Twisted Pine at the Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar, Nashua, NH
Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar 35 Railroad Square, Nashua, NHTwisted Pine is a wild and unpredictable bluegrass band delivering powerful vocals, hard-driving rhythms, and virtuostic musicianship. Based in Boston, the band is composed of Dan Bui on mandolin, Ricky Mier on banjo, Kathleen Parks on fiddle and vocals, Chris Sartori on bass, and Rachel Sumner on guitar and vocals. Twisted Pine has performed on the main stages of major festivals such as Greyfox Bluegrass Festival, Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Greenriver Festival, FreshGrass Festival, Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, and more. In 2014 they won both the FreshGrass and Thomas Point Beach Beach band competitions. Recently, the band received a grant from the Iguana Music Fund at Club Passim to record their debut full length album at Compass Records Studio. They were nominated for the 2015 IBMA Band Performance Momentum Award and tied for first place at The Rocky Grass band competition. They are now in artist development at Signature Sounds.