Live Music
Live Music in Mooresville, NC
Turn up your plans with live music throughout Mooresville. Catch an acoustic set over dinner, find a local band playing at a brewery or cocktail bar, sing your own favorites at karaoke, or build a weekend around one of the town’s outdoor concerts and signature music events. Mooresville’s calendar includes weekly performances, music games, downtown festivals, and concerts throughout the year.
What’s Playing in Mooresville
Looking for this weekend’s lineup? Check out upcoming concerts, performances, music nights, and festivals happening around Mooresville.
Find Live Music at Local Bars, Breweries, and Restaurants
You don’t have to wait for festival season to hear live music in Mooresville. Local breweries, restaurants, bars, and cocktail lounges regularly put musicians on the calendar, making it easy to pair dinner or drinks with a live performance.
158 ON MAIN
Downtown Mooresville’s cocktail lounge keeps its entertainment calendar packed with live music every weekend, plus karaoke, open mic nights, comedy, original music, and other performances throughout the week.
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HOPTOWN BREWING COMPANY
Hoptown fills Friday and Saturday nights with live music and mixes music bingo, trivia, themed events, and other entertainment into its weekly calendar.
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FLOCK. BISTRO
Make Thursday your live-music night at Flock., where musicians perform most Thursday evenings alongside the restaurant’s dinner and drink service.
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OVERFLOW
Head to LangTree for weekly live music and special events at Overflow. Its calendar includes performances from local musicians as well as touring acts.
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KING CANARY BREWING CO.
King Canary’s Mooresville taproom books live music on select Friday evenings, during Market Days, and for special events throughout the year.
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Live Music Takes Over Downtown Mooresville
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Downtown Festival of Food Trucks
APRIL-OCTOBER
Bringing live music and tasty eats together, this event features live bands along Main and Broad streets from 5-8:30 pm on the first Saturday of April, May, June, August, September, and October. -
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Rock the Park
MAY - SEPTEMBER
Rock the Park brings free outdoor concerts to Liberty Park each summer, pairing live performances with local food trucks and Mooresville breweries. -
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Arts & Acoustics
APRIL & OCTOBER
Music moves throughout Downtown during Arts & Acoustics, with live performances inside and outside participating businesses, along with artists, shopping, and special activities. -
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Bands, Brews and BBQ
SEPTEMBER
One of Mooresville’s major annual music events brings live performances, barbecue, craft beverages, and festival activities together at Liberty Park in Downtown Mooresville.
Sing It, Guess It,
or Play Along
Not every music night requires sitting back and watching the stage.
Take the mic during Wednesday night karaoke at Dive Bar in Downtown Mooresville. Ghostface Brewing keeps music interactive with weekly Music Bingo and Karaoke Idol on its current events calendar, along with rotating trivia nights that regularly include music and pop-culture questions.
Music Bingo is also part of the weekly lineup at On Tap in Downtown Mooresville, while Hoptown Brewing Company hosts its own Thursday Music Bingo night.
Whether you know every lyric, recognize a song in the first few seconds, or simply want your turn at the microphone, there are plenty of ways to get into the music instead of just listening to it!
Looking for a Different Kind of Live Performance?
Mooresville’s music calendar stretches beyond acoustic sets and cover bands.
The Lake Norman Big Band performs on the third Monday of each month at Wobbly Butt Brewery at New Victory Lanes.
The Lake Norman Philharmonic also presents concerts in Mooresville, including performances at Liberty Park and the Charles Mack Citizen Center.
Dig Through the Crates
Keep the music going between performances with a little vinyl hunting.
Keep the music going between performances with a little vinyl hunting. Old Dog Vinyl Records operates inside Main Street Antiques & Design Gallery in Mooresville, offering a curated selection of vintage and remastered records spanning rock, country, blues, jazz, R&B, soul, folk, and more.
Downtown Mooresville is also home to additional record and media stops, including Fred & June’s and Mooresville Used Books, along with Rock Star Records and Sell Your Soul Records, where collectors and casual listeners alike can dig through crates, browse shelves, and discover something new.
