For Stringdusters, Night of the Living Dead is cause for celebration
The Grammy-nominated bluegrass-rock band will play the Highline Ballroom on Oct. 30 and 31. On the first night, the Stringdusters will celebrate the music of The Grateful Dead with a special performance, "Night of The Living Dead." The band will be joined by special guest Keller Williams, and the show will get started with an opening set from rising acoustic group Cabinet. Halloween night will be an early Evening with The Infamous Stringdusters.
Prior to that, Andy Hall (Dobro), Andy Falco (guitar), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle) and Travis Book (upright bass) will play a special show for the recovering town of Lyons, Col. on Sept. 13.
Viva Lyons will be an event of remembrance, marking the one-year anniversary of the flooding that caused great damage throughout the Colorado Front Range and the rebuildingof towns. Col. Gov. John Hickenlooper, who will attend Viva Lyons, declared Sept. 13 a statewide day of service. At the end of the day volunteers will congregate in Lyons' Bohn Park for a performance by The Infamous Stringdusters.
Other upcoming tour dates are:
Aug. 15 - The Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ
Aug. 16 - The Peach Music Festival - Scranton, PA
Aug. 17 - RCA Summer Music Festival - Rowayton, CT
Sept. 6 - Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival - Harrodsburg, KY
Sept. 7 - Crossroads KC - Kansas City, KS w/ Joss Stone
Sept. 13 - Viva Lyons at Bohn Park - Lyons, CO
Sept. 19 - St. Johnsbury Academy Fuller Hall - St. Johnsbury, VT
Sept. 20 - Freshgrass at Mass Moca - North Adams, MA
Oct. 9-12 - The Festy Experience - Roseland, VA
Oct. 30-31 - Highline Ballroom - New York
The Festy Experience is the band's own festival, which also features Williams, Steep Canyon Rangers, Noam Pikelny + Stuart Duncan and Marc Broussard.
The Infamous Stringdusters will release its latest album, "Let It Go," on vinyl on Oct. 28.
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CD reviews for The Infamous Stringdusters
Like many modern bluegrass bands, the Infamous Stringdusters tend to tap tradition, but only as far as it helps navigate their way towards the mainstream. Granted, the basic accoutrements are there - as evidenced in the confluence of fiddles, banjos, resonator guitar, mandolin and high harmonies - but this band, like such storied contemporaries as the Steep Canyon Rangers, Town Mountain, Punch Brothers, the Sam Bush Band and the like, place more of an emphasis on melody than simply on their ...
The Infamous Stringdusters are keeping busy. Their third release of 2017, "Undercover Vol. 2," the second-half follow-up to 2015's "Vol. 1" is a five-track adventure that pays respect to a few of the band's favorite artists. From Marvin Gaye to The Cure, the 'Dusters once again push the limit of bluegrass. Long considered a progressive bluegrass band, The Infamous Stringdusters may have stumbled into something new, alternative bluegrass perhaps. ...
The Infamous Stringdusters have always been difficult to categorize. That's part of their charm. Part traditional bluegrass (leaning on sound bluegrass instrumentation, namely guitar, Dobro, banjo, fiddle and standup bass), part jam band (extended sets of songs in their live shows in which one song triggers another), and wholly original with a signature sound and energy that goes on without cease.
In the last year, The Infamous Stringdusters have released an album of duets with female ...
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