Sunday May 22, 2022
8:00pm
Eddie Owen Presents: Sideline Bluegrass Band
“Sideline has emerged as one of the best bands on the circuit…they grab every audience member and make them feel like the music is just for them.”
– Steve Martin
“The band’s tight mix of power and dynamics combined with impressive flatpicking from start to finish”
– Broadway Word
In just under a decade Sideline has achieved a list of musical accolades. The song “Thunder Dan” not only held the #1 spot on the charts for multiple weeks, as well as the #1 song for the entire year 2018, it also won the 2019 Song of the Year award with the International Bluegrass Music Association. Sideline has had many chart-active/chart-topping hits, including, “Just A Guy In A Bar”, “I’ll Always Be A Gypsy”, and “Jesse’s Barn” from the group’s latest album release “Ups, Downs and No Name Towns”. Both in title and in musical performance, this album reflects the band’s obstacle-ridden journey, while also acknowledging the recent struggle of the music industry — and especially its professional touring musicians — to cope with a months-long, pandemic-driven shutdown. The song “Old Guitar Case” (lyrical inspiration for the album title) delivers a depiction of the details of a road musician’s life, revealing profound truths about journeys of hardship and triumphs, victories and defeats — all undertaken with the aim of reaching new heights as the music and the community it builds continue to grow.
Bluegrass & Roots Music,
Acoustic Blues,
Other Folk/Traditional