Gangstagrass at 191 Toole

Ganangstagrass to perform on Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 191 Toole located at 191 E Toole Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701. This show is all ages, and begins at 8:00 PM with doors opening at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are $20.00. Ticket price will increase by $3.00 on the day of show. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 20th and are available at Ticketmaster.com.

“Suppose, just suppose, you could take a little of everything that’s great about this country and
distill it. The creativity, the ingenuity, the strength of the struggles of so many of its people —
indigenous, enslaved or otherwise. And then take that distilled energy and creativity and
transform it to musical form. What would you say if I told you that it’s being done?”
– R-SON the Voice of Reason

Gangstagrass brings together two kinds of American music and creates a third, greater
than the sum of the parts.

Developed as a studio project 15 years ago by Brooklyn-based producer Rench, Gangstagrass
grew into a dynamic and spontaneous live band of Americans — from Omaha Nebraska,
Pensacola Florida, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Washington DC — who have become close
friends. Several work hard at other jobs (one teaches computer programming, another works at
a comic book shop) to support their passion for making music, and four are dads, with kids
ranging in age from baby through starting college.

The band has released six full-length albums with dozens of appearances on the Billboard Top
10 bluegrass chart. Gangstagrass tracks have featured Nitty Scott MC, Dead Prez, Demeanor,
Kaia Kater, and legendary rap team Smif-N-Wessun among others. Rench, the Brooklyn-based
country and hip-hop producer who is the Mastermind behind Gangstagrass, crafted the
instantly-recognizable Long Hard Times to Come featuring T.O.N.E-z that opened every
episode of FX show Justified and earned Gangstagrass a 2010 Emmy nomination for Best
Theme Song – more proof that Gangstagrass “paved the Old Town Road.”

Putting down roots and branching out across never-before-bridged genres, Gangstagrass has
delighted crowds and has blown minds across the world, garnering a reputation among fans for
dynamism and spontaneity. From SXSW to Grey Fox to the Americana Festival to music
festivals abroad, these live performances explode the boundaries between genres generally
thought to be incompatible.

Taking full advantage of the improvisational aspects and virtues of both hip-hop and bluegrass,
including frequent three-part harmonies, MCs Dolio the Sleuth and R-SON the Voice of Reason
trade verses and freestyle alongside the unparalleled skills of fellow vocalists Dan Whitener on
banjo, B.E. Farrow on fiddle, and Rench on guitar and beats.

The new Gangstagrass album No Time for Enemies was released in August 2020 and quickly
rose to #1 on the Billboard bluegrass charts, as the band continues to explore new sonic
territory while showing how amazing the sound of America is when it all comes together.
For more information please visit: gangstagrass.com