Yacht Rock Flashband Showcase

At The Pocket inside 7DrumCity, the “Yacht Rock Flashband Showcase” turns a one-night-only lineup into a kind of musical relay, where hobbyist musicians assemble through Flashband’s matchmaking process and reappear weeks later as fully formed, short-lived bands. The result is a soft-focus spin on live performance: smooth-pop and blue-eyed soul tropes refracted through a rotating cast of players who only met at the rehearsal stage, now carrying that shared shorthand onto a 75-capacity stage. Hosted by 7DrumCity, the Flashband format keeps the focus on the novelty of formation as much as performance, with each group interpreting the yacht rock brief in its own slightly different register of funk, disco, jazz, and laid-back groove. Inside The Pocket’s tight, club-like room, the effect is less nostalgia act than experiment in collective musicianship, where familiarity comes not from a single band’s identity but from the genre’s shared, sun-bleached vocabulary.