photo by Tobin Voggesser
This past weekend, Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora, NY, hosted the 2019 Borderland Music + Arts Festival, and the two-day gathering's Sunday schedule offered a couple of collaborative bluegrass highlights, including headliner Greensky Bluegrass welcoming fellow festival artist Keller Williams for a tribute to late mandolinist and Yonder Mountain String Band co-founder Jeff Austin.
In between two of their live staples, "Don't Lie" and "Windshield," Greensky brought out Williams to add guitar and vocals to the group's live debut of Austin's "New Horizons," which he debuted with Yonder Mountain back in 2000 and which Williams has performed several times in different configurations.
Earlier in the day at Borderland, Williams led his own Grateful Gospel group in a special set featuring Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge plus The Infamous Stringdusters. The collective opened up with "Feel Like a Strangers" and ran through Grateful Dead classics "Mr. Charlie," "Shakedown Street," "Eyes of the World" and "Samson & Delilah" before offering a mashup of "They Love Each Other" and "Cumberland Blues" then closing with a run of "Scarlet Begonias."
Check out the full setlists below, along with fan-shot video of the Grateful Grass finale. Next up for Greensky Bluegrass is an underground performance at The Caverns in Pelham, TN, tomorrow.
Greensky Bluegrass
Borderland Festival, Knox Farm State Park - East Aurora, NY
Old Barns, Don't Lie, New Horizons*, Windshield, Can't Make Time, Just to Lie, All Four, Hit Parade of Love, Jaywalking, When Doves Cry
Notes: * w/ Keller Williams, first time played
Source: phantasytour.com
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Keller Williams' Grateful Grass feat. Oteil Burbridge & The Infamous Stringdusters
Borderland Festival, Knox Farm State Park - East Aurora, NY
Feel Like a Stranger, Mr. Charlie, Shakedown Street, Eyes of the World, Samson & Delilah, "They Cumberlove Each Other"*, Scarlet Begonias
Notes: * mashup of "They Love Each Other" and "Cumberland Blues"
