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Bring your own camping chairs to catch some shade & live music under the Peoria sky.
Free shuttle to/from Landmark’s north parking lot, with 2 shuttles on a constant rotation to bring you right around the corner from Landmark’s north lot to the venue, and back to your car in less than one minute.
About Horseshoes & Hand Grenades:
After fifteen years, eight albums, innumerable sold out shows, and countless memories, Americana mavericks Horseshoes & Hand Grenades appropriately consider themselves a “family” on a wild, wonderful, and often whacky roller coaster. The bond between the quintet— Adam Greuel [guitar, vocals], David C. Lynch [harmonica, accordion, vocals], Collin Mettelka [fiddle, vocals], Russell Pedersen [banjo, vocals], and Samual Odin [bass, vocals]— fuels their creativity and chemistry on stage and in the studio.
“Horseshoes & Hand Grenades has always been about the adventure of it all,” Adam affirms with a grin. “We set out to have a bunch of fun making music that we believed in. Along the way, friends and fans started coming along for the ride and that added a whole other sense of magic and joy to it. It built this feeling of community, and that’s something we need in this world more than ever right now. We need some sense of fellowship, and music is such a sweet conduit to that.”That community has rapidly grown since the five musicians first met in Stevens Point, WI at college, joined forces, and hit the road harder post-graduation in roughly 2013. They have ignited stages alongside everyone from Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, Trampled By Turtles, The Infamous Stringdusters, and Railroad Earth, to Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart in addition to appearances at festivals and venues such as Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Delfest, High Sierra Music Festival, Blue Ox Music Festival, Red Rocks Amphitheater and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
In 2010, the\n
five Wisconsinites that make up Horseshoes & Hand Grenades found themselves\n
in a living room in the college town of Stevens Point, WI, holding acoustic\n
instruments and enjoying a hodgepodge of fermented beverages. Music and revelry\n
ensued that evening and, while many of the party guests eventually bid their\n
goodbye well into the morning hours, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades wasn't\n
ready to let the get-together fade. Many years later, the music still hasn't\n
stopped and the party is still going strong, from the mountain west to the\n
river towns of the Midwest that the quintet calls home, and all across America.\n
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While strongly rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music, the band produces\n
a sound that draws on the vaults of music collectively and individually enjoyed\n
throughout the course of their lives thus far. The music doesn't lend itself\n
well to categories or boundaries. One could possibly be formed, but the boys\n
seem to generally prefer fishing a river, or enjoying the company of friends\n
and barley beers.\n
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With their music well-defined or not, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades has begun\n
to form a place in the American music scene, gaining recognition on both a\n
regional and national scale. The band took 3rd place at the Telluride Bluegrass\n
Festival's Band Competition in 2012 and has since shared the stage with\n
Trampled By Turtles, The Travelin' McCourys, Railroad Earth, Merle Haggard, The\n
Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, Marty Stuart, and many\n
more. The group's third full-length Middle\n
Western was released in March of 2015 and another record is expected in\n
2017. Being mostly inspired by rivers, valleys, good friends, and good drink,\n
this five-piece is as sturdy as any Midwest riverbed and will make your toes\n
tap from sundown to sunrise.\n
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THE BAND:\n
Harmonica, Accordion, Spoons, Vocals / David C. Lynch\n
Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals / Collin Mettelka\n
Banjo, Fiddle, Vocals / Russell Pedersen\n
Guitar, Dobro, Vocals / Adam Greuel\n
Bass/ Samual Odin
