Old Baby Mackerel - Bluegrass at The Pit

Presented by: Old Baby Mackerel

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0	NOTTINGHAM: The Pit at Newstead
P	Thursday 19th September, 2024
N	7:30pm

Event information

In the last four years Old Baby Mackerel have been featured on 6Music with Cerys Matthews, have played Glastonbury Festival festival twice, sold out venues across the UK such as Green Note in London, The Acorn in Penzance and Seaford Little Theatre in Sussex and are now coming to The Pit!
They play high-energy, foot-stomping Bluegrass featuring some of the UK’s best Bluegrass musicians gathered around a single condenser microphone in the true Bluegrass style. The sounds of banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and double bass blend lightning-fast rhythm, virtuosic solos and evocative harmonies to get knees bouncing and elbows swinging. Be prepared to be transported back in time to the early 20th century and across the Atlantic to North America where songs dramatised the small town fascination with locomotion, religion and the veneration of whisky and bootleg liquor.

They have played headline slots at Purbeck (2022) and Priddy (2023) folk festivals, the Northern Irish, Cornish, Welsh, East Anglian and Swiss Bluegrass festivals, at venues and festivals all over the UK and Ireland as well as Belgium, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and Thailand.