In 2005, Dom Flemons created the Carolina Chocolate Drops with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson. The group honored the legacy of their mentor, Joe Thompson, and the traditional string band music of North Carolina. In 2010, they won a GRAMMY for their album Genuine Negro Jig and then received a 2012 GRAMMY nomination for their album Leaving Eden.

Flemons toured with the group from 2005 to 2013 and officially left the band to pursue his solo career in 2014. In 2016, the Carolina Chocolate Drops were inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. The CCDs are featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and at the National Museum of African American Music.

Dr. Flemons, now based in the Chicago area, is famously known as The American Songster® since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, actor, slam poet, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on 650 AM WSM in Nashville, TN. He is an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife, and rhythm bones.

As a solo artist, he has toured over a million miles all across America and throughout Canada, Ireland, the U.K., Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, and Malaysia. Flemons has performed at historic venues throughout the U.S. including the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman, the Kennedy Center, Abraham Lincoln’s Cottage, Appomattox Courthouse, National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the opening ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Don't miss this very special opportunity to hear Dom Flemons in America's oldest city, St. Augustine. The Waterworks is an intimate, historic venue (built in 1898 & on the National Register of Historic Places). Only 120 tickets are available on Eventbrite.

St. Augustine’s Bad Dog Mama (Chelsea Saddler & Lauren Gilliam) open.

Doors at 6:30; Bad Dog Mama at 7 with Dr. Flemons at 8.