Grass It Up November 9th in Black Forest

Its been a while since we had this outstanding local bluegrass group grace the Black Rose Stage. At Black Rose we had a little scheduling mix up but one good thing came out of it...we get to have Grass It Up back on our stage!

Grass It Up

November 9, 2012 at 8 p.m. at the Black Forest Community Center

Tickets: $7.00 general admission, $4.00 for BRAS members, $5.00 for students, kids under 12 are free! For more info go to http://www.blackroseacoustic.org

 

Just as the elements of a song – notes, words, rhythms – take form only when combined into lyrics and melody, so too the members of a band coalesce when they take to the stage or the recording studio. Grass It Up has become famous for their live performances, whether at their regular gigs – pickin’ on the patio of the Front Range Barbeque and playing at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs – or at special events such as the Meadow Grass Bluegrass Festival, Keystone Bluegrass and Brews, headlining the Happy Ass Ranch Bluegrass Festival, The Indy Music Awards or competing in band contests at Telluride Bluegrass and Rocky Grass. Grass It Up started in Alabama with David Jeffrey, Shannon Carr and Jim Marsh where they garnered a substantial following before relocating to Colorado in 2004.

They organized and performed at Lavapalooza at Lago Arenal, Costa Rica in 2007 and 2008.  Grapes and Grass in Sonoma, CA 2009 and 2011. They welcome Colorado based musicians such as members of the world famous Flying W Wranglers, Bruce Hayes, Alex Johnstone (Spring Creek) and Keith Reed (Open Road) to join them on stage, and they’ve shared gigs with bands including the Oak Ridge Boys, Spring Creek, the Packway Handle Band, Greensky Bluegrass, Crooked Still, Drew Emmitt Band, Hazel Miller, New Monsoon, The Haunted Windchimes, El Toro, Acme Bluegrass, White Water Ramble, Oakhurst, Sons and Brothers, Elephant Revival, Head For the Hills, Peter Rowan, and Creating a New Sense.

Grass It Up has received positive reviews from Bill Forman of the Colorado Springs Independent and Cathleen Norman of Pow’r Pickin’ Magazine. Grass It Up is the most popular bluegrass band in El Paso County, garnering consistently substantial audiences and the acclaim of the “best of” surveys at both the daily Colorado Springs Gazette and the weekly Independent.