The Lonesome Heroes will play SA’s Lonesome Rose Friday. Credit: Nina Rangel

The Lonesome Rose has been honky tonkin’ on the south end of the St. Mary’s Strip for six years now.

To celebrate that anniversary, the venue at 2114 N. St. Mary’s St. has lined up a four-day festival of live music that includes more than just country and Americana. The stacked lineup for the bash — which runs Thursday through Sunday — also will dip into rockabilly and varied strains of alt-rock, indie and even ambient.

Heavy hitters include Fort Worth country-fried singer-songwriter Summer Dean, Texas troubadour and Ameripolitan Awards creator Dale Watson and voice actor and country singer-songwriter Grey Delisle. Local favorites including El Nuh, Ston the Band and Nicky Diamonds will share the bills.

Also included in the lineup are Austin ambient project Precious Gems, Virginia Creeper, Fear Snakeface, Snowbyrd, Jordan and the Recordmen and Antiquated Joke.

Here’s the schedule:

Thursday
8 p.m.
$10

El Nuh
Ston the Band
Virginia Creeper
Precious Gems

Friday
9 p.m.
$12 advance / $15 at the door

Summer Dean
Nicky Diamonds
Grey Delisle

Saturday
9 p.m.
$20 advance / $25 at the door

Jordan & The Recordmen
Dale Watson

Sunday
6 p.m.
$5

Fear Snakeface
Snowbyrd

As the self-described “oldest honky tonk on the St. Mary’s Strip,” the Lonesome Rose has stood out thanks to a well-curated music calendar that ranges from boot scootin’ boogies to Mediterranean psych rock and anything in between. While the dance floor’s likely to be trodden by two-steppers on any given night, the club’s booking policy goes well beyond just that.

Other honky tonks claiming to be “y’allternative” have come and gone on the Strip, but they’ve hardly managed to get on the fightin’ side of the Lonesome Rose. In the end, the Rose’s title didn’t need defending — the club just stayed the course and remained true to itself.

That peaceful laser-focus could well come down to proprietor Garrett T. Capps of cosmic cowboy outfit NASA Country. Like Capps’ recent single “Flow State” preaches, “We got a thing that seems to be beyond time and mortality.”

So it is with the unwilting Rose.

Free-$20, 8 p.m., The Lonesome Rose, 2114 N. St Mary’s St., thelonesomerose.com.
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This article appears in Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2024.

Stephanie Koithan is the Digital Content Editor of the San Antonio Current. In her role, she writes about politics, music, art, culture and food. Send her a tip at skoithan@sacurrent.com.