Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra
Schedule
Sun Jul 19 2026 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
24 W Temple Ave, Sellersville, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 18960 | Sellersville, PA
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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra$25, $39.50
Doors: Jul 19, 2026 7:30 PM
Livestream Available
Norway may seem an unlikely home for bluegrass, but Oslo’s Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra has become one of the genre’s most exciting new international voices. Inspired by the Belgian film Broken Circle Breakdown, the group formed when its founders convinced a friend to buy a double bass for a band that didn’t yet exist. Once assembled, the eight‑piece lineup—featuring vocals, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, banjo, dobro, accordion, and bass—began by learning songs from the film while drawing on influences like Watchhouse, Tim O’Brien, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, and Alison Krauss & Union Station.
Their breakthrough came with a YouTube recording of “Wayfaring Stranger,” which quickly amassed hundreds of thousands of views and helped their channel grow past seven million plays and 30,000 subscribers. Their debut album Migrants, released in March, features ten originals and two covers and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart—an extraordinary feat for a new Norwegian band. Critics praised the album as one of the year’s best, noting its blend of bluegrass, grassicana, folk‑rock, and Scandinavian and Celtic influences.
The band has toured extensively in Norway and Ireland and was slated to perform as the house band at Dollywood before the pandemic halted plans. They later appeared in the digital IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards and Folk Unlocked. Upcoming releases include live recordings with expanded instrumentation. Known for mixing driving, joyful energy with tenderness and melancholia, the band says audiences can “laugh, dance, and cry” at their shows.
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