The Greg Brady Orchestra is a collective of musicians based in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, known for writing and performing both original music and covers. Their original work is deeply rooted in Funk, Fusion, Jazz, and Rock, showcasing a dynamic blend of genres. The group features Ian Thomas (guitar/vocals) and Josh Hovis (bass/vocals), who were founding members of Daddy Jones Kingdom, performing together for over a decade. Josh also played with the Western Pennsylvania-based JJR Band. Henry Kramer (guitar/vocals) currently performs with The Byson Band and previously played with Big Rail Shack Band as well as in duos with songwriters Taylor Buhler and Brandon Zarichniak. Chris Compton (drums/percussion) is a sought-after drummer in Western Pennsylvania, serving as the house studio drummer at Meat Locker Studio in Butler and playing with Rumble, an original alternative rock band.
Greg Brady Orchestra’s four core members are dedicated to creating, recording, and performing high-quality original music while also entertaining audiences with a diverse selection of covers. Their covers include songs by artists such as the Doobie Brothers, Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder, the Grateful Dead, and Dave Matthews Band

It’s a giant bonfire. Enough said.

Ruby draws upon a lifetime of experience as a songwriter and live performer, creating a unique collaboration of musical styles including elements of her Appalachian roots, classical training, rock, blues, country, jazz and old-time music to forge her own original genre of American Roots music she’s coined “Mountain Soul.”

TCD is an umbrella organization, comprised of conglomerates and sub-contracted shadow companies- that specialize in the tracking and eventual capture of cryptozoological specimens worldwide.

BRING US YOUR X-MAS TREE AND WE’LL CHUCK IT ON THE FIRE!!

Music Guest will be TC Davis & Jason Martin

As you clean up after the holidays, SAVE YOUR TREE! Bring us your tree anytime before (Or the day of) Saturday, January 4th @ 6pm and we’ll add it to the fire. If you need to drop it off before the event or during non-business hours, just leave it under our big white tent out back and we’ll stow it till it’s time to burn them!

LET’S MAKE IT A BIG ONE THIS YEAR!

BSY is taking this fun and feisty mixed level yoga class to Big Rail Brewing! The brewery will be opening early just for us, but space is limited and tickets will go fast, so grab your spot now! 

Join us for the big game on the big screen*!

*55 inches, per the legal maximum 🙄

Come join us for a weekend at Sprague Farm on January 10 – 12th!

Any $5 donation that you can make at any point throughout the weekend will go directly in the pockets of Sprague’s and paying the musicians. We’ll just do an honor system- no wristbands or hand stamping will be used. It’s not required to donate but greatly appreciated to help keep the wheels turning!

Friday’s Schedule:
4pm-9pm.
*Live music w/ TBD
*Foodtruck TBD

Saturday’s Schedule:
1pm-7pm
*Live music w/ Jeff Fetterman Band from 4pm-7pm
*Food Truck TBD

Sunday’s Schedule
1pm-6pm
*Live Music w/ Aylssa Hankey Solo
*Food Truck TBD

The six-stringer song singer from Erie, PA.

DJ’s The Lone Rangers will be spinning everyone’s favorites from the 90’s! Pop / HipHop / Rock

Originally from Bedford, PA, Coltt is an Appalachian songwriter, folksinger, published poet and author, and folklorist. He earned his MFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA & is currently a full-time musician.

It’s a giant bonfire. Enough said.

We’re FINALLY doing a concert in The Taproom! Don’t miss this super intimate show from Into The Fog!
Must have concert ticket to be in the taproom!!
This is a STANDING ROOM ONLY event!
Tickets only $10.
Very very Limited!
Follow Ticket Link
We open at 5pm.
Showtime 7pm!

Psychedelic Jamgrass from Appalachia

Into The Fog is a psychedelic jamgrass band from Raleigh, North Carolina that combines timeless songwriting with progressive instrumentation and tight harmonies. The group consists of Winston Mitchell (mandolin), Derek Lane (upright bass), and Connor Kozlosky (guitar), with everyone contributing on vocals. The band’s members have varied musical backgrounds that range from bluegrass to funk, which helps create Into The Fog’s genre-jumping sound.

The band has released three studio albums and two live records. Their latest, Carolina Moon released in August of 2024, expands upon their latest sounds incorporating collaborative songwriting, improvised jams, and a focus on harmony. Live shows are a keystone of the Into The Fog experience, as the band expands songs to highlight their instrumental prowess and push the boundaries of the newgrass sound.

Into The Fog has shared the stage with the likes of Sam Bush, Leftover Salmon, Keller & The Keels, Town Mountain, Daniel Donato, Arkansauce, Shadowgrass, Big Richard, and The Grass Is Dead. No strangers to the festival scene, Into The Fog has played FloydFest, Rooster Walk, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Charleston Bluegrass Festival, First City Music Festival, Earl Scruggs Music Festival, The Big What? and more.

