Yonder Mountain String Band (Saturday)
2024 Lineup | Past Years: 2023 Lineup | 2022 Lineup | 2019 Lineup
Get your jam on with the legendary Yonder Mountain String Band. The Grammy-nominated quartet, pioneers of the jamgrass movement, are back with a bang in 2024, bringing their signature blend of progressive bluegrass, rock, and improvisation to the High Meadow stage, all sans drums. Adam Aijala (guitar, vocals), Ben Kaufmann (bass, vocals), Dave Johnston (banjo, vocals), and Nick Piccininni (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, vocals) will showcase their new studio albums and revisit classic songs drawn from their 26 years of performing. Notorious for their wild live shows, choice cover tunes, and lengthy onstage experimentations, YMSB earned an especially loyal audience on the jam band circuit. They bring a high-energy sound and psychedelic light show, and they will be joined at Grey Fox by special guest fiddler-shredder Coleman Smith (Rapidgrass, David Lawrence & The Spoonful, The Bluegrass Journeymen). Join their “Kinfolk” and don’t miss Yonder when they rock the hill.
YMSB is “a group that cheerfully explores the outer boundaries of their music.”
YMSB retains “their ability to pay tribute to the trademarks that have always been central to roots music even as their supercharged sound and improvisational bravado made them heroes on the progressive bluegrass and jamgrass scenes. This may seem like a contradiction, but it sure doesn’t sound like one.”