11.17 Friday (Bluegrass / Pink Floyd)
Nectar & The PBJ Present:
POOR MAN'S WHISKEY
performs "Darkside of the Moonshine"
plus Wizard of Oz costume contest!!
with special guests Head For The Hills
$15adv / $20dos
8pm doors
9pm show
21+
Nectar Lounge
412 N 36th St
BOOTH RESERVATIONS NOW AVAILABLE!
We are a majority standing-area venue with seating on our heated and covered patio as well as our newly remodeled mezzanine. All seating is first come first serve however, we do have eight booths available for reservations on our mezzanine. Booths 1-6 seat two to four people, booth 7 seats five and booth 8 seats six to eight.
All table reservations are now made at checkout.
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Booth reservations are sold on a first come first serve basis.
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Reserve multiple booths for larger parties and we will seat you together.
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See "Additional Items" on the bottom of checkout page for available booths. If you do not see “Additional Items” unfortunately all booths are SOLD OUT.
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We try our best to guarantee your reservation all night, though we ask you to arrive within 2 hours after doors open.
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We no longer reserve high top tables behind booths but we encourage people to arrive early to claim available space.
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We offer food service once doors officially open. See listing above for specific door time.
POOR MAN'S WHIKSEY
Poor Man's Whiskey performs “Dark Side of the Moonshine” (a bluegrass interpretation of the Pink Floyd classic)!
Join Northern California's jamgrass favorites for a set of originals followed by a special second set bluegrass interpretation of the classic Pink Floyd album “Dark Side of the Moonshine”. Dark Side of The Moonshine has become an international festival favorite for late night and special event shows. The audience is encouraged to join in with the band and the festivities dressed as their favorite “Wizard of Oz” characters as the movie is projected behind the performance.
Poor Man's Whiskey is an American band originating in the San Francisco Bay Area rooted around the songwriting talents of Josh Brough and Jason Beard (whom met in 1993 at the University of California, Santa Barbara). Poor Man's Whiskey's live show and sound is blend of high octane old time/bluegrass music (often done on traditional acoustic instruments of banjo, guitar, and mandolin) and a more psychedelic blues/jam rock style that call upon their earlier influences such as Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead. Poor Man's Whiskey seamlessly transitions between acoustic and electric styles with a carefully crafted commitment that revolves around well written songs and stories...while maintaining an exciting element of improvisation and the openness to let a song expand. Besides their seven original albums and high energy shows, Poor Man's Whiskey is also known for their special "interpretation sets". They gained international attention by their bluegrass rendition of "Dark Side of the Moonshine" (a bluegrass take on the classic Pink Floyd album), as well as successful interpretive sets of Paul Simon's "Graceland", The Allman Brothers Band, The Eagles, Old and In the Way, and Kate Wolf. These sets are are played in conjunction with an original set or a special festival late night party.
“These guys have no boundaries. You’re in the middle of a psychedelic Pink Floyd-like rock-n-roll song when someone picks up a banjo! Then they drop you into the middle of Paul Simon’s Graceland, make a quick trip across the Irish countryside and drag you through a bit of folk and bluegrass. They’re on the stage plugged in, off the stage unplugged amongst the crowd & everywhere in between. So much fun!”
POOR MAN'S WHISKEY IS:
Jason Beard- Guitar,Mandolin
Josh Brough -Vocals,Banjo, Keyboards,
Jeff Coleman- Keyboards
Mark Murphy-Bass
David Noble- Guitar, Vocals
George Smeltz - Drums, Vocals
HEAD FOR THE HILLS
Potions and Poisons is the fourth album of original music from Head for the Hills, the Colorado based post-modern bluegrass outfit of Adam Kinghorn, Joe Lessard, Matt Loewen and Sam Parks. There’s no reinvention of the wheel here--no computer programmed banjo rolls or digitally arpeggiated fiddle lines. Instead we find Head for the Hills at the peak of their powers of musical alchemy, building little worlds of sound from the detritus of bluegrass, jazz, hip hop, folk and soul. Potions and Poisons is a look at the darker side of love, lust, and life; an examination of our affinity for and aversion to the things that make us fragile but human. Recorded at home in Colorado with the band’s go-to engineer, Aaron Youngberg (Cahalen and Eli, Martha Scanlan, Grant Gordy and Ross Martin), the record features appearances from Bonnie Paine (Elephant Revival) on vocals and washboard, Erin Youngberg (Uncle Earl, FY5) on vocals, and a lush string section. Potions and Poisons is the most Head for the Hills record yet, and in the great tradition of bluegrass (and soul and folk and old time music), it delivers some bitter pills, but the ten new original songs are more than a survey of the human condition. This is reflective but buoyant music, restorative and full of vibrancy.
Head for the Hills prides itself on defying expectation, turning neophytes into converts and genre purists exploratory listeners. Remaining true to the roots of bluegrass while simultaneously looking to it’s future prospects, the band makes music that reaches into jazz, indie rock, hip hop, soul, world and folk to stitch together cutting edge songs that bridge the divide between past and future acoustic music. More than a decade in and after thousands of miles, hundreds of performances, a handful of independently released records, 4 times awarded Best Bluegrass in Colorado via Westword Magazine, and one new mandolin player--Head for the Hills is at their absolute peak, firing on all cylinders and winning the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere they go.
Head for the Hills have been bringing their music to audiences from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival to South by Southwest and a multitude of stages in between--including Summer Camp Music Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, RockyGrass, DelFest, Northwest String Summit, Blue Ox Music Festival FloydFest, Strawberry Music Festival and many more. The band has been featured on NPR Ideastream and eTown, co-released beers with Odell Brewing Company and Sanitas Brewing, charted on the CMJ Top 200 (Blue Ruin, 2013 and Head for the Hills, 2010), and was featured by CMT – Edge, who said; “Head for the Hills’ Blue Ruin effortlessly matches integrity against innovation.”
