With Greensky Bluegrass, it isn’t just the name that’s the inverse of what’s expected, it’s the musical roots, too. Case in point: Bluegrass isn’t what Paul Hoffman, one of the two main songwriters in the bluegrass group, generally dials up when he wants to listen to music for fun. “I don’t listen to very much […]
Greensky Bluegrass
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Oh, the Places You Will Go!
Summer concerts near and far
This year’s Summer Concert Guide is the Source’s compass for the upcoming months of music in the Pacific Northwest. We take you north, east, west and south for festivals, one-off shows and summer-long series that showcase nationally touring acts, underground favorites, and weekends so stuffed with pure musical summer joy that you’ll contemplate trading your […]
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Inverted Color Scheme
Greensky Bluegrass play bass ackwards grassblue…wait
When Greensky Bluegrass played at the Old St. Francis School in 2006, a security guard got punched in the face outside of the packed Father Luke’s Room. “It was a benchmark in our career,” recalled singer and mandolin player Paul Hoffman. While Greensky’s gigs are regularly rowdy with hippie-dancing, stoner-grass fans, there’s typically very little […]