Music Venue

Picaflor’s venue offers a wide variety of events and performances. We book all kinds of musical acts, from acoustic artists to punk bands. We’ve also booked former Crank Yankers puppeteers, local and touring comedians, as well as fire-spinners and jugglers. Currently, Picaflor only hosts music events on either Friday or Saturday evenings. Check out our upcoming events page for more information about our future shows.

If you’re interested in booking a show here at Picaflor, please email either Kathryn@picaflorstudio.com or Justin@picaflorstudio.com.

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Coming soon to Picaflor

Oct 2nd
Strezo Live Band, Circus, and Tarot Card Readings

Oct 23
Misfits Art Show, followed by West End Motel doing the Misfits. More info coming soon!

July 17 at Picaflor Studio - Maggie & her Mistakes, Lonesome City Travellers, Neil Cribbs, The Signallers

Maggie and her Mistakes

“Magpie” Cramer makes no bones about it — she likes to drink, she hangs with a tough crowd and she isn’t afraid of the wild world around her. Her smooth southern voice almost speaks as she sings about her surroundings. Maggie & Her Mistakes hearkens back to a long lost country past before modern slick Nashville producers turned the genre into a commercial farce what once was.

Listen to Maggie & her Mistakes on myspace

the Lonesome City Travellers

These troubadors from Florida take you back to when folk music was celebratory, even among the heartache and despair of a wandering life. The band mixes it up instrumentally, often accenting with an accordion or a banjo. Make no mistake though — at their heart, the Lonesome City Travellers is a country band. And, as a bonus, the bass player has the most impressive afros to ever grace the Picaflor stage!

The Signallers

The Signallers give listeners some down home alternative country music that tends to rock but at times also reveals a softer side. The Signallers are no strangers to whiskey drinking or barfights and wield their electric guitars with grace and style. The band harmonizes with a scratchy home-grown drawl that is at times reminiscent of John Cougar Melencamp or, dare we say, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Neil Cribbs

Neil Cribbs plays acoustic music that comes straight from the heart. Originally from Boone, North Carolina, with influences ranging from Alt-Counry to Americana, Cribbs’ songs are lyrically driven immersions into every day human emotions like love and loss, often glimpsing into the stories of people like you and me.

Mike & The Mini Machine Guns, Dickerson, Chickens & Pigs

AT EYEDRUM! AKA Blondie Benefit

March 13 - Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon

April 24 - Book of Colors, Oryx and Crake, Dare Dukes

June 5 - Southeastern Songwriter Showcase w Taylor Hollingsworth, Young John Goodman, Efren, Corey Pallon

Feb 3 - Picaflor sponsors Benefit for Haiti at The Earl

Driven by a desire to help in some way, however big or small, with the current crisis in Haiti, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year, Los Buenos, and Book of Colors will perform a benefit show at the EARL February 03, with all proceeds going to the Atlanta-based CARE International and their relief efforts in Haiti.

“None of us have much money and we realized any donation we made personally would be minor and might not make much of a difference,” said Justin Sias, singer and bassist for Los Buenos and a co-organizer of the event. “We wanted to help give East Atlanta and the folks in our small scene a chance to get involved in helping those whose lives have been devastated by the massive earthquake, and all the small ones that have followed, in Haiti.”

A global humanitarian nonprofit, CARE International is dedicated to fighting issues surrounding poverty.

“CARE came to our attention because they are an amazing international group based right here in Atlanta and has been helping impoverished nations and people for years,” Sias said. “They’ve been there for Haitians since the earthquake hit, and we want to support them however we can.”

Aqiyl Thomas will DJ, and there will be an auction of arts and services at the event, including original art by the infamous Gutterpop and photography services from XXX. Pine Magazine, See Through Souls, Picaflor Studio, Containment Theory Records and the Moon and Pluto are among the many sponsors of this worthy event.

“We’re hoping that everyone can make it out and bring a friend ’cause these folks need our help,” said Believe, a member of the Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and a co-organizer of the event. “Help us make this an amazing event.”

Advance tickets are on sale now for $5, and will be $7 the day of show. Go to www.badearl.com to learn more about the show, and learn more about CARE at care.org.

What: Benefit show for Haiti relief through CARE International featuring Los Buenos, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and Book of Colors

Where: The EARL, 488 Flat Shoals Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30316

When: Wednesday, February 3, at 9:30 p.m.

