Hannah Wicklund books Poe Mill Music for Dec 9, with Slow Funeral and Leah Blevins

The South Carolina rock guitarist plays the Pinckney Street studio-and-venue on a Wednesday in December. Tickets are $17.

Hannah Wicklund usually headlines rooms of about 200. For one night in December she's playing somewhere stranger and smaller: a recording studio in an old Greenville mill village that also happens to have a stage.

Hannah Wicklund plays Poe Mill Music on Wednesday, Dec 9, 2026, at 7:30 p.m., with Slow Funeral and Leah Blevins. The show was announced Oct 20, and tickets are $17 through Prekindle. For three acts that's a bargain, and in a room this size it won't last.

Wicklund plays blues-rooted rock and leads on guitar, and she's been at it a long time. Her debut, *Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones*, came out in 2018 on her own label, Strawberry Moon Records; the Steppin Stones name belonged to the band she fronted before she put her own name first. Her most recent full-length, *The Prize*, came out in 2024 and was the first record without that old name on it. Greta Van Fleet's Sam Kiszka produced it and played bass, keys and organ, with his bandmate Danny Wagner on drums. Wicklund has said about five years passed between the two records, and that it "felt like an entire lifetime."

Kerrang singled out the opener, "Hell in the Hallway," and the record's psych-rock leanings. Coverage described its theme as the passage from girlhood to womanhood, and Wicklund made the album art herself. It's a guitar record first, the kind best heard close enough to see the playing.

Poe Mill Music is about as close as it gets. The place opened in spring 2025 in the Poe Mill community on Pinckney Street, the project of founder Brice Smith, who built a 5,300-square-foot facility with a recording studio, practice rooms, a podcast booth, event space and a 100-seat listening room. It's a different kind of venue for Greenville: studio first, stage second, designed for people who came to listen.

It has also become a bigger part of the city's live-music picture. When Swanson's Warehouse stepped back from full-time live music this year, four of its music staff moved over to Poe Mill. Shows like this one, a touring guitar player with two supporting acts on a weeknight, are exactly what that shift was supposed to bring.

A touring rock guitarist, a $17 ticket, and a room built for listening.

A few practical notes. It's a Wednesday with a 7:30 start, and Slow Funeral and Leah Blevins open, so get there on time to see the whole bill.

December shows in Greenville can get lost in the holiday shuffle. Don't let this one.

Sources: Blues Rock Review — Hannah Wicklund announces 'The Prize' produced by Greta Van Fleet's Sam Kiszka (bluesrockreview.com); Blues Rock Review — Hannah Wicklund: The Prize review (bluesrockreview.com); Grateful Web — Hannah Wicklund upcoming album and new single (gratefulweb.com); Kerrang! — Album review: Hannah Wicklund, The Prize (kerrang.com); GVLtoday — Poe Mill Music is now open in Greenville (gvltoday.6amcity.com); Post and Courier — Poe Mill Music concert studio, Greenville (postandcourier.com); Greenville Journal — Poe Mill Music (greenvillejournal.com); Prekindle — Hannah Wicklund at Poe Mill Music (prekindle.com); JamBase — Hannah Wicklund at Poe Mill Music (jambase.com); Greenville Journal - Swanson's Warehouse stepping back, staff join Poe Mill Music (greenvillejournal.com)