"GREENSBORO — Bryan Smith is a familiar face along Slip 10.

Maybe you've seen him. He's the big guy over at The Depot who drives a city bus. He pulls his brown hair back into a short ponytail, has a music-note tattoo on his right bicep and goes by the nickname Songbear.

For good reason.

Twice a month or so, he steps into our more far-flung musical pit stops, with shorthand names like Cuzon's and The Flat, and plays an original mix of folk and country that digs into his own take on love and loss.

Yeah, he's our Ralph Kramden of local music." Read the rest

I'm happy to announce that BloggingPoet.com is a sponsor of the Reidsville Lake Music Festival which kicks off Friday night at the Flat Iron Tavern on Summit Avenue in Greensboro then moves to Reidsville Lake in Reidsville, North Carolina on Saturday morning. I'll be there and hope you will be too.

Listen to some of those who will be performing.