Molly Tuttle’s Grammy-winning bluegrass band Golden Freeway is being disbanded, and she or he is re-emerging with an all-girl band that’s prone to have a louder sound. She revealed this titanic change on social media on Tuesday (5-13). Tuttle’s future dates will all characteristic the brand new lineup, save for a headlining look at Rockygrass in Colorado with the Golden Freeway lineup in late July.
“Excited for a brand new chapter… Can’t wait to get out on the street this summer season with an all new unimaginable band,” Tuttle mentioned in a press release. “We now have been in rehearsals all week and I can promise you received’t wish to miss this!”
After commencing her solo profession in earnest by signing to Compass Information in 2017 and releasing extra folk-oriented albums, the world-class flatpicker the native California fashioned the Golden Freeway bluegrass band in 2021, calling it her “dream” band. It included Shelby Means on bass, Kyle Tuttle on banjo, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes on fiddle, and Dominick Leslie on mandolin, all of whom have been famous musicians on the time.
The collaboration launched their debut album Crooked Tree in April of 2022, and ended up incomes them the Grammy Award for Finest Bluegrass Album. It additionally secured Tuttle a nomination for the all-genre Finest New Artist. Molly Tuttle and Golden Freeway’s 2023 album Metropolis of Gold additionally would go on to win the Finest Bluegrass Album Grammy, and put Tuttle on the prime of the style with the likes of frequent collaborator Billy Strings.
Now Molly Tuttle’s backing band will encompass drummer Megan Jane, bassist Vanessa McGowan, guitarist/mandolin participant Mary “Mair” Mulroney, and multi-instrumentalist Ellen Angelico. All of them are Nashville-based session and stay musicians who’re identified and revered all through city, with Mair also referred to as a solo artist and singer/songwriter.
The brand new Molly Tuttle lineup will play their first present collectively on the Mercury Lounge in New York Metropolis on June twenty fourth.
As for Golden Freeway, a number of members have already been pursuing solo careers. Fiddle participant Bronwyn Keith-Hynes has been energetic as a solo artist in bluegrass, together with being nominated for a Grammy Award for her 2024 album I Constructed A World. Shelby Means additionally only in the near past introduced her debut self-titled album out Could thirtieth, with a number of singles out now. Banjoist Kyle Tuttle launched his newest album Labor of Lust in 2024.
“Wishing my Golden Freeway bandmates all of the success in every of their thrilling new adventures,” Tuttle mentioned.
That is definitely a big growth within the bluegrass world, with many questioning if the brand new band lineup will take Molly Tuttle out of it the place Molly is taken into account one of many style’s main women and guitarists, racking up a number of Guitar Participant of the Yr awards from the Worldwide Bluegrass Music Affiliation (IBMA).
