Bluegrass Tuesdays began in Central Square in Cambridge in September of 1993 and has since grown to host regional and national artists on stage and serve as a weekly gathering place for the local bluegrass community. For 27 years, Tuesday Night Bluegrass at The Cantab Lounge was hosted by Geoff Bartley, about whom reviewer Nate Dow wrote, “If Massachusetts were ever to appoint a Folk Laureate, the honor would have to go to the one and only Geoff Bartley." Geoff welcomed nationally-known bluegrass artists to the stage such as Dale Ann Bradley, Tony Trischka, Darol Anger, David Grier, Missy Raines, Jim Hurst, Chris Jones, Molly Tuttle, and the late James King. Bluegrass Tuesdays have also been a place where many bluegrass musicians have met and “cut their teeth”, including members of The Infamous Stringdusters, Crooked Still, Della Mae, The Gibson Brothers, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, The Po' Ramblin' Boys, Mile Twelve, and Joy Kills Sorrow. Bluegrass Tuesdays are now hosted by Tony Watt and held at chef Chris Parsons' restaurant Lily P's Fried Chicken & Oysters in Kendall Square in Cambridge.
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PREVIOUS SHOWS:

• 3/26/24 – Kathleen Parks, Emily Baker & The Stay at Home Dads (Andy Cambria & Moriah Ozberkmen opened)
• 3/19/24 – Nash Reilly & Fiends played The Bluegrass Album, Volume 3: California Connection (Stoneface Mountain opened)
• 3/12/24 – Former IBMA Momentum Band of the Year: Liam Purcell and Cane Mill Road (Lucy Pyle & Friends opened)
• 3/5/24 – Cousin Bobby (The Talking Hearts opened)
• 2/27/24 – The Hazel Project (JB & His Friends opened)
• 2/20/24 – 7-Time IBMA Award Winners: Special Consensus (The Reunion Band opened)
• 2/13/24 – Dan Bui & The Brighton House Album Band (Gretchen Bowder & Friends opened)
• 2/6/24 – Berklee's Big Bash at Bluegrass Tuesdays (featuring ensembles taught by Greg Liszt, Laura Orshaw, and Tony Watt)
• 1/30/24 – The Mudsills (Green Heron opened)
• 1/23/24 – Low Lily (Cecily Mills & Isaiah Gardham opened)
• 1/16/24 – Andy Cambria & The Cambrian Explosion (The Ruth & Ben String Band opened)
• 1/9/24 – Audrey Mae (Landline Revival featuring Lindsay Straw opened)
• 1/2/24 – The Hosmer Mountain Boys with Special Guest Silas Powell (Stoneface Mountain opened)
• 12/26/23 – Nikolai Margulis & Friends (The Almost Grown-Ups opened)
  
• 12/19/23 – True Life Bluegrass (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• 12/12/23 – The Spring Hill Rounders (Berklee's two new Women and Non-Binary People in Roots ensembles taught by Laura Orshaw opened at 7 pm, and there was a special 6 pm performance by Berklee's Country Music Ensemble taught by Farayi Malek)
  
• 12/5/23 – Eugene Tyler Band (BB Bowness & Friends opened)
  
• 11/28/23 – Berklee's Big Bash at Bluegrass Tuesdays (with four new ensembles taught by Greg Liszt, Joe K. Walsh, and Tony Watt)
  
• 11/21/23 – The Wabash Cannibals (Cecily Mills & Friends opened)
  
• 11/14/23 – The Ethan Setiawan Band (The Water Street Wranglers opened)
  
• 11/7/23 – Jackson Emmer (The Wicked Pickers opened)
  
• 10/31/23 – BooGrass Tuesdays Halloween Spooktacular & Costume Contest featuring Gabe Hirshfeld, Grant Flick, Ghouls & Goblins (The BOO Grown-Ups opened)
  
• 10/24/23 – The Reunion Band (The Brighton House Boys opened)
  
• 10/17/23 – BB Bowness & Goodtime Revival (The Ruth & Ben String Band opened)
  
• 10/10/23 – Greg Liszt & Friends (G Rockwell's Band opened)
  
• 10/3/23 – Laura Orshaw & Friends
  
• 9/26/23 – Noah G. Fowler & Folk (Hollow Turtle opened)
  
• ​9/19/23 – Bluegrass Tuesdays 30th Anniversary Celebration!!!
  
