Where:
Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center
1 School Street
Foxborough, Massachusetts 02035
Admission:
$20 advance, $25 at door
Categories:
Alcohol, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.orpheum.org
Molsky's Mountain Drifters bring bluegrass hot to the Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 7:30 pm as they celebrate the release of their new album: Closing the Gap. Closing The Gap is a snapshot of the Mountain Drifters after a period of intense touring, of learning each others isms and instincts, and as a result slowly developing our collective isms and instincts as a unit. This album is MMD in our natural and instinctual state of BEING; raw, playful and free, the way the music is meant to be. The music is hopeful and optimistic and comes from the heart, and so we start the story off with this: Theres a bright side somewhere, ain't gonna rest until I find it. We look at the world all around us, and that thought continues to resonate. The title track of Allison de Groot's Closing the Gap feels like a race. Each note tries to catch up with the next, narrowing the gap and steadily propelling the tune from one section to the next.
Bruce Molsky, “one of America’s premier fiddling talents” (Mother Jones) and Grammy-nominated artist on fiddle, banjo, guitar and song is delighted to present his new group already on tour in the US. Bruce’s previous collaborations, with Anonymous 4, 1865 – Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War, was released to rave reviews and was on the top 10 Billboard charts for weeks. He is also a special guest on legendary guitarist Mark Knopfler’s latest CD, Tracker and is working on his 3rd album with Andy Irvine & Donal Lunny’s supergroup Mozaik. You can also hear Bruce on BBC TV Transatlantic Sessions singing with Joan Osborne, Julie Fowlis and fiddling with Scottish legend Aly Bain and America’s great dobroist Jerry Douglas. Bruce is also Berklee College of Music’s Visiting Scholar in the American Roots Program.
Allison de Groot combines wide ranging virtuosity and passion for old-time music. With her own bands The Goodbye Girls and Oh My Darling, she has played Trafalgar Square in London, Newport Folk Festival, Stockholm Folk Festival, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Tønder Festival in Denmark. Like Bruce, Allison loves collaborating and bringing new ideas to old music, and brings a fresh approach to the trio.
Boston-based Stash Wyslouch is one of bluegrass’s great young genre-bending pioneers. He got his start as a guitarist in metal bands before immersing himself in roots music as a member of The Deadly Gentlemen. Stash is a veteran festival performer, having played at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Rockygrass, Merlefest, Savannah Music Festival and others. Coming over from the punk-metal world, Stash brings great sensitivity and real emotion to the trio, plus some superb guitar and vocal chops.
Reserved Seating tickets are $20 in advance ($25 at the door) at www.orpheum.org. Contact the MRPAC Box Office for group and member discounts at 508-543-2787 or [email protected] For more about Bruce Molsky, Allison deGroot and Stash Wyslouch, visit www.mountaindrifters.com.