Way more details coming soon!!

Join us as our Local Craft Beer Market returns. We’ll have several local breweries joining us to sell their beers. Buy canned beer to go or enjoy one on the spot. Market runs from 2pm-5pm! At 5pm, all beer other than Big Rail must be stored away.

Brewery Guests so far…
●Grist House (Millvale, PA)
●Orr’s Brewing (Titusville, PA)
● Mortals Key (Jamestown, PA)
● TBA

BSY is taking this fun and feisty mixed level yoga class to Big Rail Brewing! The brewery will be opening early just for us, but space is limited and tickets will go fast, so grab your spot now! 

Mark plays music from ranging Neil Young to Mumford & Sons, The Band to The Lumineers, CCR to Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison to Jason Mraz. Mark adds a splash of classic rock, country, soul music, or 80’s pop to his song selections, creating set lists that appeal to a variety of ages, from twenty-somethings to millennials to gen x to baby boomers!

Additionally, Mark performs music from the “American Songbook” reviving the sounds of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole.

Mark’s life-long passion for solo guitar playing has led to the creation of arrangements of jazz standards, classical guitar pieces and pop music for solo guitar bring out the challenge and beauty of the instrument whether played on acoustic, electric or hollow-body jazz guitar.

We’ve teamed up with Neshannock Creek Fly Shop from Volant, PA for our very first Fly Tying Night at Big Rail. Please note that this is not a class, but simply a chance to bring your own gear, grab a brew and Tie some flies! (Tie one on?) 

The taproom will open at 5pm. Event will run from 6pm-9pm, but anyone is welcome to come earlier and get started after 5pm if they wish.

This will be a great opportunity to meet some fellow fly fisherman in our area. All Fly Tying skill levels are encouraged!

We’re excited to welcome back Clinton Clegg, frontman of The Commonheart. This is a free show.

We’ll have all the fires lit and stoked and have S’more supplies as well!!

Love stinks, right?!

If you’re anti-valentine or just wanna have some fun stop out to Big Rail.

Singles and Couples welcome, HOWEVER, if you are caught kissing, holding hands, or doing any COUPLE-type things, you will be escorted off the premises!*

Special musical guest ‘Bleach Fuzz’.

Food truck ‘Knife & Hearth Woodfired Eatery’ 

*Just kidding. Maybe.

90s alternative & grunge tribute band

It’s a giant bonfire. Enough said.

The blues guitar legend returns to rock the woods.

Save the date! 2024 Lineup & Ticket Link Coming Soon!

The six-stringer song singer from Erie, PA.

Blues/rock guitarist Jeff Fetterman delivers the promise to keep the blues alive and well. Influenced by blues greats such as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and BB King, he plays with a fiery passion that has earned him the nickname “Boss of the Blues”.

“Fetterman is literally unstoppable. The American guitarist and singer/songwriter confirmed once again, through his new album Southern Son, to be one of the most inspired, talented, and versatile blues/rock and funk artists of the current generation. Jeff Fetterman at his absolute best!” Gio Pilato Bluebird reviews

Born and raised in small-town America in Bradford, PA, Jeff began his musical journey at age of 13. Decades later he has received numerous awards for his playing and writing.

Jeff has also received endorsements with Zemaitis guitars and Nicola brand strings. He has played with some of the greatest blues musicians in the business that include Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ana Popovic, Joe Louis Walker, Jimmy Vaughan, Samantha Fish, Chris Duarte, Steven Stills, and, Robert Randolph.

For Jeff, the end of the road is nowhere near in sight as he continues to play and write music and tour.

BSY is taking this fun and feisty mixed level yoga class to Big Rail Brewing! The brewery will be opening early just for us, but space is limited and tickets will go fast, so grab your spot now! 

Way more details coming soon!

🍀Ruari’s Irish Stout on NITRO!
🍀Our classic Red – Wrought Iron!
🍀Green jello shooters!
🍀Music by Gallatin Hall!
🍀Novotny’s Pizza Street Eats will be on site!

Gallatin Hall is a 3-piece acoustic act that blends rock, folk, and bluegrass to give a modern take on a classic Americana style. With rich harmonies, rotating instrumentations, and vivid songwriting, Gallatin Hall delivers an engaging performance that constantly offers new styles and sounds.

DJ’s The Lone Rangers will be spinning everyone’s favorites from the 80’s!

A traveling troubadour born and raised in the hills of rural western Pennsylvania. Alyssa’s music is unmistakable, with influences that span across many genres. Her lyrics bring you into the heart of the steel mills and the bucolic landscape of rural America.

