Twenty-five years ago this Halloween, three Kalamazoo, Michigan-area college students got together for an impromptu house party-gig that would forever change the course of progressive bluegrass. Inspired by a handful of informal performances at some bluegrass open mic nights hosted by a Kalamazoo-area rustic Greek bar & restaurant, The Blue Dolphin, Michael Arlen Bont (banjo), Dave Bruzza (guitar) and Paul Hoffman (mandolin) performed for the first time as Greensky Bluegrass, delivering an intimate set of bluegrass standards in a living room surrounded by a few small handfuls of their closest costume-laden friends and acquaintances.
The trio continued to hone their impressive chops and wildly unique style over the next…

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