• 9/12/23 – 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Band Contest Winners: Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light (Himalayan Highway opened)
  
• 9/5/23 – Micah Nicol & All of His Roommates (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• 8/29/23 – Reigning IBMA New Artist of the Year: Rick Faris & Friends (Dumpster Debbie opened)
  
• 8/22/23 – Bluegrass Album Band alumnus: Mark Schatz & Bryan McDowell (The Cook County Mountain Boys opened)
  
• 8/15/23 – From the Ozark Mountains of Missouri: Lindley Creek (played a special dual-set show)
  
• Monday, 8/14/23 – IBMA New Artist of the Year Nominees: East Nash Grass (played a "Secret Show")
  
• 8/8/23 – 10-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year: Missy Raines & Allegheny (Landline Revival featuring Lindsay Straw opened)
  
• 8/1/23 – The New Grown-Ups CD Release Party (Max Wareham & Critical Twang (a Five* Banjo Band) opened)
  
• 7/25/23 – The Ethan Robbins Bluegrass Hour (Deviant Folk opened)
  
• 7/18/23 – All the way from the hills of Eastern Kentucky: The Kevin Prater Band (Cecily Mills & Isaiah Gardham opened), and we had our inaugural "Secret Third Set" featuring  The Tray Wellington Band  from North Carolina!!!
  
• 7/11/23 – Evan Murphy & Friends (John Wayne's Dream opened)
  
• 6/27/23 – Eugene Tyler Band (The Ruth & Ben String Band opened)
  
• 6/20/23 – True Life Bluegrass (Stoneface Mountain opened)
  
• 6/13/23 – The Reunion Band (Cold County opened)
  
• Saturday, 6/10/23 – Rock Hearts
  
• 6/6/23 – Dan Bui & BlueGrass BlueShield (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• Saturday, 6/3/23 – Blackstone Valley Bluegrass
  
• 5/30/23 – Old Hat Stringband (Cousin Bobby opened)
  
• 5/23/23 – The Wabash Cannibals (Green Heron opened)
  
• 5/16/23 – The Ruta Beggars (Moriah, Evan & Mike opened)
  
• Saturday, 5/13/23 – Too Blue
  
• 5/9/23 – Andy Cambria & The Cambrian Explosion (Mary Z. Cox and Cameron Freer opened)
  
• 5/2/23 – Berklee's American Roots Music Program ensemble the 21st Century String Band (The Charles River Ducklings opened)
  
• Saturday, 4/29/23 – Mamma's Marmalade
  
• 4/25/23 – ​Wide Open Spaces (Alayna Maysie Band opened)
  
• 4/18/23 – Noah G. Fowler & Folk (Berklee's American Roots Music Program ensemble The Invasive Toads opens)
  
• 4/11/23 – Laura Orshaw & Friends (Cahaba Roots opened)
  
• 4/4/23 – Audrey Mae (Berklee's American Roots Music Program ensemble Mashed and Baked opened)
  
• 3/28/23 – Kathleen Parks & Friends (John Wayne's Dream opened)
  
• 3/21/23 – The Spring Hill Rounders (Nash Reilly and Frontier opened)
  
• Saturday, 3/18/23 – The Foreign Landers w/ Nate Sabat & Julian Pinelli
  
• 3/14/23 – The Snowpocalypse Players (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• Saturday, 3/11/23 – Mike Compton & Joe Newberry
  
• 3/7/23 –​ The Salty Almonds (Stoneface Mountain opened)
  
• 2/28/23 – Alex Formento & Friends (Band of Friends, Wall of Sound opened)
  
