Will Stewart and The Mountain Grass Unit
These talented musicians are local rising stars that will be sure to delight audience members of all ages.
April 21, 2023 • 7:00 pm
Lawn at Wald Park
FREE and open to all ages.
Concessions available.
Bring a blanket or chair and enjoy the music!
Will Stewart is a Birmingham-based singer/songwriter. He sings about the modern South with all its characters, complexities, open spaces, and beauty. Stewarts songs are as complex and diverse as the characters and stories he shares. His tunes range from country, folk, acoustic and rock.
Having lived away in Nashville with fans reaching as far away as London, Will felt something drawing him back down South. Since returning to Alabama in 2016, he has released two solo albums (“County Seat” & “Way Gone”).
In addition to his recordings, he has worked on numerous collaborative projects with Timber and Willie and the Giant. He also contributed to Sarah Lee Langford’s excellent 2019 album, “Two-Hearted Rounder”, as well as having played guitar with Terry Ohms, and his band The Blips.
Stewart has received praise from Rolling Stone, Patch, American Songwriter and The Guardian — one of the U.K’s most widely-read papers. He is an artist on the rise with a vision worth chasing.
The Mountain Grass Unit consists of three Birmingham teenage pickers, Drury Anderson (mandolin and vocals), Luke Black (acoustic guitar and banjo), and Sam Wilson (upright bass). The band plays bluegrass tunes and occasionally adds a bluegrass touch to certain country, jazz, funk, rock, and even metal class
Their fast-paced picking, vocals and acoustic touch makes MGU unique allowing them to easily take on vocal harmonies of traditional bluegrass tunes, with the freedom to adapt songs from various genres to an all-acoustic format such as pieces by Tony Rice, the Grateful Dead and other contemporary acoustic masters like Billy Strings.
The youthful exuberance and energy they bring to the stage is always remarkable. Their competency at what they do was best described by Birmingham music promoter Steve Masterson when the boys performed at his Acoustic Café Festival: “They don’t just play good for their age, they play good. Period.”
