian "hill country" music familiar in their area of rural West Virginia, but George Shingleton was the first to make the move from the local church choir to Nashville. Despite a childhood spent with music at the forefront, however, he didn't seriously begin writing songs until he was an adult. Shingleton's second full-length album, 2020's Out All Nighter, proved him "a skilled song craftsman and a talented vocalist... straddling the line between outlaw country and southern rock in his own original style" (Glide Magazine), and his Shot or Two EP, released in January 2023, paired him once again with dear friend Dave Pahanish as his producer. Shingleton is working on more new material, to be released later this year, and is committed to maintaining authenticity and integrity within his stories and sound -- a move that has, throughout his career, garnered him the respect of artists such as Bucky Covington, Charlie Daniels, John Michael Montgomery, Darryl Worley, and others who have invited Shingleton to share the stage.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Lance Rogers Trio w/Jory Bowling
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Lance draws from his blue collar roots, the love of his Kentucky home in the Bluegrass region, and the heart of his varied musical influences to craft songs that appeal to story lovers everywhere. You'll hear traces of your own memories and life experiences in the unmistakable originality of a hard-working Kentuckian's unique, sometimes raw, perspective as he paints musical portraits that touch a range of emotions. �
Lance has opened for Arlo McKinley, Justin Wells, Billy Don Burns, Chris Knight, and Ward Davis� His self-titled, debut album was released in October 2021.
Doors 7pm
Music 8pm
Cover $10
18+
*Have ID Ready
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Dark Moon Hollow w/Jeoffrey Teague
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
“The group extracts honky tonk influences... and lends its expertise to the bluegrass realm, resulting in a high-energy sound that serves up the best of Kentucky’s signature musical stylings.” - Matt Wickstrom
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
“…a stunner; a sun-dappled potpourri of everything good and true about American rock’n’roll, from crunching hard rock to soulful blues, from breezy cosmic Americana to head-bopping summertime arena-rock anthems.” – Classic Rock Magazine (9/10 Review)
MojoThunder: 2 Sets
Acoustic Opening featuring special guests.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
Nick Ailes is a Folk Singer with deep roots that spread from the prairies of the Midwest, to the mountains of California. He plays a blend of Folk/Americana. Nick writes songs about his life experience, and places/events that lend themselves to great stories.
Nick wrote, recorded, and produced his first solo album "Hearts & Wire" In 2018. A work dedicated to the memory of his father. He's now released three singles, and the full 10 song LP was released June 2019.
The album is laced with beautiful vocal harmonies, haunting pedal steel solos, and songs that sound as though they could easily be from an older time, or this one.
In 2022 Nick decided that he wanted to test himself further by putting out a new record that he wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed himself. Almost everything you hear is something that he played, or sang himself, with the exception of the occasional pedal steel part which were played by close friends. He currently has released three singles off this record, with the full album to be released in 2023.
W.D. MILLER is the country soundtrack to the deep South’s oldest roots. W.D. hones in on earnest storytelling and song craft, keeping in the tradition of country and folk songwriters. Channeling equal parts John Prine and Merle Haggard with a dash of Tom Waits, his honky-tonk country hymns and folky ballads keep boots stomping and tears flowing, whether touring through Germany or taking a full ensemble band on the highways and byways of America’s back roads. W.D.’s solemn guitar chords and gravelly intonations sing to the vagabond, disaffected spirits of country music’s past, while carving a new voice from traditions of rock n’ roll, blues and folk. W.D. MILLER has become a recurring performer at the Muddy Roots Festival, Southbound and Down as well as regional tours throughout the southeast, proving this is a voice that speaks to the true heart of country and folk music. W.D.'s sophomore album "Hard Times Like These", was released in March 2022.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
D Boone Pittman & The Fugitives
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
With his sophomore album Emerge, D. Boone Pittman once again makes Eastern Kentucky seem as mythical, alluring and inviting as any setting that’s ever been immortalized in song.
