We are super excited about our debut at the world famous Great American Music Hall on Saturday, May 5! Joining us will be Faux Renwah, Melody Walker, and The Trespassers.

We will be playing earlier that day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park as part of the Access For Adventure event in the earlier afternoon. See the previous post for details.

Cinco de Mayo at the Great American Music Hall is going to be great. We hope to see our Bay Area fans there for a fun night! Tickets are available for sale here.

Stay tuned for further updates about our summer tour — we can’t wait to get this summer rolling!

~WH

Hello everyone,

Thanks for checking in on the site. We have a great gig coming up on May 5 that we are excited to tell you about. It’s part of an afternoon event in Golden Gate Park sponsored by the non-profit Support for Families With Children With Disabilities.

We will be performing at the Bandshell in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from 2 to 3 p.m after our friends Jeanie and Chuck Poling perform. For more information, click here.

Also, later that night we will be debuting at the famous Great American Music Hall in San Francisco with our friends the Trespassers. Click here to RSVP to the Facebook event!

Again, thanks for checking in on our site, and stay tuned for more info as we gear up for our busiest summer yet!!!

~The WH Boys

Ryan and Earl Scruggs in September, 2010

As many of you have heard, Earl Scruggs passed away this week. He died on March 28, 2012 at 88 years old.

Earl took the banjo to a new level with his three-finger style. He has had a huge impact on bluegrass music and beyond, and we take pride in carrying on his legacy.

Our banjo player Ryan Breen will be on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, celebrating Mr. Scruggs’ life and music along with banjo players Bill Evans, Larry Cohea, Avram Siegel, and host Peter Thompson.

You can listen live here.

Thanks Earl Scruggs!

Hey folks, we will be on the radio tonight and tomorrow night promoting our annual Blue Grass and Green Beer St. Paddy’s Day at the Club Fox in Redwood City next Saturday.

Tonight we are on Peter Thompson’s Bluegrass Signal at KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday on Stanford’s KZSU 90.1 FM with Sarah Bellum at 8:00 p.m..

Hope you can tune in!

Hello friends,

We have some great shows lined up in March!

On the 8th, we will be back at Cafe Du Nord with Erica Sunshine Lee and Chi McClean for her CD release party. Erica is a Nashville-based singer songwriter and she is releasing her 4th studio album, “I’M Still Me”. Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door. Come on down!

Then in the middle of the month we are playing our annual St. Patricks Day Bluegrass Throwdown at the Club Fox in Redwood City. We are going to have a great celebration with our good friends Snap Jackson and the Knock on Wood Players. Can’t wait to see what happens!

Your Friends,

WINDY HILL

Howdy folks hope everyone is enjoying their mild Winter…

Wanted to give you an update about our debut show at the Freight & Salvage Coffee Shop this February 19, supporting our good friend David Thom‘s new CD release That Old Familiar. We’ll be opening for Uncle DT before he plays a lot of the songs from his new release, produced by Laurie Lewis – you can read all about it here.

We hope you can make it to support local bluegrass music at the Freight! Details: Show at 8 p.m., tickets $20.00 advance, $22.50 at door.

Also, we have a buch of shows coming up, starting with a radio appearance Monday, February 13 on 91.5 FM KKUP. Hopefully see you soon!

We are excited to announce that this Thursday, January 26, we will be playing at Don Quixote’s in Felton with the Dead Winter Carpenters. This is our first show of hopefully what will be a long relationship with both the Dead Winter Carpenters and Don Quixote’s.  Doors are at 8 p.m., tickets $7 in advance and $10 at the door. We hope to see you there!

We are proud to announce that in our second year of association with the Northern California Bluegrass Society, we have been nominated for the Bluegrass Band of the Year award. We are really proud to receive this nomination, and thanks to all of our fans for their continued support. For information about the Awards Ceremony, at which we will be performing at 11 a.m. this Saturday, January 28 in Redwood City, visit the NCBS’ website.

Here is the latest review of our debut album Let’s Go to the Fair.  Thanks very much to Devon Leger for the kind review. Here’s what Devon had to say about our album:

“I’m always on the look out for the new bluegrass music that harkens back to the classic days of the genre’s formation. The sound that Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, and Flatt & Scruggs birthed in the American South in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I’m not looking for a stale recreation, but that kind of red-hot, fire-in-the-belly picking and keening harmonies that made the old classics so perfect.

Impossibly young bluegrass band Windy Hill have this in spades on their new album, Let’s Go to the Fair. Their music fairly crackles with hot picking and burning fiddling, and their harmonies are deadly accurate. Somehow they manage to make the music sound entirely new without compromising the smallest smidgeon of respect for the true tradition. This isn’t bluegrass handled with delicacy, it’s a blazing brand of bluegrass pulled forth from the fire with cool iron tongs.”

Let’s Go to the Fair is available here.

Hello friends and neighbors,

The new year is upon us and all we can think about is pickin. This year we are excited to announce we are coming out with a new LIVE album. Tracks from the Hill Side -Volume:1 will be available soon, so stay tuned! We are lining up our summer tour and getting ready for festival season.It’s not all that far away. We want to thank everyone of you who came out and supported us in 2011. It was a big year for us and we accomplished a lot. 2012 is going to be a year to remember. We are starting off the new year at Moe’s alley on January, 12 with the North Pacific String Band. The show is going to be a fun one. Happy new year and Fire It Up!