No Name String Band

The No Name String Band is excited to announce Anytime, their second (brand-new) full album and first with the current, 7-member configuration. Recorded at the historic Stoughton Opera House, Anytime introduces 6 new original tunes written in NNSB's characteristic new time/neo-traditional style, as well as 11 tracks of traditional fiddle tunes played with their own unique spin.

In addition, a banjo, fiddle and guitar side-project CD, Tunesdays with More Ed Haley, is also now available. Tunesdays takes a more direct approach, and sticks to traditional, fiddle-led dance tunes.

The No Name String Band will be hosting a CD release party with a live performance at Arts & Literature Laboratory on Thursday, June 15, 2017. The free performance begins at 8:00pm, followed by a meet and greet, and the opportunity to purchase the new CDs. The show will feature mostly original material, with some 3-piece traditional selections from Tunesdays.

No Name String Band

The No Name String Band music collective distills the heart of old time fiddle music, jazz/funk improvisation, latin rhythms – with a dram of classical discipline – into their uniquely new time sound. The NNSB spins their own groove on light-footed and hard-driving barn dance tunes of the American south, while slowing down to explore more introspective original compositions.

As a collective, the NNSB shows the flexibility to play true to tradition, especially in smaller configurations, or get funky as more pieces are added to the puzzle. A wider picture emerges when the full compliment of one or two fiddles, banjos, and guitars, along with upright and percussion are on hand. While they only rarely take an instrumental lead in the usual sense, the focus flows between bandmates like a chamber ensemble, at times highlighting the syncopated interplay of banjos, soaring fiddle harmonies or sly guitar runs, other times focusing on the hip shaking grooves carved out by the... Read More

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