We are so excited to present a most special evening of music and food at our restaurant on Tuesday, March 10 featuring Grammy Award winner Woody Platt and Shannon Whitworth. They’ll perform after a communal dinner at Seabird as part of an evening hosted by New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash. Wiley and Mallory Cash and their wonderful family are set to open their independent bookstore Floodplain Books in downtown Wilmington in late summer/early fall, and Seabird is helping them celebrate and raise money to support their journey in bringing this incredible asset to our downtown community.
Tickets are $250 and $475 for the VIP experience. $250 tickets include a family-style meal, three drink tickets for beer and wine, and intimate seating for this one-of-a-kind experience. We are asking that people are seated and listening for the music portion of the evening.
The VIP experience ($475) is limited to 8 guests and includes private dining with Woody Platt, Shannon Whitworth, and Wiley and Mallory Cash and features champagne, North Carolina caviar, our seafood tower along with family style dinner, curated wine pairings, and a locally-printed Floodplain Books tote bag. VIP guests will move to our chef‘s table for exclusive seating during the music portion of the event.
We will do our best to seat parties together, but because this is a fundraiser with very limited space in our restaurant, we are requiring guests to be a little bit flexible in seating arrangements. Please feel free to call if there are specific questions.
Family style dinner will have rounded offerings that include vegetarian, meat based options, and some seafood. As always, we are willing and able to accommodate most every dietary restriction, however, please let us know if you have especially challenging requests from a food perspective.
Tickets for this evening are nonrefundable, but are transferable once purchased. Tickets may be purchased at OpenTable
When: Tuesday March 10
Doors open at 5:30, Dinner at 6pm
Where: Seabird, 1 S Front St
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Woody Platt has always found a home in music and in the water. He has been blessed with the opportunity to successfully follow his passion for music and being a champion for the rivers and streams of Western North Carolina. A founding member of Steep Canyon Rangers, Woody has won numerous awards collaborating with the likes of Steve Martin, Del McCoury, and Jerry Douglas. In 2018, Woody and the Rangers were inducted to the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. In 2025 he received the North Carolina Award from Governor Josh Stein, the state’s highest civilian honor.
Artist and musician Shannon Whitworth lives in a renovated farmhouse with her husband and young son in the mountains of North Carolina. After two critically acclaimed albums with the iconic bluegrass band, The Biscuit Burners, Whitworth released four solo albums, a duets album, and has garnered comparisons to singers from Patsy Cline to Billie Holiday, as well as contemporaries like Neko Case. Like her music, her visual art is anchored in the dual landscapes that have informed her aesthetic: the mountains of North Carolina and the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Mallory Cash’s photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, Garden & Gun, The Bitter Southerner, and other publications, and she has been featured in galleries in Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Her work has been funded by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, named an Editor’s Pick by The Charleston Post and Courier, and selected as a 2022 Staff Favorite by the Pulitzer Center. In 2024 she received an MA in Journalism and Media from UNC-Chapel HIll, where she was awarded the Tom Wicker Award, which recognizes excellence among graduate students in journalism.
Wiley Cash is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of four novels and host of the Our State Book Club Podcast. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, Garden & Gun, and other publications, and his fiction has been adapted for the stage and screen and published in multiple languages. A three-time winner of the Southern Book Prize, his novels have been selected as bests of the year by The New York Times and the American Library Association. He teaches fiction writing at UNC-Asheville. In 2025 he received the North Carolina Award from Governor Josh Stein, the state’s highest civilian honor.