Greengrass

A New Compilation Featuring 16 Michigan Bands, Proceeds Go Towards Combating Climate Change.
350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.

Unless we are able to rapidly return to 350 ppm this century, we risk reaching tipping points and irreversible impacts such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and major methane releases from increased permafrost melt.
On October 24th 2009, people around the world and all throughout Michigan will unite to demand change.

The Strutt, and the I.D.E.A. Association will be hosting a panel discussion on the subject of sustainable development for Kalamazoo. After the event, we will be hosting regular public forums to help facilitate a local sustainable development project. Proceeds from the CD sales will go toward design and implementation.
The success of the 350 movement depends on you! Stay involved! Don't remain silent!
Artists & Tracks

   1. Seth Bernard - The People's Priority
   2. Graham Parsons - Migration
   3. Anna Ash and the Family Tree - Honesty
   4. Red Tail Ring - Strong Hands
   5. Greensky Bluegrass - Be A Part
   6. Glowfriends - Be Surprised
   7. Nwe Spryghts - Geographic Review
   8. Toro &the National Guard - Automatic Transitions
   9. Max Dandyslax - The Atmosfears Suite
  10. Melting Man vs. the Sun - Black Water Sky
  11. Nathan Kalish - Chain Gang
  12. Rootstand - Black Malard River
  13. Dooley Noted - Big Fish
  14. Who Hit John? - Hopkin's Creek
  15. Blackwater Valley Songs - Crawl
  16. Fiona Dickinson - Buy It In Bottles


Be A Part • 350.org

Captured in it's entirety on 7/30/2010 at Mexcali Live in NJ. Multitracked and studio mixed/mastered for your listening pleasure. 2 full sets of originals, bluegrass and some great covers. High energy show and a great example of Greensky Bluegrass' celebrated live show.

No Idea • All Access: Vol. 2

From the 2008 album, "Five Interstates"
©2008 Big Blue Zoo/Greensky Bluegrass

Reverend • Five Interstates (2008)

200 Miles From Montana • Five Interstates (2008)

New Country Blues - Emmitt-Nershi Band

Grateful Dead  11/29/80  University of Florida - Shakedown ->Franklin's ->Estimated Prophet

MAINE SATURDAY WRAP PARTY IP24 Part 1

After all the effort to put on our annual show in the middle of the woods at the Silent Stage Theater, all the puppeteers, performers, stagehands, and audience deserve a big Wrap Party at Captain Dave’s log cabin porch to celebrate. These jams were extraordinary, perhaps the best recordings I was able to capture at the 2024 Island Party. There was such an abundance of wonderful must-include
songs, they wouldn’t fit on 1 CD, so we broke it into 2 parts.

This music was recorded in August 2024, on an island in the middle of a big lake in Northwest Maine, where we’ve been gathering, thanks to the Loons, for decades. Many of these friends, musicians, and singers from Maine and from all over the country and abroad, hadn’t seen each other, much less played with each other, for at least a year. It’s all improvisation, Jams, not Performances, with no prior Rehearsals or Song Lists, so this is as real as it gets.

This album is arranged in the actual order in which the music was played, minus the many out-takes, but, when it’s all done, it seems I couldn’t have thought of a better order. The music is all acoustic Americana, though it ranges all over the place, from Bluegrass to Jazz to Folk to Country to Rock to Reggae, but it really works as an organic album, and that’s big for people like me, who still appreciate albums.

Sounds best, like you’re right on that island in Maine partying with us, when played on a good stereo with two separated speakers, left and right, or on a headset, or, one of my favorites, on a car stereo, so that this stereo recording will actually sound three-dimensional. You can hear the location of each instrument and singer. More than ever before, I was able to immerse myself (and my stereo pair of mics) into the belly of the music, literally surrounded by the musicians, the instruments, voices, and harmonies, so that, if you listen in true stereo, I can take you right in there with me.

On some songs, there’s a little too much chatter, but when you’re actually at a campfire, and people are talking, laughing, and partying, you filter that out, and the only thing you hear is the music. Crank it up, and let your imagination take you there, and enjoy. It’ll surprise you.

Recorded, edited, and mastered
by Mike Berliner, aka Mikethemikeman

01 Dirty Old Town

From the 2011 album Handguns 
©2011 Big Blue Zoo/Greensky Bluegrass

Handguns - Handguns(2011)

Shoofly Pie

Trey Anastasio Band - Money Love And Change

The Lil Smokies performs live at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded September, 21, 2017. Sound by Andy Coco and Matt Bueltmann. 

Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org.

Live at KDHX 9-21-17

The Lil Smokies "California" Live at The Stage at KDHX 9-21-2017

Sparkling Wine

Railroad Earth - Head - Irving Plaza '07

BROOKLYN BLUEGRASS BASH

Chris Robinson Brotherhood performs "Rosalee" on Oct. 27, 2012 at the Pour House, James island, SC

Chris Robinson Brotherhood 2012-10-27 - Rosalee

From "Ventura", the all new Phish 6-CD box set featuring two complete live shows, recorded July 30, 1997 and July 20, 1998 at Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, California. Available for pre-order now: bit.ly/phishventura

Split Open And Melt - "Ventura" Box Set - 7/20/98 Ventura, CA

“There’s this great duality to our band,” reflects Greensky Bluegrass mandolinist, vocalist, and songwriter Paul Hoffman. “We’re existing in a few different places at once: we’re a bluegrass band and a rock band, we’re song-driven and interested in extended improvisation.”

“We play acoustic instruments,” adds dobro player Anders Beck, “but we put on a rock’n’roll show. We play in bigger clubs and theaters, there’s a killer light show, and we’re as loud as your favorite rock band. It’s not easy to make five acoustic instruments sound like this – it’s something we’ve spent years working on.”

From these seemingly irreconcilable elements, the five members of Greensky Bluegrass have forged a defiant, powerful sound that, while rooted in classic stringband Americana, extends outwards with a fearless, exploratory zeal. The tension and release between these components – tradition and innovation, prearranged songs and improvisation, acoustic tones and electric volume – is what makes them so thrillingly dynamic, in concert and on record. “In theory,” Hoffman explains, “greensky is the complete opposite of bluegrass. So, by definition, we are contrasting everything that isn’t bluegrass with everything that is.”

Be A Part • 350.org

Greensky Bluegrass

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