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Grant Farm Band & Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

Applegate Lodge
Applegate, OR

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Boulder, Colorado-based Cosmic Americana band Grant Farm has entertained a growing fan base on the nations club and festival scene since its founding in 2009 by vocalist and National Flatpicking Guitar ChampionTyler Grant.
Built on the fundamentals of love, family, and music, the band is a sure bet for fans of high-energy, authentic artists as diverse as Sturgill Simpson, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Phish. Comprised of zany, creative and highly musical comrades, Grant Farm members includeGrant(aka The Champ),Adrian Ace Engfer(bass and vocals),Sean Magic Macaulay(drums) andKevin Money McHugh(keyboards and vocals).

Daniel Mescher of Colorado Public Radio dubbed Grant Farm some of the ablest musicians not only in the state of Colorado, but in the nation. Members prior experience includes playing with groups like The Emmitt-Nershi Band,Donovan Frankenreiter and Hot Soup. Collectively, they had also shared stages with notable artists Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Tim OBrien, Tony Rice, Keller Williams, Jon Oates and the like and with notable groups The String Cheese Incident, Greensky Bluegrass, Yonder Mountain String Band and The Infamous Stringdusters.
The bands latest release,Kiss the Ground(Summer 2016), represents its first full-length concept album and its third album of original music. Speaking to the struggles we all face as working people,Kiss the Groundsends a positive message while acknowledging real hardship in a society that expects far too much. We think of this as our ode to the working people, saysGrant, whose song, Get in Line, discusses the high price we pay for things we want in life.Kiss the Groundexplores real and mythological connections to the human struggle and pays homage to the "Working Class Hero," an archetype famously described by John Lennon.
Previous Grant Farm albums include a 2012 self-titled debut and a 2014 follow up,Plowin' Time, which reached #2 on JamBand Radio Charts and charted on Americana Radio. In 2014, the band also released theMeeting on the Mountain EP, an inspired collaboration with the group Fruition.
The band has also created the acclaimedMeeting on the Mountain LIVE, a collaborative, live webcast concert experience featuring Grant Farm as the house band and Tyler Grant as host. To date, episodes have featured Dave Bruzza of Greensky Bluegrass, Bill Nershi of String Cheese Incident, Todd Sheaffer of Railroad Earth, The Dead Winter Carpenters and other guests.
Like a traveling Gypsy family, Grant Farm enjoys their life of touring, writing and adventuring together as they share their music up and down the North American roots music line.

In 2010, the five Wisconsinites that make up Horseshoes & Hand Grenades found themselves in a living room in the college town of Stevens Point, WI, holding acoustic instruments and enjoying a hodgepodge of fermented beverages. Music and revelry ensued that evening and, while many of the party guests eventually bid their goodbye well into the morning hours, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades wasnt ready to let the get-together fade. Many years later, the music still hasnt stopped and the party is still going strong, from the mountain west to the river towns of the Midwest that the quintet calls home, and all across America.

While strongly rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music, the band produces a sound that draws on the vaults of music collectively and individually enjoyed throughout the course of their lives thus far. The music doesnt lend itself well to categories or boundaries. One could possibly be formed, but the boys seem to generally prefer fishing a river, or enjoying the company of friends and barley beers.

With their music well-defined or not, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades has begun to form a place in the American music scene, gaining recognition on both a regional and national scale. The band took 3rd place at the Telluride Bluegrass Festivals Band Competition in 2012 and has since shared the stage with Trampled By Turtles, The Travelin McCourys, Railroad Earth, Merle Haggard, The Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, Marty Stuart, and many more. The groups third full-length Middle Western was released in March of 2015 and another record is expected in 2017. Being mostly inspired by rivers, valleys, good friends, and good drink, this five-piece is as sturdy as any Midwest riverbed and will make your toes tap from sundown to sunrise.

Location

Applegate Lodge
15100 Highway 238
Applegate, OR 97530
United States

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