Old Time Jam
The Granite Church 5 N. Main Street, Redding, CT, United StatesCalling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!
Calling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!
Join us for a monthly celebration of bluegrass music. House band at 8 PM with open jamming through the night. Come to listen, come to play, come to learn.
On the Trail is a modern acoustic band that explores everything from bluegrass to contemporary pop, from stunning instrumentals to beautiful traditional songs. A special collaboration between On the Trail and a classical string quartet will bring together the classical and bluegrass communities, featuring bluegrass, country, western swing, and American-inspired classical music. Doors open at 6:30 PM.
Kathleen Parks is a fiddler, singer, and songwriter who brings joyful and creative energy to the stage and studio. For the last 10 years, she has been heavily involved in touring and recording with her Americana/Jamgrass band Twisted Pine, where she sings, writes, and fiddles. On her upcoming solo album, her captivating songs lean more toward Pop, Folk, and classic Jazz, while her virtuosic fiddle blends and reimagines traditional and modern musical styles with boundless groove and playful improvisational spirit.
Calling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!
Join us for a monthly celebration of bluegrass music. House band at 8 PM with open jamming through the night. Come to listen, come to play, come to learn.
Fresh off a first-place win at the 2025 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast. With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice, Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something far beyond folk conventions, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).
Calling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!
Melding unparalleled virtuosity with an introspective sensibility, Nic Gareiss and Alexis Chartrand trace, with disarming spontaneity, their path across French Canadian, Appalachian, and Irish traditions. Propelled by melodies inherited from Québécois folklore, the duo explores, with palpable pleasure, the sharing of sounds and gestures, blurring the lines between music and dance, melody and movement.
Play folk music with your feet! Flatfooting is a solo form of improvised percussive dance originating in the Appalachian Mountains, with sonic and gestural connections to West African, Indigenous, and Western European dance. Using the toe, heel, and ball of the foot to strike and slide across the floor, flatfooting articulates the rhythms of old-time fiddle and banjo tunes. For movers of all experience and backgrounds.
Join Rock Hearts at The Granite for an intimate evening of live bluegrass music. Formed in 2013, Rock Hearts brings together five seasoned musicians from southern New England who love to sing and pick bluegrass and old country tunes, and seek out tunes from other genres to "Bluegrass-ify." Doors at 6:30 PM.
Calling all fiddles, banjos, and guitars! Come on out to play or sit back and listen to Appalachian music with us. All are welcome!