WhiteWater Ramble, Whiskey Tango Teamup For NYE Show In Fort Collins

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WHITEWATER RAMBLE & WHISKEY TANGO

Wednesday, December 31st
Hodi’s Half Note
Tickets: $10
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Described as High-Octane Rocky Mountain DanceGrass, Whitewater Ramble (WWR) uses a simple recipe to craft its sound: start with bluegrass instrumentation, add drums, and finish with a boundary-less approach to grassing-up everything from disco house grooves to roots to Americana. Whitewater Ramble is now on tour behind their second studio release Roots & Groove. The album showcases WWR’s growth as songwriters and musicians. Produced by Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth, the album features an array of special guests such as Andy Hall on dobro (Infamous Stringdusters), Andy Thorn on banjo (Leftover Salmon), Grammy Award winner John Macy on pedal steel and Bill McKay on piano.

Since their inception in 2009 Whiskey Tango has been compelling audiences to move with their high-energy brand of Jamgrass.  But Jamgrass only breaks the surface when it comes to describing the original music that Whiskey Tango creates and the eclectic mix of artists they pay tribute to.  This diversity stems from the fact that each member has a different musical background; evident in their debut album Groggy Mountain Mornings, which cycles through a multitude of genres from Jamgrass and Country to Psychedelic and Jazz to straight up Rock & Roll and Funk.  This deep understanding of music and its history has won the group Best Jam/Improv Band in Denver four years in a row.  The band’s annual festival, Black Mountain Family Reunion, prompted Relix magazine to feature the single “Annalisa” on their international December 2012 CD sampler.  It is in Whiskey Tango’s exuberant live shows, however, that the spirit of this fresh, original band can really be felt.

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Nate Todd was born on the central plains of Nebraska, but grew up on the high plains of the Texas panhandle. With not much to do in either place, music was his constant companion. His parents dubbed the first two albums he ever owned onto a tape for him. Side A was Bert and Ernie’s Sing Along. Side B was Sgt. Peppers. His lifelong love affair with music started early as he practically grew up in a Rock & Roll band, with his father and uncle often taking him out on the road or into the studio with them. Nate began performing live at sixteen and hasn’t looked back, having played in numerous bands from L.A. to Austin. At the age of twenty he was bitten by the writing bug, and upon moving to Denver decided to pursue a degree from Metropolitan State University where he recently graduated with a B.A. in English and a minor in Cinema Studies.

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