VisArt After Dark Presents: Joe Middleton(clt) & Sally Jaye(ga/nvl)- Music

Name: VisArt After Dark Presents: Joe Middleton(clt) %26 Sally Jaye(ga/nvl)- Music
Start: 2026-10-16
End: 2026-10-16

$15 bucks 7:30pm doors at 7pm – come early general seating-bar/cafe open

In case you missed his sold out show at the Muse…Continue to celebrate Joe Middleton’s new release:

Blue Daffodiles

Middleton’s skill as a storyteller is on full display, ensnaring listeners with simple dialogue and a monotonous backing of steel guitar, violin, and piano. Heidi Sidelinker twists the final knife with delicate vocal pads that serve as an eerie “the end” to a tragic tale.

Closing out the album, Middleton leaves listeners with a hard-hitting final message. “My Own Eyes” honors the late Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman murdered by ICE agents in January, 2026.“It’s not the kind of song you want to write; it’s just something you have to write, ‘cause it just really makes me angry,” Middleton said.

Sally Jaye – touring the southeast – with originals from her upcoming release: You’ll be Okay, Baby and from the celebrated major release: Amarillo. New single: “Your Brother is on the News Again” out 8/28 and the new release: “You’ll Be Okay, Baby” out 10/2

Sally Jaye doesn’t want people to come see her. Instead, the Georgia native wants people to feel seen at her shows through the stories she shares.

Those stories, wrapped in joy and sorrow, both achingly sweet and often profound, are the framework of her fourth solo studio album, You’ll Be Okay, Baby. The 10-song record was produced by Brent Cobb in Macon, Ga, at Capricorn Studios and in Nashville’s The Studio with producer Ted Pecchio. From the celebratory “Making Pretty Babies” to the gentle poetry of “Bird Dogs and Fence Lines,” You’ll Be Okay, Baby is the undeniable result of a lot of living. And if you ever get the chance to look Jaye in the eyes, you’ll know she’s one with the mystery — a searcher of all things beautiful who has undoubtedly been through a hell of a lot of heartbreak.

Each song is a masterpiece of emotion and craft, a three-minute journey wrapped up with a lilting melody and a hooky chorus. You can hear the years spent in Georgia coffeeshops and dive bars, the move to Nashville to study at Belmont University, then California, a successful run as an actress, hundreds of shows played to crowds big and small, a return to Nashville in a season of grief, the joy of children, the reverberation of loss…

Her way with words makes it only logical that in 2025 she was chosen as an artist in residence at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, in celebration of the 100th birthday of Flannery O’Connor. She considers O’Connor one of her main influences, channeling the writer’s raw and unfiltered stories of life in the American South into her own timeless brand of songwriting.

Jaye’s 2006 album Amarillo is a cult favorite among Americana aficionados – and music supervisors who regularly use its tracks in TV and Film. “Miss Ater” was re-cut years later by Brent Cobb. Her songs have also been recorded by Leah Blevins, Shannon McNally and others. She has shared the stage with Patty Griffin, Allison Moorer, The Civil Wars, Lucinda Williams, Shooter Jennings and more, and, to those in the know in LA, was certainly a regular and favorite in the halcyon days of Hollywood’s Hotel Café both as a solo artist and as a part of the bands Ladies Gun Club and Pink Birds.

She played Bessie Coburn on the CBS drama “Christy” alongside Kellie Martin, Tess Harper and Tyne Daly. On one episode, she sang with Judy Collins. She has appeared in the films “Too Late” and “Sunday Punch” and co-wrote the credits track for the film, “If Only” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, which was recorded at Abbey Road with the London Symphony Orchestra.