Announces 4-Day NYE Run @
Boulder Theater
December 31, 2014 – January 3, 2015
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO —
Thursday, September 25, 2014 — New Year’s Eve in Boulder, CO has become a
tradition for Yonder Mountain String Band. Come ring in the New Year at
the Boulder Theater for a 4-night run with plenty of foot stompin’ and hand
clappin’ as Yonder burns it down with special guest violinist Allie Kral
and mandolin player Jake Jolliff; additional special guests will be
announced in the coming weeks. This year, YMSB kicks off the run on Wednesday,
December 31, 2014. On New Year’s Day, the venue will roll out some mighty fine
Bloody Marys and other libations to help fans start the year off right as YMSB
keeps the party going through Saturday, January 3, 2015. Pre-sale tickets are
now available via YMSB’s Tour Page with the general
on-sale starting this Friday, September 26, 2014 via the Boulder Theater box office
and online. Leading up to the NYE run, YMSB will be on the road for their
Fall Tour 2014 with headlining stops at the Wide Open Bluegrass Festival
(Oct. 4: Raleigh, NC), Mulberry Mt. Harvest Festival (Oct. 16 – 18:
Ozark, AR), and select venues in the South, East Coast, and Midwest. For some
fun in the sun this December 11 – 15, don’t miss YMSB’s Strings & Sol
happening in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. YMSB interviews and hi-res photos are
available upon request.
Bluegrass is a music steeped in tradition, but
over the past decade and a half — much of it spent on the road — Yonder
Mountain String Band has spearheaded a renegade movement to rewrite the
definition of the genre. Alongside other neo-bluegrass friends such as
Leftover Salmon, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, The Travelin’
McCourys, and Railroad Earth, YMSB has thoroughly revitalized and
contemporized bluegrass and introduced it to many thousands of new fans.
Rolling Stone said that YMSB “liberates bluegrass’ hot-shit
riffing and blue-sky harmonies from its hidebound formalism,” while
Paste Magazine wrote, “The Yonder Mountain boys have found a
formula that works: take rootsy bluegrass influences, add in some rock ‘n’ roll,
and seek out an adventurous audience.”
Yonder Mountain String Band is
comprised of Adam Aijala (guitar, vocals), Dave Johnston (banjo,
vocals), Ben Kaufmann (bass, vocals), and select special guest artists
who will appear with the band throughout 2014. Two standout musicians regularly
performing live with YMSB are Jake Jolliff (mandolin, vocals) and
Allie Kral (fiddle, vocals). Jolliff is an award-winning mandolin player
(First Place, National Mandolin Championship 2012, Walnut Valley Festival), and
was a founding member of the disbanded Americana outfit, Joy Kills
Sorrow. Kral is well-known as the former fiddle player for Cornmeal
(2003 – 2013), and she’s worked alongside various notable artists including
moe., Railroad Earth, Warren Haynes, and others. For
confirmed line-up information, please see the tour dates listed
below.
With the band having one of the strongest touring bases in the
industry, fans and critics alike have been drawn to both their live shows and
singular studio albums. Reporting from the All Good Music Festival
(2009), journalist Jarrett Bellini from CNN Showbiz Tonight
notes, “The trophy for best musical set goes to Yonder Mountain String Band who,
as the sun began to set, left it all on the stage for an hour and a half. The
pickers from Colorado had the audience dancing and shaking, kicking up a joyful
storm of dust into the cool summer sky.”
YMSB has evolved into something
of a phenomenon on the concert and festival circuit. The band has sold out
Colorado’s famed Red Rocks several times, and played sold-out shows with
Grateful Dead and Furthur bassist Phil Lesh at his Terrapin
Crossroads venue in August 2012. They also host three singular music festivals
every year — Northwest String Summit (now in its 14th year and hosted by
YMSB every year), Harvest Music Festival (where they will host for the
fifth time in October 2014), and Strings & Sol (Yonder hosts for the
third year-in-a-row in Mexico in December 2014) — and have consecutively sold
out runs of shows at Telluride Bluegrass Festival year after year. Every
other year, YMSB also hosts Kinfolk Festival @ Planet Bluegrass. In all,
Yonder Mountain logs over 100 live dates per year.
Yonder has always
played music by its own design. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other
influences, they’ve come to pioneer a sound that they alone could only champion.
With a traditional lineup of instruments, they may appear to be a traditional
bluegrass band at first glance but they’ve taken the customary old-timey
instrumentation to new heights, transcending any single genre. Yonder has become
a regular performer at major music festivals like the iconic Telluride Bluegrass
Festival, Summer Camp, and DelFest as well as massive multi-stage events like
Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits Festival.
YMSB is currently working on a
new full-length studio recording; fans can expect a new album to be released in
early 2015.
For more information on Yonder Mountain String Band, please
visit www.yondermountain.com.
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND FALL & WINTER
2014 TOUR DATES
10/4 – Raleigh, NC – Wide Open Bluegrass*^
10/16 –
10/18 – Ozark, AR – Mulberry Mt. Harvest Festival*^#
10/23 – Augusta, GA –
Riverwalk Revival*^
10/24 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City Music Hall*
10/25 –
Athens, GA – Georgia Theater*
10/26 – Savannah, GA – Trustee Garden*
10/29
– Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom*^
10/30 – Chattanooga, TN – Track
29*^
10/31 – Roanoke, VA – Shaftman Performance Hall @ Jefferson
Center*^
11/1 – Winston-Salem, NC – Ziggy’s*^
11/5 – Milwaukee, WI –
Turner Hall Ballroom*^
11/6 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue*^
11/7 –
Chicago, IL – House of Blues*^
11/8 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues*^
11/12
– Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom*^
11/13 – Boston, MA – House of
Blues*^
11/14 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts*^
11/15 –
Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl*^
12/11 – 12/15 – Puerto Morelos, Mexico –
Strings & Sol*^
12/31 – 1/3 – Boulder, CO – Boulder
Theater*^
Special Guest Performers:*Jake Jolliff
(mandolin, vocals)
^Allie Kral (fiddle, vocals)
#Jerry
Douglas (dobro)