Tonight's Hillbilly Robot event features two of California's finest string bands; The Mountain Men and the Bay Area's newest bluegrass band, Riley Hill & Brand New Still.
HiLLBiLLY ROBOT: an Urban Americana Music Event returns for round three. The festival, we mean event, runs every weekend in February and features a variety of urban-flavored Americana; including classic country, outlaw country, vintage bluegrass, 50s rockabilly, western-swing, New Orleans jazz, and wild Americana. This year's event welcomes bands as far away as Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon, with lots of local favorites in the mix, including Belle Monroe & her Brewglass Boys 20 year anniversary show and JonEmery & The Dry County Drinkers CD release party. No matter what your listening pallet may be (city or country) we've got a little something for everyone. So break out your bestest overalls, spit-shine your boots, and head on down to Hillbilly Robot for some good old-fashioned downhome music.
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THE MOUNTAIN MEN (Mariposa, CA)
From the mean streets of Mariposa and the mountains of Yosemite come one of California's best bluegrass/old-time supergroups.
https://www.facebook.com/mt.menstringband/
RILEY HILL & BRAND NEW STILL (Bay Area)
Riley Hill has been performing bluegrass music on the West Coast since 2010. After a few years of playing and recording with his band The Cherry Pickers he decided to record his own album "Hard Times on Riley Hill" and put together a band of pickers experienced in the West Coast brand of traditional bluegrass and call it "Brand New Still".
The band includes David Thom (David Thom Band, Grateful Bluegrass Boys) on mandolin and tenor vocals, Ryan Breen (Windy Hill) on banjo and baritone vocals and the great Kyle McCabe (Windy Hill) on bass.
https://soundcloud.com/rhill-2
Festival info: http://shelbyashpresents.net/