Hometown: Alexandria, VA
Label: AAA Music
Management: Nancy Lisi
Website: KingStreetBluegrass.com
Sounds Like: Seldom Scene, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, Ralph Stanley, Grateful Dead
Genre: Americana
King Street Bluegrass is a traditional bluegrass band with blues, folk, and country influences.
Although based in DC, King Street Bluegrass’ members have rural, farm and coal miner family roots from the mountains of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Southern Virginia.
They’ll regale you with familiar Bluegrass Country Americana and a original tune or two, beloved by their audiences. Harmony voices with banjo, guitar, harmonica, Fiddle & upright bass,
“With rich vocal harmonies, fine musicianship, and clear love of making music, King Street Bluegrass brings energy and heart to bluegrass, country, and original songs.”
D F - Washington Folk Festival
“May 30, 2014, This Blogger wrote "if every city had a bluegrass band like King Street Bluegrass, we’d all be sittin’ a little higher on life’s hog."”
Nathan Empsall - Hard Times No More
“King Street Bluegrass has just what the doctor ordered”
Caroline Lang - NorthernVirginia Magazine
“When Robert Swain, Nancy Lisi,.. ...and Stacey Sinclair get together, their collective love of making music is can’t help but wash over the audience. At a time when more and more “live” music is produced by drum machines and computers, this band gets it right by producing just the right blend of instrumentation and vocal harmonization to create a bluegrass sound that is pure magic to the ears.”
Bluegrass Spin - Bluegrass Spin
“.. together they form the King Street Bluegrass Band. Want to hear “Blue Moon of Kentucky," “The Salty Dog” and “The Dixie Pig," the latter written in memory of the former Route 1 restaurant?"”
James Cullum - Kingstown-Rose Hill Patch
“......some of the best bluegrass musicians in the area. Participating bands include Second String, The Family Hammer, By and By, Split String Soup, King Street Bluegrass, the Flower Hill String Band and emcee Banjer Dan. The event is brought you by Councilmember Tommy Wells, the Washington Convention and Sports Authority, Living Classrooms, Sierra Nevada and Flying Dog beer...”
Admin - Tommy Wells