Raised on country music in a working-class family, Alyssa started playing guitar at the age of twelve and writing songs throughout her high school years. She attended college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she studied fine art and graphic design. While attending college she began performing original songs at local open mic nights. For a few years after college, Hankey worked as a graphic designer and began playing solo acoustic shows on the weekends.

In 2018, she decided to quit her job and pursue music full time. Since then, Alyssa has released various albums and embarked on several cross-country tours. She also formed the Alyssa Hankey Band, a four-piece band that combines folk, country and rock. You can find them playing in and around the Pittsburgh area. Hankey has also shared the stage with artists such as The Clarks, The Steel Wheels, The Wildwoods, Warren Zeiders and Charles Wesley Godwin.

Influences: Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, John Prine, Tom Petty, Chris Stapleton, Johnny Cash, Allman Brothers Band, Neil Young and many more!

You’ll find her music on Itunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, Google Play, Youtube, etc.

BSY is taking this fun and feisty mixed level yoga class to Big Rail Brewing! The brewery will be opening early just for us, but space is limited and tickets will go fast, so grab your spot now! 

Always gritty, soulful, and sweet, this Pittsburgh-based guitarist is a respected performer who continues to expand his journey and make new fans and friends along the way.

Jimmy Adler is a bandleader with charisma and magnetic stage presence who has played many styles that are always steeped in the blues, yet always stamped with his unmistakable touch.

As a curator and bandleader of weekly Blue Monday performances, Jimmy has supported many of the region’s most well-respected musicians showcasing his ability to organize and deliver exciting shows with a variety of guests.

As a singer and leader of his own band, Jimmy plays mostly original songs from his 5 CDs that are steeped in the roots of Americana music.

Although based in Pittsburgh, Adler has thrilled audiences from the West Coast, over the pond to France, and many points in between. Jimmy is a live-wire entertainer who packs passion and energy into every performance!

Simply put, Jimmy Adler has great style, tone, and feel, and his playing is very satisfying.

“Bill Toms is a poet, a soul-shouter and guitar slinger with one foot in the gutter and an eye on the heavens above. And man, does he front a great rock n’ soul band!” – Will Kimbrough/

While it’s hard to put a finger on any one sound that defines “American music,” the compositions of Bill Toms are as close a template as any. The Pittsburgh native, along with his band Hard Rain, delivers a sound that takes the greatest of America’s most beloved genres and melds them into a poetic representation of the best the country has to offer. Bill Toms captures the American conscious with thoughtfulness, honesty, and a groove that keeps the tail feathers moving. 

Toms launched his musical career in 1987 as lead guitarist of Pittsburgh’s legendary band Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers, During that period, he opened for and played with such legendary names as The Band, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. While playing guitar, co-writing, and adding backup vocals for the Houserockers, Toms and the band recorded six studio albums and one live concert album. In 1995, The Houserockers released American Babylon, which was recorded and produced by Springsteen himself.

As a solo artist, Toms has opened for the likes of Buddy Guy, Levon Helm, Marshall Crenshaw, , Steve Forbert, and Dan Baird.
He’s plotting a string of regional east coast dates to support the release of the single “I Fulfilled My Dream“, in 2024.
For more information and tour dates, please visit www.billtoms.com

With a nod to the past and glance to the future the Dirty Grass Players are keeping alive the long history of bluegrass while pushing the traditional genre into the next generation.

The Dirty Grass Players are an energetic explosion of old-time pickin’, coloured with an inventive, newgrass hand, that is given lyrical life by their soaring vocal harmonies that exist on an ethereal plain. They live at the crossroads between the traditional, which is the backbone of what they do, and the progressive with their innovative forward-thinking approach. The Dirty Grass Players, with their steady, workman-like precision and loose adventurous spirit are a band that can both confound Bill Monroe and cause him to smile uncontrollably. Their music is progressive, traditional, experimental, imaginative, and at its core, Dirty.

The Dirty Grass Players formed in 2015 with guitarist Ben Kolakowski and mandolinist Ryan Rogers at a series of informal picking sessions in the Baltimore area. The band quickly started to garner attention in the area, culminating in them winning the competitive Charm City Bluegrass Festival Battle of the Bands in 2017. The band’s original bassist and fiddler left shortly after and they solidified around the addition of bassist Connor Murray. In 2024, Sam Guthridge joined on banjo and the band reemerged as a powerful four-piece.

Since then they have released two albums, 2020’s Beneath the Woodpile and 2023 Shiny Side Up and established themselves as one of the most exciting young bluegrass bands around. With their high-octane shows they have become a mainstay on the festival circuit, being invited to play at some of the the most prestigious gatherings from coast to coast including Delfest, Grey Fox, Kingman Island, Hot August Music Festival, Dark Star Jubilee, Ramble Fest, First Class Music Fest, and many others.