• Saturday, 2/25/23 – Joe K. Walsh with Lincoln Meyers, Steve Roy & Ella Jordan
  
• 2/21/23 – Ben Pearce & Friends (The Ruth & Ben String Band opened)
  
• 2/14/23 – Josh Rinkel (Berklee's American Roots Music Program ensemble The Blue Quails opened)
  
• 2/7/23 – Local Freight (The Almost Grown-Ups opened)
  
• Saturday, 2/4/23 –​​ Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass (presented in conjunction with the Boston Bluegrass Union)
  
• 1/31/23 – Southern Rail (Stoneface Mountain opened)
  
• 1/24/23 – Mike Siegel & Landline Revival (Gretchen Bowder & Excess Baggage opened)
  
• 1/17/23 – Greystone Rail (The False Positives opened)
  
• 1/10/23 – The Mudsills (Laura Orshaw's Jam opened)
  
• ​1/3/2023 – The Reunion Band (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• 12/27/22 – True Life Bluegrass (Nikolai Margulis & Friends opened)
  
• 12/20/22 – Sam Stambler & The Damn Ramblers (The Ruth & Ben String Band opened)
  
• 12/13/22 – Evan Murphy & Friendzanita play the songs from the classic album Manzanita by The Tony Rice Unit (The Lonely Mountain Canyon Ranger Boys opened)
  
• ​12/6/22 – The Hope Valley Volunteers (Berklee's American Roots Music Program ensemble The Blue Quails opened)
  
• 11/29/22 – Gabe Hirshfeld & Daft Plunk (The Splinters opened)
  
• 11/22/22 – Catherine "BB" Bowness & Friends (The New Grown-Ups opened)
  
• 11/15/22 – Dan Bui & BlueGrass BlueShield (Berklee's American Roots Music Program ensemble the 21st Century String Band opened)
  
• 11/8/22 – Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light (Max Wareham & the Doghouse Mountain Boys opened)
  
• 11/1/22 – Korey Brodsky & Friends (Second Nature Bluegrass opened)
  
• 10/25/22 – Joe Sings Joe (Deviant Folk opened)
  
• 10/18/22 – Alex Rubin & Friends (The Mudsills opened)
  
• 10/11/22 – Tony Watt & MASHachusetts (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• 10/4/22 – Chris Luquette presents: The Grass Messengers (Cousin Bobby opened)
  
• Summer '22 – Bluegrass Tuesdays moved from The Cantab Lounge to Lily P's Fried Chicken & Oysters
  
• ​6/14/22 – All the way from the hills of Eastern Kentucky: The Kevin Prater Band (The Spring Hill Rounders opened)
  
• 6/7/22 – Andy Cambria & The Cambrian Explosion (Deviant Folk opened)
  
• 5/31/22 – Josh Rinkel (The Splinters opened)
  
• 5/24/22 – The Ruta Beggars (The New Grown-Ups opened)
  
• 5/17/22 – Andy Reiner & Better Gnomes and Gardens (G Rockwell's Jam opened)
  
• 5/10/22 – The Reunion Band (The Wabash Cannibals opened)
  
• 5/3/22 – Noah G. Fowler & Folk (The False Positives opened)
  
• 4/26/22 – The Mudsills (BB & Laura's Jam opened)
  
• 4/19/22 – True Life Bluegrass (The Average Joes opened)
  
• 4/12/22 – Laura Orshaw & Friends (Salty Almond Collective opened)
  
• 4/5/22 – Ethan Hawkins Bluegrass Party (Pretty Saro opened)
  
• 3/29/22 – Rock Hearts (Ruth, Ben, Larry & Victor opened)
  
• 3/22/22 – Gabe Hirshfeld & Daft Plunk (Erker & Murphy opened)
  
• 3/15/22 – Mile Twelve (Laura Orshaw & Friends opened)
  
• 3/8/22 – Sam Stambler & His Damn Ramblers (BB's Jam opened)
  
• 3/1/2022 – Chris Luquette & The East Coast Bluegrass Band (Goodtime Revival opened)​