About the band
Drifting From Shore is a six-piece jamband-bluegrass outfit out of Binghamton, NY. We love the bluegrass tradition and we love stretching out the way a jamband does, and we like pushing the music where it wants to go.
The sound is two guitars, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel, and upright bass, with six voices on top. We pull from the Grateful Dead and Billy Strings, from Old & In the Way and Grisman/Garcia, from Railroad Earth, with old-time and Irish trad threaded in. Long jams that find their way home. Traditional tunes that take an unexpected turn. Songs of our own that we're still figuring out alongside the audience.
We gig a couple of nights a month around the Northeast. The name pretty much says it: we don't quite know where we'll end up, only that we've left the dock. We're drifting from shore, and so are you.
The crew
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Mark "Mud" McCabe
Guitar, Vocals
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Paul "Le Flyin' Hawyn" Koanui
Banjo, Vocals
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Chris "Mack" Attack
Guitar, Vocals
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Bill Van "Rare Ole Farmer" Pelt
Mandolin, Vocals
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Charles "Monkeymind" Hinton
Pedal Steel, Vocals
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Marlon "Brendawg" Shaver
Bass
Upcoming shows
Between voyages. Follow us on Instagram for the next one.
Stay in touch
Follow along — we drop video, photos, and the next gig date here first.
Want us at your venue?
Bars, festivals, weddings, parties, parking lots, pirate ships — if there's room for six players and an audience, we're interested. Tell us about the gig.