Cigarettes @ Sunset bring their "possum rock" down the mountain to Greenfield Lake on March 20

The Boone five-piece and Lost Highway signees have booked Greenfield Lake Amphitheater for Saturday, March 20, 2027, an early-season night under the cypress trees.

Picture the first warm-ish Saturday of spring at Greenfield Lake: the cypress knees poking out of the water, the bugs not quite awake yet, and a band from the other end of the state tuning up. That's the scene Cigarettes @ Sunset just put on the calendar.

Cigarettes @ Sunset play Greenfield Lake Amphitheater on Saturday, March 20, 2027, with the show set to start at 8 p.m. The date was announced Oct. 27, and tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster. The amphitheater holds 1,200, which is roomy for a band this early in its run and exactly the size where a word-of-mouth act can feel like it owns the night. If you want a good spot on the hill, don't wait until the week of.

So who are they? Cigarettes @ Sunset are a five-piece from Boone, signed to Lost Highway Records. They call what they do "possum rock," a self-coined tag that uDiscover Music describes as a blend of Americana, indie-rock and Appalachian folk "with punk spirit baked into the ribs." Their Lost Highway debut, the six-song EP *Possum Rock*, came out in March 2026.

The singles since then have kept a steady drip going. "Appalachian Raised," a bittersweet song the band dedicated to its hometown of Boone and the surrounding hollers, arrived in July, per Breaking and Entering. "Gasoline" followed at the end of July, and "Carolina Shakedown" landed at the end of September, according to BroadwayWorld. That last one, produced by Taylor Kimball, pushes bluegrass drive through a rawer rock sound, and it's the track to queue up if you're deciding whether to buy.

A mountain band playing a lake in the flatlands: there's something right about that.

There's a harder story underneath the songs. When Hurricane Helene tore through Boone and the High Country in late 2024, it changed everything for the band, as uDiscover tells it. A lot of Wilmington folks know what it is to rebuild after a storm, and that shared experience is part of why a band like this lands differently here than it might in a city with no coastline or no mountains.

As for the name of the genre, singer Garrett Dellinger has said it came from a bar gig, when a patron wandered up to the merch table and asked whether they played possum rock. They kept it.

Greenfield Lake is the right call for that kind of band. It's a park first and a venue second, and shows there tend to feel like a neighborhood gathering that happens to have a PA. A March date also makes this one of the earlier nights of the outdoor season, so bring a layer for when the sun drops behind the trees.

Tickets are live, the room is modest, and five people from Boone are about to find out how loud a Wilmington crowd can get by a lake in March.

Sources: Listen To Cigarettes @ Sunset's 'Carolina Shakedown' (uDiscover Music) (udiscovermusic.com); Cigarettes @ Sunset Release New Single 'Carolina Shakedown' (BroadwayWorld) (broadwayworld.com); Cigarettes @ Sunset Release New Single 'Gasoline' (BroadwayWorld) (broadwayworld.com); Cigarettes @ Sunset Come Home on Bittersweet New Single 'Appalachian Raised' (Breaking and Entering) (breakingandentering.net); Cigarettes @ Sunset (Red Light Management) (redlightmanagement.com); Cigarettes @ Sunset at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater (Ticketmaster) (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase show listing (jambase.com)