The Packway Handle Band | Alt Bluegrass from Athens, GA

Saturday, July 4
1st Annual Red, White, & Brewgrass Festival - Metling Point - Athens, GA

Sunday, July 5
Wolf Mountain Vineyards - Dahlonega, GA

Thursday, July 16
Furman University - Greenville, SC

Friday, July 17
Geogia Theatre Benefit Show @ Farm 255 - Athens, GA

Saturday, July 18
Five Spot - Atlanta, GA w/ the Dappled Greys

Thursday, July 23
Trouser Mouse - Blue Springs, MO

Friday, July 24
Front Range Barbeque - Colorado Springs, CO

Saturday, July 25
Oskar Blues - Lyons, CO

Sunday, July 26
Oskar Blues - Lyons, CO

Monday, July 27
Southern Sun - Boulder, CO

Wednesday, July 29
The Dame - Lexington, KY

Thursday, July 30
Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH

Friday, July 31
The Raven Lounge - Philadelphia, PA

Sunday, August 2
Podunk Bluegrass Festival - East Hartford, CT

Tuesday, August 4
Cantab Lounge - Cambridge, MA

Thursday, August 6
Rodeo Bar - New York, NY

Friday, August 21
Strutting Duck - Auburn, AL

Saturday, August 22
Georgia Theatre - Athens, GA w/ the Corduroy Road

Saturday, August 29
Private Event

Saturday, September 12
Private Event

Friday, September 18
World Grotto - Knoxville, TN

Saturday, September 19
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Bristol, TN/VA

Sunday, September 20
Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Bristol, TN/VA

Monday, September 21
Ashford Manor - Watkinsville, GA

Thursday, October 8
Blackwater Bluegrass @ Moon River Brewing Co - Savannah, GA

Saturday, October 17
Crimson Moon - Dahlonega, GA

Saturday, October 23
Private Event

Packway Handle Band & The Melting Point present
1st Annual Red, White & Brewgrass Festival
4th of July - Athens, GA
Tickets On Sale Now

Watch PHB perform on Celtic Connections edition of BBC's
'Travelling Folk''

Read the "Band to Watch" feature on PHB in the April 2008 edition of Bluegrass Now Magazine '

First and foremost, we send our best wishes out to everyone at the Georgia Theatre. The Theatre has been a big supporter of our band for years, and we hope we can return the favor and do what we can to help them rebuild. We are working on putting together a benefit show for July 17 at Farm 255. Venice is Sinking will be there, and more bands and details will be announced soon.

Thanks very much to everyone who voted for us in the Flagpole Music Awards! There were some really good bands in the Americana category this year (our friends Don Chambers & The Corduroy Road), and we were really honored to take home the award.

We are also psyched to be co-hosting the upcoming 1st Annual Red, White, and Brewgrass Festival at the Melting Point. We’ll be sharing the stage with Mountain Heart, Mayhem String Band, Dappled Greys, and Corduroy Road, just to name a few. There will be 14 bands on 2 stages beginning at 1 pm, and tickets are on sale now.

We've been spending more time in the studio recording tracks for another all-original album. We'll give you an update when we're almost there. Speaking of recordings, Andrew (aka the Fiddlin' Heatwave) has made his old-time recording "I Caught You at the Old Fashioned" EP (2005) available on AthensMusic.net. For those of you interested in something very different, his 2008 full-length release "A(n) Simulated Complaint" is also available on Athensmusic.net and CDbaby. And by very different we mean there is not one note of bluegrass, old-time, folk or any kind of roots music on this disc. None whatsoever.

Also, for all of you aspiring clawhammerers: Tom will be co-teaching Beginning Clawhammer Banjo this fall at the John C. Campbell Folk School. More details to come.

Well, folks, hope to see you out on the road, we have whole string of dates coming up that will take us from Rockygrass to New England to Galax and lots of places in between. And, for those of you who wonder what it's like for us out there, we've added a tour diary of one of our more unusual tours this past fall. Check it out. There is tell of corn mazes, arrests (not of us), hamburger eating contests, canceled shows and a few of the other standard components of a Packway Handle Band tour. There is even some drama and some sitting doing nothing.

Booking

For booking information:
booking@packwayhandle.com

Josh Erwin - 678-468-2065
Tom Baker - 706-254-2172
Andrew Heaton - 706-461-4328

Contact The Band

Michael Paynter
Josh Erwin
Tom Baker
Andrew Heaton
Zach McCoy

Contact The Webpage Creator

Jessica Horwitz: jessica@packwayhandle.com

Please visit my website at www.jessicahorwitz.com