How much: $5 before the show, $7 the day of the show

More details: There will be an art auction and raffle, with all proceeds going to CARE Intl. Pine Magazine, See Through Souls, Picaflor Studio, Containment Theory Records, the Moon and Pluto, Gutterpop, ISP, Dry Ink, are helping sponsor the event.

Jan 29 - Pine Magazine Presents a Photography Exhibit with Alana Goldstein, Dave Batterman, Karen Shacham - music by today the moon tomorrow the sun, club awesome, this piano plays itself,

Feb 27 - Wighat, Tom Thumb, Corey Pallon, Chickens & Pigs

March 6th - Now See This!

Join Picaflor on March 6 for our next Art Series. We’ve assembled some very cool local artists and bands to showcase and satisfy your creative appetite. stay tuned. more info on the way…

Artists:
Tim McGrath, Jon Hinkemeyer, Chris Bell, Bill Conor (from Liberty), Nathan Morris

Bands for the evening:

Keith Richards Birthday Bash - Chickens & Pigs & Friends

2009 Artisan Market/Party

December 4 - Gutterpop Presents ARTARI w The Falcon Lords and Grand Prize Winners from Last Year

Local Pop Artist to Hold Art Show

GutterPOP! artist and designer James Curran will host Artari, an original Art Show inspired by Retro Arcades at Picaflor Studio located at 195 Arizona Avenue on Friday, December 4th beginning at 7pm.

The show features over 20 pieces of 80’s inspired mixed media reflective of days spent in the arcade including Galaga, Frogger, Ms. Pacman and BurgerTime. Each original will be available for sale with bids accepted during the evening.

Free wine and cheese will be served from 7 - 9pm immediately followed by local bands Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and The Falcon Lords. 80’s attire not required but highly recommended.

Over the last two year’s GutterPOP! has celebrated the popular art show John Oates WILL Fucking Kill You! and iconic Take your SHIT back to Buckhead series.

For more information call Picaflor Studio at 404.247.6432.

November 20 - Choking Sun Presents Enlist!

Choking Sun is a triumvirate collective of artists who specialize in multi-dimensinal performances, utilizing improvised and composed music, interactive sculpture, video and analog projection, lightshows and ceremonial aspects, to establish immersive environments for the audience.
Click here for a full press release.
Preview art and music at www.chokingsun.com.

November 14 - See Through Souls

Music begins at 3 p.m. and includes a rare performance by Tag Team with friends Walk From The Gallows, Los Buenos, What Happened to Your Fire Tiger, TheDolldaze, Cassavetes, Chickens & Pigs, Corey Pallon, Kathryn Humphrey, Wes Ables, The Good Graces, Ramon Wals  ~ with DJs Spy Magnet and Press Play.

For more information, visit www.seethroughsouls.org

Oct 30 - Pine Magazine Halloween’s Eve Party w West End Hotel, Los Buenos, Wighat

Oct 17 - Howlies, Mourdella, The Blue Eyed Goodbyes (ACP Art Opening)

Photography Exhibit by Kate Crosby

Oct 9 - The Long Shadows, The North Trolls, Teenage Illiterates

Oct 2 - Art Opening for Jess Snyder! Music by Grand Prize Winners, Bury Me a Lion, and Spirits and the Melchizedek Children

Sept 21 - Jack Carter, Jed Drummond, Kira Annalise

Sept 18 - Mice in Cars, Walk from the Gallows, Humboldt Trio

Sept 11 - Fox Trotsky, Rabbit, Wes Ables

Sept 4 - Sick Figures, Cassavetes, Feeding Fingers

August 28 - Naomi Lavender, Blake Rainey, Los Buenos, Nadia Marie, DJ Press Play

August 21 - Grand Prize Winners from Last Year, Balloonaut, Son 1 and the Insurgents

August 14 - Recession Vacation Art Opening

Music for the evening:

August 7 - Mary O. Harrison and the Tiny Tears, the Good Graces, Chickens & Pigs

July 31 - Pistolero, Author’s Apology, What happened to your fire tiger, DJ Press Play

They built their own amps, they record voraciously, and they are true students of rock and roll. They are Pistolero.
Special Guests:

July 24 - Jeffrey Butzer

“With a solid following continuing to build in Europe, Asia and the US, Jeffrey Butzer is easily one of Atlanta’s new prized musicians with music that is reminiscent of Gainsbourg’s darker days in France, of the thematic explorations of Galt McDermont, and of songs that create the setting of late nights that are experienced but experimentative, the sort of nights we all wished we had more often.” -Pine Magazine

Special Guests:

Sept 25 - It’s Elephants, The Holland Dutch