Southern Rail heralds in the holidays with a joyous Christmas concert at the OFF THE SQUARE COFFEEHOUSE in Hingham, MA on SUNDAY DEC. 15. Expect stunning Gospel harmonies, traditional and Appalachian Christmas carols, irrepressible good humor, and sparkling banjo, guitar and mandolin. The place is always packed, so reserve your seats today!
Southern Rail is back at the LINDEN TREE for their eagerly anticipated Bluegrass Bash! Expect an evening of high energy bluegrass with lush harmonies, irrepressible good humor, and sparkling instrumental work. Southern Rail will be celebrating the recent induction of guitarist Jim Muller and bassist Sharon Horovitch into the RIBA Bluegrass Hall of Fame. Tickets go fast, so reserve yours today! Expect awesome home baked goodies, hot cider and coffee and a packed house!
Challenge Nights: Sign-ups start at 6:30 PM in Spire Lounge - Limited to the first 20 people. Thu Jan 9, 2020 Thu Jan 23, 2020 Thu Feb 6, 2020 Thu Feb 13, 2020 3 Winners we be selected at each challenge round for the finals (both winners and anyone who was not picked can come back to any of the following challenges and perform but finalists can only picked once). Finals: Hosted by Boston Catalano & Mike Visconti Will take place on the Spire's stage Fri Feb 21, 2020 | 8:00PM The winner of the Finals will get to open up for a national act on the Spire's stage, $250 prize and 2 free hours out of every 10 hour recording block through Soaring Sound Studios. All contestants will be responsible for setting-up in bringing their own instruments. DI's, amp, and piano will be set-up and available for use along with mics.
Everybody knows and loves the Gibson Brothers. They are great musicians and singers, and they always provide one of the most entertaining concerts in the business. This concert will be a pure bluegrass concert, so come and be entertained.
Southern Rail brings their exuberant blend of upbeat bluegrass and happy mayhem to the renowned Rose Garden Coffeehouse in Mansfield. This promises to be another packed house, featuring lush harmonies, irrepressible good humor, and sparkling banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. Reserve your tickets soon!
Young Boston based band has won many IBMA awards in their short career. They have toured the world, and perform everywhere to rave reviews. Mostly all original songs, done in traditional style, and played with skill and passion. Certainly one of the hottest bands in America.
An acoustic band born in the land of tech innovation, Front Country was never going to be accepted as an authentic American roots band out of the gate. Cutting their teeth in progressive bluegrass jams in San Francisco's Mission District and rehearsing in the East Bay, they learned to play roots music their own way, with the tools they had on hand. One day in late February, the five members of Front Country were warming up for their record release show at the renowned bluegrass club the Station Inn, in their new home base of Nashville, Tenn. They'd never played most of these songs live before.It wasn't a given that these musicians would wind up in anything remotely resembling a bluegrass band. Singer Melody Walker got into world music and belted out roots-rock. Bassist Jeremy Darrow studied jazz. Leif Karlstrom trained as a classical violinist, and still prefers that title to "fiddle player." Mandolinist Adam Roszkiewicz studied classical guitar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The actual guitarist in the band, Jacob Groopman, did his share of exploring after college, too. "I was in an Afrobeat group for about five years, touring around in this 10-piece kind of hippie Afrobeat band," Groopman says. In the bluegrass world, musicians tend to define themselves by their relationships to tradition — specifically, the tradition of high-and-lonesome singing and a hard-driving sound. There are regional variations from Virginia to Colorado. The West Coast has its own freewheeling tradition, and that's where Front Country started out: at a monthly jam in San Francisco. Then its members heard about a band contest at a bluegrass festival. "And we ended up winning that band competition," Walker says. "The very next day, … Read More »
Join the Boston Bluegrass Union and celebrate the legacy of the late Joe Val with three big days of indoor bluegrass at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel. Great bands, two stages, jamming, workshops, vendors, master classes, Kids' Academy....it's a full and fun weekend of everything bluegrass.
Lush Gospel harmonies, irrepressible good humor and sparkling guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass. Check out Southern Rail's eagerly anticipated Sunday morning Gospel set at the Joe Val Festival! See you at 11 am!
The 6th annual Back Porch Festival returns with all-star line-ups of American roots artists at The Academy of Music and The Parlor Room in Northampton, MA and Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, MA. The Back Porch Festival takes it's name from the long running Sunday morning radio program on 93.9 The River and hosted by Signature Sounds president, Jim Olsen. The festival is curated to present some of the favorite artists featured on the Back Porch radio program.