Kitchen Dwellers in Bozeman

Kitchen Dwellers are an American quartet formed in Bozeman, Montana, in 2010. The band calls its approach “galaxy grass”: bluegrass instrumentation and songwriting shaped by extended jam-band improvisation. Its albums include Ghost in the Bottle, Muir Maid, Wise River and Seven Devils. In 2022, the Galaxy Grass x Cosmic Country Tour paired Kitchen Dwellers with Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country for a run of US concerts. The band later mounted the Seven Devils Tour. Beyond Montana, Kitchen Dwellers have performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and Northwest String Summit in Oregon.

AJ Lee & Blue Summit is an American bluegrass band formed in Santa Cruz, California, in 2015 and led by singer and mandolinist AJ Lee. Its music draws on country and folk songwriting, supported by guitars, fiddle and upright bass. The group’s albums include Like I Used to, I’ll Come Back and City of Glass. AJ Lee & Blue Summit have performed at MerleFest in North Carolina and RockyGrass in Colorado. In California, the band has played the listening-room setting of Freight & Salvage in Berkeley and the club stage at The Chapel in San Francisco.