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Band Pals

  • A Good Natured Riot – Sassy, classy folk and bluegrass from Richmond, VA
  • Boneanchor – The best band in Richmond
  • Chester River Runoff – Cutting edge bluegrass from the Eastern shore of Maryland
  • Copilot – Funky rock and rockin funky soul from Richmond, VA
  • Dick Butt Kiss and the Tightends – And you think we’re offensive! Another great example of Richmond’s bizarre musical influence. Must be all the fecal coliform in the water.
  • Flat Iron String Band – Straight up traditional Appalachian old time string band music. Very very strong
  • Furnace Mountain Band – The finest music on four legs! Well, really it’s two sets of two, but . . .
  • Goldmine Pickers – Bluegrass and Irish Folkiness from Amish country in Indiana
  • Hot Day at the Zoo – Lowell Mass’s spectacular string band.
  • Jackass Flats – Our great enemies and close friends. Like Caesar and Cassius, Mickey and Donald, Bill and Ted.
  • Mon City Ramblers – Fast pickin’ urban bluegrass from Pittsburgh, PA
  • Ophelia – Young all-female old time quartet from West Virginia
  • Packway Handle Band – “Alt Bluegrass” from Athens, Georgia
  • Pokey LaFarge – One of our best pals, think Emmett Miller, think Jimmie Rodgers, think jug/ragtime heaven.
  • Speedsquare – Experimental rock/pop duo from Asheville, NC
  • The Bowmans – Such beautiful singing and songwriting from the beautiful Bowman sisters.
  • The Falsies – Absurdist rock band from Charlottesville, VA – Don’t you tell them what to do; They are more rock and roll than you.
  • The Fox Hunt – WV’s finest New-Time rowdies.
  • The Hillbilly Gypsies – Sweet sweet bluegrass pickin and singin from WV
  • The Two Man Gentleman Band – So handsome, so witty, so very New York City!
  • The Whiskey Rebellion – Joyful bluegrass quartet from Richmond and Charlottesville and our good buddies, duh
  • The Wilders – Honky tonkin’ country buddies from Kansas City who we’ve played with in Scotland
  • The Wiyos – “Omniphonic full-harmonic realtone resonators,” in their own words. NYC buddies!
  • The Zydepunks – Not too Zydeco’y, not too punk’y, but certainly wild and excellent!
  • Thomas Bailey – Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and longtime pickin pal based in NYC
  • Vulgar Bulgars – Central VA’s finest klezmer riot!

Booking

Festivals

  • Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion – Annual music festival held in September, celebrating Bristol’s musical heritage and featuring country, gospel, bluegrass, and roots music.
  • Clifftop Appalachian String Band Festival – A great place to get schooled, or just relax in the shade and enjoy acoustic music all day and all night.
  • Edinburgh Fringe Festival – The largest arts festival in the world, with over 31,000 performances including cutting edge comedy, theater, music, and dance
  • Galax Old Fiddlers Convention – Another great place to get schooled! The musical highlight of our year.
  • OATS Bluegrass Festival – “Out Among the Stars” is the Grillbillies’ annual festival, held July 4th weekend at the Rodeo Grounds in Benton, Pennsylvania.

Miscellany

  • Dean Markley Strings – The string of choice for our banjoes, guitars and mandolin
  • Minimum Wage Recording – Lance Koehler’s studio in Oregon Hill, Richmond, where we’ve recorded and mixed the last three albums.
  • Schatten Design – These folks make a great pickup, and they’re nice enough to supply them to the likes of us!
  • The Artwork of Ben Belcher – Our fab banjoist/bassist is also a killer artist.
  • The Sound Art of Aaron Lewis – Our fiddle player’s two-disc compilation of field recordings from Maine
  • WDVX – Blue Plate Special – One hour of live music every weekday at noon out of Knoxville, TN, with hosts Tony Lawson, Red Hickey, and Matt Morelock
  • WETS – Studio One – The Tri-Cities only live performance radio program, heard every Saturday at 1pm, out of Johnson City, TN, with host and producer Dave Carter
  • WRIR – Richmond Indie Radio – One of the best low-power FM stations out there, and home of Josh’s ‘Edge of Americana’ radio show

Other Performers and Friends

  • Aaron Greenhood – Founding band member who left early to pursue photography, which he’s pretty good at
  • All The Saints Theater Company – Our co-conspirators and comrades-in-arms in Richmond, incredible puppets and theatrics
  • Annie B. Campbell – The wife of our very own Ben Belcher is herself a fantastic, award winning ceramicist. Check her out!
  • Big Meat – Former band member Bryan “Cupcake” Walthall has turned to the dark side: beatmaking, audio engineering and music production
  • Captain Frodo – The Incredible Rubberman and friend from Edinburgh Fringe
  • John Haywood – Appalachian artist and old time banjo picker from East Kentucky
  • La Clique London – Incredible circus and variety show, friends from Edinburgh Fringe 2008
  • Paul Zenon – Street magician, sideshow enthusiast, Fringe buddy and a good fella
  • Shep Huntly – Sideshow extraordinaire, Aussie, no mucking about! A class act and also maybe a little frightening.
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