The best time of the year; The Bridge's annual Thanksgiving eve Shows!

Everyone prepares for the holiday in different ways; we travel, we cook, we decorate, we prepare to avoid discussing politics at the dinner table.  For some in Baltimore there is another tradition we prepare for that signifies the start of the holiday season, The Bridge's annual Thanksgiving eve shows.  The band was born on Thanksgiving even in 2001, and even though the band called it quits as a full time band a few years ago, they still get together every Thanksgiving eve to remind everyone of their greatness.

Announcing My New Book: ‘Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!’ Due Out Feb 2019

Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon. Since their earliest days as a forward thinking, progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever evolving sound, to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene, to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly, unique style.

Bluegrass in Baltimore release show live clips

As I prepare for the announcement of my newest book, Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!, I wanted to take a moment and share some of the highlights of the release show for my previous book, Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & its Legacy.  I was lucky enough to have some of Baltimore's best musicians, Caleb Stine, Cris Jacobs, Patrick McAvinue, Mike Munford, and Bluestone, join me for a night of amazing music at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore to celebrate the release of the book.

You can check out all their performances below, as well as the show ending group jam that featured  an impromptu 45-minute jam session.