Mark on bluegrass guitar,and Nate on bass, are both Berklee trained. Mark plays with Hoot and Holler and Nate with Mile Twelve. Strong singers and songwriters, this is their first tour as a duo. Opening is the New Haven based duo Kat Wallace and David Sasso.
For this season's night of Bluegrass, the Linden Tree Coffeehouse welcomes back for the third time, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. With chops so hot, the group was named IBMA’s 2016 Instrumental Group of the Year for the second time, with a third nomination in 2017. Their critically acclaimed album Cold Spell earned a 2015 GRAMMY nomination for Best Bluegrass Album of the Year, yet the accolades don’t end there. Solivan, with banjoist Mike Munford, 2013 IBMA Banjo Player of the Year, award-winning guitarist Chris Luquette and bassist Jeremy Middleton, simmer a progressive bluegrass stew of infinite instrumental, vocal and songwriting skills soon to be featured once again on their new album If You Can't Stand the Heat slated to drop January 25th, 2019.