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The Infamous Stringdusters played the 2010 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival inside of Granite Hill Camping Resort on 05-14-2010.  The Infamous Stringdusters were on the stage just before the headliner, Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas (which also included special guest Tony Rice), and they played after The Seldom Scene.  This was a record attendance for their 60th festival.  I believe they said attendance was over 4,000 this year.

The Infamous Stringdusters’ hard work is beginning to pay off as they are picking up a lot of notoriety in the bluegrass world.  Their instrumentation is articulate and fast, just like a good bluegrass band should be.  For a fairly young band these guys have a lot of promise. They are currently promoting their new album, “Things That Fly”.  While many people at the festival were there to see Alison Krauss, many left fans of the Sting Dusters.  They got a standing ovation by the crowd and they were swamped with people that wanted to talk to them after their set.

The infamous Stingdusters are:
Andy Hall – Dobro
Andy Falco – Guitar
Chris Pandolfi – Banjo
Jeremy Garrett – Fiddle
Jesse Cobb – Mandolin
Travis Book – Upright Bass

I am unsure if the Infamous Stringdusters have ever played a Jimi Hendrix song, but talking to Andy Falco before the show, he commented that he liked my Jimi Hendrix shirt and then during stage setup/soundcheck, bassist Travis Book saw my Jimi Hendrix shirt and warmed his vocals and tested the microphones by repeatedly singing a “Well, I stand up next to a mountain” which is of course a portion of Hendrix’s Voodoo Child.  It got me thinking, bluegrass players are pretty much all phenomenal players (Infamous Stingdusters certainly fall in this category) so I’d love to see some bluegrass Hendrix tunes or at least some Hendrix tags mixed in with some songs.