We’ve all come to know and love places because songs have inspired us to daydream about them: Memphis, El Paso, New Orleans, San Francisco, L.A.—from "Sweet Home Alabama" to "the South South Bronx." But the scenery we encounter in Pittman’s songs is distinct in that he’s not just a troubadour passing through and observing for a night before heading for the next show. In fact, any place would be lucky to have a D. Boone Pittman to reveal its charms, its limitations, its stories, its humanity—its truth—to the world.
Having grown up in the Powell County town of Stanton, it’s as if the lay of the land has soaked into Pittman’s bones. And even when he touches on travails—be they his own or the more collective challenges he addresses for all of our benefit on Emerge—his love of home pours into every note of his rockin’ blend of country and bluegrass.
On the title track, for example, Pittman (who is also a pastor) grapples with the disintegration of our social fabric over a smooth, anthemic—and rather upbeat—Tom Petty-inspired country rock groove. Conversely, Pittman closes the album by extolling the value of resilience over a plaintive piano ballad on “Rise.” And of course, he takes us to the Kentucky of his childhood on songs like “Jordache Jenny” and “Casey Jones,” which weaves youthful nostalgia together with old lore, reminding us that the figure made famous by the Grateful Dead was actually a native of the area.
Pittman’s musical story begins in the early 1970s at the grand opening of the local town drug store. His late father, from whom Pittman would later inherit his trademark Martin D-28 acoustic guitar, basically forced him to sing a Johnny Cash song, much to the delight of the crowd that had gathered there. Pittman, though he immediately received enthusiastic accolades and even tips, wasn’t havin’ it.
“I hated it,” he recalls, “but I secretly loved it. In my room, I’m playing air guitar and pretending to be Elvis, but to do it in public as a kid was really tough. It wasn’t that I struggled doing it, it was just more the fact that I was being made to do something. That ended up driving me into a phase where I refused to sing out in public at all.”
Even going to a Johnny Cash concert at the age of 5 with his mother wasn’t enough to lure Pittman back into the spotlight, and transcribing the lyrics to hit songs off 45s for his father didn’t quite do the trick either—but it did lay the groundwork for the lyrical depth and flair that Pittman showed so effortlessly right off the bat with his 2019 debut Bluegrass American Dream.
“My dad would pay me a dollar a song to sit down and figure the words out for him,” Pittman chuckles. “I have to really question how good I was at it because I was so young, but I guess he was able to use it. Who knows how many of the lines I’d get right at the end of the day, but I think that’s when I got my first appreciation for lyrics.”
“Back when I was 7 or 8,” he continues, “country rock was really big, and ‘Lyin’ Eyes’ by The Eagles was a big hit. I remember that song specifically because there were so many verses in it. Even at that age, I could appreciate the darkness behind the cheating and the lying and everything in that song.”
Pittman’s resistance to performing in front of people went out the window, however, when he got the opportunity to go on a field trip as a freshman in high school.
“All the girls were going,” Pittman laughs. “It was an academic competition and they had a talent category. I specifically remember the teacher saying, ‘I need somebody to fill the talent spot. You get to go on this three-day trip to Louisville and compete.’ So I raised my hand. ‘Well what’s your talent?’ he asked. And I said, ‘I sing and play guitar.’ Nobody knew I sang and played guitar—because I didn’t! So I’m thinking I’ve got six weeks between now and this talent show, and that was when I had to swallow my pride. I go to my dad and I’m like, ‘Look, I’m ready to learn how to play guitar. I want to do this.’ And my dad was like, ‘You’re crazier than hell—I can’t teach you how to play in six weeks!’ I was like, ‘Just think of the easiest two-chord bluegrass tune that you know and I’ll run with it.’ So he taught me how to play a medley of Jimmy Brown The Newsboy and Wildwood Flower, but his style of playing was like Maybelle Carter, where they played the melody and the rhythm at the same time.”
The trip, alas, got cancelled, but Pittman’s life path was set. (By the way, he learned the song in four weeks.)
“There was just no running from it,” he muses. “I had an undeniable love for music, and singing came naturally to me. I’ve never put it down since.”
As a tribute to his father, Pittman adopted The Fugitives band name, but he sees his work as carrying-on an even broader legacy.
