Wine Down on Main Features Musical Performances Through November

Wine Down on Main, located at 28 E. Main Street in Brevard, displays a rotating gallery of local artists and presents music several days a week. This week’s featured musicians include Blake Ellege on Thursday, Ben Phan on Friday, and Andy Coats on Saturday.

Blake Anthony Ellege started performing at a very early age. When he was 2 years old, during a church service one Sunday, he looked at his mother and said: “Mommy, I want to sing.” She stood him up on the piano bench, and to her amazement, he sang all three verses and choruses of a hymn. It was then that she knew that he was destined for greatness.

A year of jazz conservatory at Virginia Commonwealth University left Ben Phan rebellious: uninspired by the environment and fed-up with the structure, he knew he didn’t want to be an academic musician. So Phan began his professional career as a founding member of the Richmond Afrobeat Movement, a blend of jazz, funk and African dance music which earned significant attention in the South, including a TV appearance and other media features.

Born and raised in North Carolina, Andy Coats has been involved in music since his early teens, when he sang and played in a hard rock band and later a progressive rock band. From there he worked his way back to the genres in which so much rock is rooted: the blues and other roots based music. “My passion for this sort of music really came to a head when I was about 25 years of age. I was living in Southern California, struggling through graduate school, and it was then that the magic of the blues masters fully hit me. I dove head first into Robert Johnson’s material, listening to it daily.”

November Music Schedule

November 15, Thursday – Blake Ellege
November 16, Friday – Ben Phan
November 17, Saturday – Andy Coats
November 21, Wednesday – Blake Ellege
November 23, Friday – Bradford Carson
November 24, Saturday – Daniel Sage
November 29, Thursday – Blake Ellege
November 30, Friday – Noah Proudfoot

Wine Down on Main is a cozy wine bar with dozens of wines by the glass, craft beers, charcuterie, paninis, and more. They offer gluten free and vegetarian options. Please visit winedownbrevard.com for additional information.