NEW ALBUM

OLD JUNIPER

OUT NOW

“[Old Juniper is] a doozy. Old and new, evocative, current—all original. And I, as one who’s always had one foot in “old weird America” and the other in new weird America, love this recording.

Down Hill Strugglers have, as Nathan Salsburg put it in his notes, 'an exquisite sensitivity to the seam where collective tradition and individual artistry meet.' I couldn’t agree more.”

- ALICE GERRARD

The Down Hill Strugglers is an old time string band. They have released albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Jalopy Records and are featured on the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film, "Inside Llewyn Davis" produced by T-Bone Burnett, Dreamland with Margot Robbie as well as other films and video games.

The band formed while hanging out at the home of their mutual friend Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, where they also met bandmate and mentor John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers. Their music reflects and extends the strong feeling and diversity of sounds found on old commercial and field recordings from as early as the 1920s and 1930s.  The Down Hill Strugglers carry forward the sounds of the old, rural America. 

MUSIC

“The Down Hill Strugglers are, to my ears, the very best interpreters of traditional material presently going.”

- AMANDA PETRUSICH, The New Yorker

TOUR DATES

Sept. 5th - Kingston, NY - House Concert

7pm | $10-20 suggested donation | RSVP email: dearnicolas [at] gmail.com

Sept. 6th + 7th - Hillsdale, NY - Oldtone Music Festival

Info and Tix at: oldtone.org

Sept. 8th - Putnam Valley, NY - Tompkins Corners Cultural Center

4pm - afternoon show | Info and Tix at: tompkinscorners.org

Sept. 10th - Durham, NC - House Concert

7pm doors/7:30pm start | tickets: $20 | For tix email: Sonya.badigian [at] gmail.com

Sept. 11th - Floyd, VA - Floyd Country Store

6pm doors/6:30pm start | Info and Tix at: floydcountrystore.com

Sept. 12th - Thomas, WV - The Purple Fiddle

8pm | Info and Tix at: purplefiddle.com

Sept. 14th - Baltimore, MD - The Red Room at Normals Books and Records

8pm | 425 E 31st Street  | Info and Tix at: redroom.org

Sept. 15th - Takoma Park, MD - School of Musical Traditions

4pm afternoon show | Takoma Spark, 7112 Willow Park Ave | Info and Tix at: schoolofmusicaltraditions.com

Sept. 17th - Nashville, TN - Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge

7pm | 102 E Palestine Ave, Madison, TN 

Sept. 18th - Louisville, KY - B-Side

8pm doors / 8:30pm start | E. Washington Street | b-sidevenue.com

Sept. 20th - NYC - Jenkins House Concerts

6:45 Door 7:30 Show | West Side, NYC | For details and tix RSVP to: sandilion49 [at] gmail.com

Sept. 21st - Brooklyn, NY - Album Release Show @ Jalopy Theatre

8pm doors / 8:30pm start | w/ Jerron Paxton | Info and Tix at: jalopytheatre.org