NEWGRASS FESTIVAL GUIDE

Newgrass vs. Jamgrass

Newgrass Music and Jamgrass Music is basically the same thing. They are both unconventional improvisations of other music with Bluegrass and Electric instruments. Newgrass is Fun! However, Jamgrass is a knee slappin, foot stompin, whiskey drinking, get out of your chair, and dance because you can't help it, kind of music where you really have a lot of fun!

We recently reviewed the Newgrass bands in the Atlanta area. One band stood out. The High Strung String Band from Athens, Ga. defined Jamgrass. Every song they played was performed as if they were having the time of their lives. That is what Jamgrass Music is about. Making music a lot of fun!  

High Strung String Band

 Greensky Bluegrass

(Not your Grandmothers Bluegrass)

In November 2007 the band released its first live recording Live At Bell's, documenting two shows at Bell's Brewery in their hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 Just over a month later Greensky Bluegrass added Anders Beck of Wayword Sons to the line-up, replacing Al Bates on dobro. In August 2008 the band released their third studio recording Five Interstates, also produced by Tim Carbone.

Their fourth, and most critically acclaimed album, Handguns, made its debut on Billboard's Bluegrass Charts at No. 3 in October 2011, and spent nine weeks on the chart, landing at No. 33 for 2011 on Billboard's Year End Bluegrass Chart.

^{Greensky Bluegrass has been known to share the stage with act like Sam Bush, The Hackensaw Boys, Larry Keel, and Railroad earth.}