Railroad Earth Rolls Into the Mahaiwe

Saturday, May 9 | Great Barrington, MA | 8pm

Railroad Earth plays the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on May 9. The New Jersey band formed in 2001 and has spent the past twenty-five years building a devoted following on the strength of their live shows.

Their music combines progressive bluegrass, folk, rock, country, jazz, and Celtic influences, and they're recognized as carrying on the tradition of improvisational, genre-spanning music laid forth by the Grateful Dead. They introduced their sound on 2001's The Black Bear Sessions, have sold out Red Rocks multiple times, and launched two longstanding annual festivals. In 2019 the John Denver Estate tapped them to set previously unrecorded Denver lyrics to music, resulting in the vinyl EP Railroad Earth: The John Denver Letters. Their most recent studio album, All For The Song, was written partly in the wake of the 2018 death of founding multi-instrumentalist Andy Goessling.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle St., Great Barrington, MA. Tickets $39–$64 at mahaiwe.org. $15 for ages 30 and under at the box office.