Thursday December 17
Billy Gilmore Bluegrass Band
at Town Pump Tavern
8:30pm
The Billy Gilmore Band is based out of Asheville, NC. The band plays bluegrass, progressive acoustic music and really just about any genre of music you can imagine in acoustic form. Currently they are a regional based group in the Southeast
doing shows between dates he is doing with the Brittany Reilly Band.Billy has performed with many bands in his musical career and currently also performs with the Brittany Reilly Band (Country/Bluegrass/Honky-Tonk) who he has played more than 300 shows with since 2006 travelling more than 60,000 miles touring nationally supporting her "Good Old Country Sound" CD Release.
He has been a member and toured with the Hickory Project, an international touring bluegrass band and toured throughout the US and Europe with them. Billy began playing music at the age of seven starting on the 5-Sting Banjo, eventually moved on to guitar, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, keyboards, guitar synth.... anything you can make sounds with basically!
He applies basic forms of theory and improvisation learned in the jazz programs he took in college, and from playing with great musicians most of his life, learning to improvise and jam he has developed a style of his own. He has enjoyed success touring both internationally and as well as playing in many venues & festivals across North America.
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