John Reischman and The Jaybirds

Name: John Reischman and The Jaybirds
Start: 2025-02-01T20:00:00-08:00
Location: St. James Community Square

Schedule

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

St. James Community Square | Vancouver, BC

Presented with the Pacific Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Society.
***The band will be performing John Reischman's Bluegrass Concerto, commissioned early last year. This is a Vancouver debut! Patrick M’Gonigle will join the usual lineup of the group on second mandolin and fiddle for the piece.
Reischman was one of three artists - including Bela Fleck and Cynthia Sayer - commissioned by the FreshGrass Festival Foundation to write a concerto played at the 2024 FreshGrass Festival in North Adams, MA. in Sept.
“This was quite an honour - both inspiring, and a little stressful, but ultimately very exciting." Reischman explains.***
Like the powerful mandolinist and composer at its helm, John Reischman and the Jaybirds fashion a stylish take on bluegrass that seamlessly blends original songs and instrumentals with Appalachian old-time music for a truly unique band sound. Now in their 20th year, with seven acclaimed albums and two Juno nominations, the Jaybirds are simultaneously innovative and unadorned, sophisticated and stripped-down, happily old-fashioned and 21st-century contemporary.
The Jaybirds are Los Angeles, CA-based guitarist Patrick Sauber, Chilliwack, BC-based Trisha Gagnon (vocals/ bass), Nanaimo, BC-based Nick Hornbuckle (five-string banjo) and Spokane, WA-based fiddler Greg Spatz.
https://thejaybirds.com/
Live & streamed. Doors 7pm/ Show 8pm
https://www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev25020120