Pentagram String Band brings Satanic bluegrass to St. Pete on Sunday

Don’t worry, Missouri’s Pentagram String Band is not what happens when Mumford & Sons discovers the Ouija board.

Led by drifter and busker Johnny Lawhorn, the Kansas City outfit plays a murderous, misanthropic strain of bluegrass that feels conspicuously optimistic when it gets blasted out of the speakers. Ragtime-loving Louisiana busker Matthew Bracken Edens brings his Yes Ma’am project to the bill along with Arizona’s Little Foot and Sarasota’s own country-R&B act Mark Wagner & the Bad Habits.

Tickets to see Pentagram String Band play The Nest at St. Pete Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg on Sunday, March 1 are still available for $20–$25.

Blood Blood Blood by The Pentagram String Band

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This article appears in Feb. 26 – Mar. 04, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief…
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Pentagram String Band brings Satanic bluegrass to St. Pete on Sunday

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