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The Devil and Daisy Dirt: A Garden State Gothic, Alt-Folk Event

  • Flounder Brewing Co. 2 Clerico Ln Building 4 Hillsborough, NJ 08854 United States (map)

Join us for this unbelievably weird and strange and what will certainly be an unforgettable night. As featured in the current issue if Weird NJ (right on the cover!). We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate Halloween than with NJ’s very own Jersey Devil.

Tickets available HERE

Tickets are General Admission seated
This event is 21+ only
Doors open at 6
Show starts at 7:30 and runs approximately 1 hour

DRINK WITH THE DEVIL! @ FLOUNDERS BREWERY. That's right, rock-n-roll rebels, on Tues. Oct 29 at 7:30 PM, Hillsborough is the Pine Barrens and Flounders Brewery is the Devil's Diner, when these folks raise some hell with their original, bluegrass, tall tale, The Devil and Daisy Dirt. This Halloween season, give the Devil its due. 

A bluegrass tall tale about the Jersey Devil with live music and an 8' wearable puppet. On the night of an annual appetite contest called "I 8 the Devil," Daisy Dirt finds something strange - winged and antlered, wounded but alive - in the dumpster behind Lucille's Luncheonette (aka the Devil's Diner). With the help of a Piney palm reader named Effie and a piece of magic muscle meat from the basement game locker, Daisy evades a villainous poacher named Tasty (Murder) and risks everything to save it. Think Pine Barrens "Our Town" meets cryptid E.T, with a shoulder-shot Jersey Devil instead of a stranded extraterrestrial, deer hunters instead of federal agents, and a portal that opens above the Apple Pie Hill fire tower after a midnight lightning strike instead of an alien mothership shaped like a Christmas tree ornament. All backed by a high lonesome sound.

"Riveting and one-of-a-kind!" (Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter), "Stunning! Jim Henson meets Johnny Cash!" (Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword), "Amazing! It will absolutely blow your mind!" (Jersey is the World), "All kinds of cool and a whole lot of fun!" (Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians), "Very weird and very Jersey!" (Weird NJ), "Leathery and magical! Dawson is the Chuck Norris of storytelling!" (Clay McLeod Chapman, Ghost Eaters), "Brilliant! Muscular! Half creature feature, half country song!" (Lee Pfeifer, Cinema Retro) "Beautiful! Incredible!" (Adrien Beau, The Vourdalak), "Powerful, poetic, and really strange!" (Will Rogers, Guide to the Unknown). Don't miss the Garden State Gothic, Alt-Folk Event everyone is talking about. "See it to believe it!" - Weird NJ.

Earlier Event: October 26
Jon Caspi & The First Gun
Later Event: November 1
Kenny Curcio - Acoustic Friday