The Great Cover Up 2025

A musical community comes together through the power of cover songs to raise money for charity at Kings, a beloved venue in Raleigh.

This is the story of a single concert that grew into a community institution in Raleigh, North Carolina, inspiring ordinary people to become rock stars for 15 glorious minutes. After 15+ years and 500+ cover bands, the annual Great Cover Up event is an unabashedly creative, silly, DIY cover band concert that celebrates individuality amongst an increasingly uniform world.