The Lakeside concert series returns with Danity Kane's Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn.
Saturday, March 29, 2025 @ 7:00 pm | Lakeside Stage
The next Lakeside concert will feature Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, with special guest Chessa Rich. | Doors at 6pm, Music at 7pm | Dinner available from Native Root | Get Tickets
DAWN RICHARD, a New Orleans–reared visionary, has had an improbable journey from late 2000s reality television and mainstream pop with girl group Danity Kane to become one of the most prolific, experimental, and visible indie R&B singer-songwriters of the last decade and a half, with seven solo albums under her belt. Richard says she wants to "be the reason why a young Black girl from the South can be whoever she wants to be musically, visually, and artistically." [Listen on Spotify]
SPENCER ZAHN is an East Coast–raised multi-instrumentalist and composer working at the intersections of jazz, Americana, classical, and ambient pop. His growing solo discography includes People of the Dawn, Sunday Painter, Pale Horizon, and Statues I & II, as well as the duo's first release, Pigments, which was hailed as Best New Music by Pitchfork and received praise from Stereogum as Album of the Week, NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, The Fader, and Bitter Southerner, among others. [Listen on Spotify]
"The singer and composer scale down their collaboration for a grief-saturated set of songs filled with austere piano melodies and diaristic reflections…The air between Richard's soulful, diaristic lyrics and Zahn's austere piano is charged, pulled taut as wire." — Pitchfork
CHESSA RICH is a North Carolina-based musician whose informed rule-breaking songwriting is steeped in a past not only of musical collaboration and performance, but of a gentle persistence to discover oneself amidst a vibrant landscape of others. The nine tracks on her Deeper Sleeper LP divulge—in Rich's distinctly seasoned sound—the heartfelt importance of having mindfulness of those closest to you. Across the LP's sonic landscapes, Rich finds herself in various states of consciousness. [Listen on Spotify]
Lakeside Concert Series
Drawing inspiration from a legendary 1990 Sun Ra Arkestra performance at the same spot, Lakeside is a new genre-bending concert series showcasing today's best pop and rock acts on the scenic grounds of NCMA Winston-Salem. With a stage situated on a picturesque hillside overlooking a spring-fed lake, the landscape's natural amphitheater and wooded setting creates a concert experience unlike any other.