Their latest album Shiny Side Up, produced by The Travelin’ McCourys’ Coldy Kilby, continues to further the evolution of bluegrass with its hard-driving sound that showcases the progressive, darkside of bluegrass with its forward-looking, non-traditional playing and songwriting. In its praise of the album, Bluegrass Unlimited says, “Shiny Side Up validates the arrival of the Dirty Grass Players onto the scene and shows bluegrass is in good hands going forward.

Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan’s LPs, That’s What I’m Here For and Live Stock. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price Band, and solo projects, Billy Price has recorded and released a total of 20 albums, CDs, and DVDs.

Price’s album This Time for Real, with the late Chicago soul singer Otis Clay, received a 2016 Blues Music Award in the category of best soul blues album. He was nominated seven times for BMAs between 2019 and 2024 and won the 2024 Bluebird Reviews Lifetime Career Award in the U.K.

The Billy Price Band, based in Billy’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa., consists of Dave Dodd (drums), Tom Valentine (bass), Lenny Smith (guitar), Jim Britton (keyboards), Eric Spaulding (sax), and Joe Herndon (trumpet).

His latest recording is Person of Interest, on the Little Village label.

Gallatin Hall is a 3-piece acoustic act that blends rock, folk, and bluegrass to give a modern take on a classic Americana style. With rich harmonies, rotating instrumentations, and vivid songwriting, Gallatin Hall delivers an engaging performance that constantly offers new styles and sounds.

Music has guided Driftwood to hallowed ground many times since its founding members, Joe Kollar and Dan Forsyth, started making music as high schoolers in Joe’s parents’ basement. Whether the Upstate New York folk rock group—which today also includes violinist Claire Byrne, bassist Joey Arcuri, and drummer Sam Fishman—are converting new fans on a hardscrabble tour across the country or playing to a devoted crowd at hero Levon Helm’s Woodstock barn, the band’s shapeshifting approach to folk music continues to break new ground. And yet in many ways Driftwood’s latest work, the transformative December Last Call, finds the group coming home. 

Recorded in that very same basement where the Driftwood dream began, December Last Call lyrically reflects on the recent past, musing on the ways the group grew up, together and apart, through curveballs like new parenthood or pandemic shutdowns. But sonically, the band’s sixth album looks confidently to the future, experimenting with new sounds while staying true to the bluegrass roots that built them. Across the album’s nine tracks, the band often leans into hard-rocking electric guitars and driving percussion: On “Every Which Way But Loose,” we get a foot-tapping beat and a sweeping chorus, and on “Up All Night Blues,” the band shines with an ambling, sing-along-able reflection on the challenges of new motherhood. But other tracks, like standout closer “Stardust,” take a simpler route, allowing bare-bones vocals and acoustic instrumentals to underpin a deeper emotional message.

One of Driftwood’s biggest differentiators—and perhaps its biggest strength—is the sheer breadth of talent in its lineup, with Claire, Joe, and Dan all contributing as songwriters and vocalists. This creative push-pull, where each selects songs to share with the group and record together, bakes vulnerability and collaborative spirit into every recording. “It’s at the heart of what we do,” says Dan. “Everybody has a strong love for songs, for songwriting, and we each appreciate everybody else and the way that they contribute to that.” 

While 2019’s acclaimed Tree of Shade tapped Simon Felice as producer, the band opted to self-produce this latest effort, leaning into their creative impulses and striving to capture their distinctive live energy. Figuring out how to channel that on-stage intensity into a recording has actually, in many ways, been a lesson in restraint. “When I look back at the things we were writing and playing, oh, I don’t know, 10, 12 years ago, they were really arranged: a lot of you do this here, we’re going to do this there, we’re going to break down, we’re going to do a big build,” Claire explains. “These days, it’s more like, ‘Let’s play the song and just see what happens.’”

This approach makes all the more sense when you consider Driftwood’s live shows, which operate not only as effervescent, twang-studded musical parties, but also as reunions for their throng of devoted listeners—folks who have started to feel less like fans and more like something bigger. “They’re supporters. They’re friends,” explains Joe. “It’s crazy how much love we’ve got and how many wild situations on the road we’ve gotten out of because of those people.” Many of them are quite literally invested in the band’s future: December Last Call was a crowd-funded effort, and it wasn’t the band’s first. It’s as if every listener, ticketbuyer, album backer, and general band evangelist is in on Driftwood’s biggest secret: this whole band thing has endured for nearly two decades because it offers a kind of community you can’t get just anywhere.

“Driftwood is basically a beautiful friendship that happens to play music together,” says Joe. “I know it’s rare. I know I’m lucky to know these people and lean on them and go through these massive life changes together.” For Driftwood, each song is like a journal entry: cathartic to create, yes, but capable of unlocking new lessons—and when shared—forging new bonds. “We’re communal, right? Humans need to be connected,” Joe says. “And we get to have this special thing.”