“I grew up in an environment where it was a common thing for people to bring their instruments over on the weekends—banjos, fiddles and guitars where everybody was singing and just having a good time. That was a really crucial aspect of my childhood. I really miss that. You don’t have that front-porch picking kind of spirit anymore, at least not where I’m at. So whatever I can do to bring it back with my music, I feel like I have to at least try.”
In other words, Pittman is inviting you back home—back home to a world that still has room for community, back home to the most cherished aspects of your past and back home to yourself. You don’t have to be from Kentucky for Emerge to take you there, but D. Boone Pittman sure does make it seem like a wonderful place to explore on the way.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Eli Howard & The Greater Good with Elijah Batson & Tara Dente
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
ELI HOWARD AND THE GREATER GOOD has an alternative country rock sound that has not only created a dedicated fan base in the Northwest and beyond but allowed him to share the stage with artists including the Steel Woods, Whiskey Myers, Shane Smith and the Saints and William Clark Green. Their new single “Wildfire” is rapidly gaining popularity on Spotify.
Tara Dente~“Grounded in a kind of rootsy Americana, it’s only after letting each song bloom that one begins to hear all of Dente’s varied influences. From her early years surrounded by the sound of Celtic and church hymns, to her self-guided tour through American vernacular music, you hear solid fingerpicking, storytelling, and a voice that always offers comfort. And from influences as diverse as Nick Drake and Enya, you hear a focus on not just songcraft, but soundcraft - using words and music seamlessly to create a cohesive whole.
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
Bella White w/Ireland Owens Supporting
Pit House918 Natural Bridge RoadSlade, KY40376 Map
A truly original new voice in songwriting, Bella White creates an undeniable magic by mining the rare duality at the heart of her artistry. Although she hails from the Canadian city of Calgary, the 22-year-old singer/multi-instrumentalist grew up on the classic country and old-time music she first discovered thanks to her father, a Virginia native who played in bluegrass bands all throughout her childhood. On her debut album Just Like Leaving, White balances her old-soul musicality with a lyrical perspective that’s entirely of-the-moment, embracing an intense self-awareness as she documents her coming-of-age in real-time. “I’m still quite young, but I was very young when I wrote this album,” says the Victoria, BC-based artist. “All of these songs came from processing my feelings right as I was experiencing certain things for the first time in my life.”
Produced by Patrick M’Gonigle of The Lonely Heartstring Band and mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Sinko, Just Like Leaving bears a powerful authenticity that prompted Rolling Stone to praise White’s songwriting as “sublime Appalachian heartbreak.” In sculpting the album’s sparse but lushly detailed sound, White worked with a lineup of musicians she encountered through years of making the rounds at roots-music festivals, including Reed Stutz (mandolin, vocals), Julian Pinelli (fiddle, vocals), and Robert Alan Mackie (bass). “I met everyone by jamming together, which felt perfect for this album—I really wanted it to sound like friends making music,” says White, who plays guitar on Just Like Leaving. “The whole process felt very collective and collaborative, and everyone’s creative choices ended up shining through.”
Currently writing for her second album, White has already begun to see the impact of her debut’s exacting self-reflection. “Just Like Leaving feels like a storybook of the things I went through when I was 18 and 19—each song is about a very specific feeling from my relationships during that time,” she says. “I’ve had a lot of younger people tell me that they relate to the experience of learning about yourself through someone else, and I’ve also had older folks tell me how it reminds them of when they were younger. I used to fear sometimes that I might run out of things to say in my songs, but I don’t feel that way after seeing how this album has affected people. It’s reminded me that there will always be a creative source for me to tap into.”
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
* Have ID Ready
*No alcohol can be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be asked to leave with no refund.
918 Natural Bridge Rd, Slade, KY 40376-9007, United States Map
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 presale via Eventbrite
$15 at the Doors
18+
*Have ID ready.
*No alcohol is permitted to be brought on our property that is not bought here. If you do not adhere to this rule you will be ask to leave with no refund.
918 Natural Bridge Rd, Slade, KY 40376-9007, United States Map
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
918 Natural Bridge Rd, Slade, KY 40376-9007, United States Map
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover
918 Natural Bridge Rd, Slade, KY 40376-9007, United States Map
Doors 7PM
Music 8PM
$10 Cover