Greetings from
Thirsty's Tavern
MAY
23
'26
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· SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2026 ·
Doors / show
8:00 PM
Featuring
Drifting From Shore
Live Tape · No. 01 · October 17, 2025
The Vault
Live at River Street Jazz Cafe
River Street Jazz Cafe · Plains, PA
Personnel
- "Mud" Mark McCabe — guitar, vocals
- "Le Flyin' Hawyn" Paul Koanui — banjo, vocals
- "Mack" Chris Attack — guitar, vocals
- "Rare Ole Farmer" Bill Van Pelt — mandolin, vocals
- "Monkeymind" Charles Hinton — pedal steel, vocals
- "Brendawg" Marlon Shaver — bass
Recorded by
Keith Litzenberger
Source
SBD + AKG C414 XLS pair (omni, spaced 10ft on stage) → Sound Devices 833 → Nuendo 4 → 24-bit FLAC
Set I
- 01 Lumpy, Beanpole & Dirt
- 02 Jack-A-Roe
- 03 Crawdad Song
- 04 Panama Red
- 05 Henry
- 06 Lazy River Road
- 07 Ramble on Rose
- 08 Dirty Old Town
- 09 My Sisters and Brothers
- 10 U.S. Blues
Set II
- 11 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- 12 I've Been All Around This World
- 13 All About You
- 14 Mr. Charlie
- 15 Dreadful Wind and Rain
- 16 unknown
- 17 Valerie
- 18 Angel From Montgomery
- 19 O Come, Angel Band
- 20 Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms
- 21 Ripple
- 22 Midnight Moonlight
Now Playing — Side A & B
Free download & streaming in lossless FLAC at archive.org . Recordings shared with the band's blessing.
Spring & Summer 2026
From the Road
Wish you were here.
Greetings from
Pour House Johnson City
JUN
5
'26
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· FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2026 ·
Doors / show
8:00 PM
Featuring
Drifting From Shore
Greetings from
Keuka Springs Vineyard
JUN
12
'26
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· FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2026 ·
Doors / show
6:00 PM
Featuring
Drifting From Shore
Greetings from
Funk n Waffles
JUN
15
'26
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· MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2026 ·
Doors / show
7:00 PM
Featuring
Drifting From Shore
Greetings from
Abels Pub Pavilion
JUL
4
'26
Postmark
· SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2026 ·
Doors / show
7:00 PM
Featuring
Drifting From Shore
More dates coming. We're keeping a list.
· From the Road · Drifting From Shore ·
Stay in touch
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Bars, festivals, weddings, parties, parking lots, pirate ships — if there's room for six players and an audience, we're interested. Tell us about the gig.
Binghamton, NY · Six-Piece Jamband-Bluegrass
The Crew
Six pickers, one ship.
Bio
Drifting From Shore is a six-piece jamband-bluegrass outfit out of Binghamton, NY. We love the bluegrass tradition and we love stretching out the way a jamband does, and we like pushing the music where it wants to go.
The sound is two guitars, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, and upright bass, with six voices on top. We pull from the Grateful Dead and Billy Strings, from Old & In the Way and Grisman/Garcia, from Railroad Earth, with old-time and Irish trad threaded in. Long jams that find their way home. Traditional tunes that take an unexpected turn. Songs of our own that we're still figuring out alongside the audience.
We gig a couple of nights a month around the Northeast. The name pretty much says it: we don't quite know where we'll end up, only that we've left the dock. We're drifting from shore, and so are you.
Personnel
- 01 "Mud" Mark McCabe guitar, vocals
- 02 "Le Flyin' Hawyn" Paul Koanui banjo, vocals
- 03 "Mack" Chris Attack guitar, vocals
- 04 "Rare Ole Farmer" Bill Van Pelt mandolin, vocals
- 05 "Monkeymind" Charles Hinton pedal steel, vocals
- 06 "Brendawg" Marlon Shaver bass
· Binghamton, NY · Drifting From Shore ·