Just wanted to tell y’all about a bunch of festivals and concert halls where you can find us making music over the next few months.
Familiar names like Musikfest, the Celtic Heritage Festival, Historic Bristol Day and our 10th (yes, 10th!) appearance at our perennial favorite, Albert Music Hall! …AND new and exciting ones like the Northern Appalachian Folk Festival (where we will be headlining!)
Check out our calendar for all the particulars!
We hope you can make it. Would love to see you!
Check out our new song “Everlasting Faint (The Tale of the Greenbrier Ghost)” . It’s the true story of Elva Zona Heaster Shue, a young woman from Greenbrier County WV, who was strangled by her husband because he didn’t like the stew that she made for his dinner. He then covered up the murder. Elva Zona’s ghost appeared to her mother so that the truth would be known. It’s one of the few cases in US history where the testimony of a ghost was accepted in a court of law. Listen to the song to see what happened!
And on October 28, we will be releasing the music video that we shot on location at Elva Zona’s gravesite. Stay tuned! We’ll send a link.
We are using this song to help raise money for the Family Refuge Center in Greenbrier County, West Virginia that helps victims of Domestic Violence in a three county area. Please give if you can!
Thank You!
Love y’all!
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We may be all stuck at home these days, but you can still have a blast at the Philly Folk Festival–from anywhere in the world, for the first time ever!
Mindy and Kevin are playing again this year on Sunday night (8/16 — tomorrow!!) at 7:30pm EST on the Front Porch Stage. Tickets available here (and you get access to the recordings for a whole week afterward, too)!
At long last, our second album Big Oak Road is available now! Check out all the great places you can hear and buy it!
You can also hear us play it live at one of our upcoming CD release mini tour! Tonight we’ll be celebrating at Tir na nOg in Trenton, NJ. November 2nd, we’re returning to Albert Hall in Waretown, NJ. And November 23, we’re playing for the Philly Folksong Society in Roxborough, PA.
Keep an eye on our calendar for more events!
This week, two new songs “The Children’s March (Mother Jones)” and “Going Once” from our forthcoming album Big Oak Road went out to radio and reviewers!! We’re already hearing some great things from reviewers, like here and here and aquí. (And thank you!)
We’ll release the two songs on August 16 at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, but you can pre-order them on Band Camp and hear them live at Musikfest next weekend!
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the most up-to-the-minute updates!
We’ve been hard at work pulling together our brand new album Big Oak Road, and it’s almost here! Keep an ear out for lots of new original music and some new old favorites.
In the meantime, you can hear us live this summer at the Philly Folk Festival and Bethlehem Musikfest!
Exciting news for St Patrick’s Day –we’ll be playing a concert again this year at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, on Saturday, March 17 from 8-10pm along with some special guests. Get your tickets here!
And don’t forget our annual Irish festival outing on Saturday, March 24 at 9pm at Albert Music Hall in Waretown, NJ.
Hope to see you there!
Come join the River Drivers and our musical guests as we raise money for those affected by the devastating floods in West Virginia.
We’ll be playing on October 1, 2016 starting at 8 PM @ Tir na nÓg in Trenton, NJ
Admission is free but we’ll be collecting money for local organizations in Greenbrier County, WV, where a 1000-year flood wiped out many homes and businesses just this past summer. As we played concerts around the eastern ridges of the Mountain State, it was clear there is a long road ahead–from cleaning up to rebuilding lives. We can all help a bit!
Hope to see y’all at the benefit concert!!!
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the River Drivers are releasing our new original song “Cumann na mBan,” about the women who clasped hands across class boundaries to help lead the fight for an Irish Nation. They were activists, nationalists, feminists and socialists whose ultimate sacrifices were, for far too long, overshadowed by their male comrades in arms.
Listen to our new single on YouTube, download a free copy here–and soon you’ll be able to buy a copy on iTunes, Spotify, CDBaby, Amazon, and more!
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