Here's some more good news for live music fans. The Infamous Stringdusters, Travelin' McCourys, and Sierra Hull & Justin Moses will appear next month at VanHoy Farms in North Carolina for a two-day, socially-distanced outdoor mini festival. Billed as The VanHoy Revival Music Series, this April 23-24 event will feature the 'Dusters both nights, with [...]
And now for something completely different... trance music for banjo. Chris Pandolfi, who wields the five for the Infamous Stringdusters, has blended his prodigious technical mastery of the banjo with his passion for electronic music. Often included under the term EDM, for "electronic dance music," this style is highly composer-centric, as it is generally built [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters have augmented their 2020 holiday music collection today with two new singles celebrating the Festival of Hanukkah, which begins today and runs through December 18. An album of Christmas songs, Dust The Halls, was released earlier this month and now the anthology is complete with the release of Maoz Tzur and Hanukkah [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters are the latest to board the 2020 Christmas train, with a new single out today from their upcoming album, Dust The Halls: An Acoustic Christmas Holiday! This marks the band's 10th studio recording, and their first with their new label, Americana Vibes. It includes ten Christmas favorites we all love, which banjo [...]
Andy Hall, reso-guitarist and vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, has a new album coming up next month, filled with his solo arrangements of a dozen bluegrass standards. Its title describes the project perfectly, 12 Bluegrass Classics for Resophonic Guitars. The setting couldn't be simpler: Andy sits down with his dobro and picks through a set [...]
With COVID-19 restrictions lifting in various parts of the US, we are finally getting chances to see some of our favorite artists on stage again before this summer is completely behind us. Some acts are braving the live-on-stage events where they are allowed, and many others have opted for the drive-in style concerts where folks [...]
Travis Book, bass player, songwriter, and lead vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, has announced a new project. Starting June 25, he will be hosting a new online program that will combine music and discussion, airing live from The Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC. And happiness. He told us today that this would be a big [...]
And now for something completely different... The Infamous Stringdusters have never been afraid to take their music in new directions, or to apply their forward-looking grass to different styles. So you may not be shocked to learn that their latest collaboration is with rapper G. Love (Garrett Dutton) on his hit with Special Sauce, Cold [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters rolled into Grand Rapids, MI last Thursday for a show at the St. Cecilia Music Center, as a part of their Acoustic Cafe series. Luckily, Bryan Bolea was in the audience, and captured this gallery of images of the 'Dusters at work, and the impact of their frenetic, multi-hued laser light show [...]
A rousing and resourceful band by any definition, the Infamous Stringdusters find inspiration in a traditional template while still allowing themselves the freedom to navigate their way towards the future. The instrumentation adheres to a routine regimen — fiddles, banjos, resonator guitar, mandolin, and high harmonies are well represented on their front line — but [...]