5/6/2023 0 Comments Primordia trailblazing 2Yet, given that your first EP came out five years ago, did you feel like, “Hey, I’m not that new!”Ī: I saw people online were commenting, “You’re not new. Q: It’s so awesome that you were nominated for the 2023 best new artist Grammy. I actually played my first show at a pizza parlor in Palo Alto. But the band was going by the name of the Warlocks then.Ī: I didn’t know that. Q: Yeah, the Grateful Dead’s first show was actually played right around the corner from the Guild - at the old Magoo’s Pizza Parlor. I was so excited and just wanted to be like, “This is so cool playing with you in Menlo Park.” I know he went to school there and had roots there. Q: Speaking of the Grateful Dead, didn’t you play with Bob Weir at the Guild last year?Ī: Yes! It was the coolest thing ever. And I didn’t realize that Stevie Nicks went to Menlo-Atherton and Joan Baez went to Palo Alto High, I think. It’s just cool all the connections with the Grateful Dead. Someone gave me a book recently and it’s like the rock history of Palo Alto. Q: I don’t think the Bay Area - in particular, the twin towers of Palo Alto and Berkeley - get enough credit when it comes to bluegrass.Ī: Yeah, totally. Review: Country music’s coolest new artist took the stage in San Francisco It was a great place to grow up.Ī: Now that I live in Nashville, people are often like, “How did you get into bluegrass living in the Bay Area?” But there’s actually such a great scene, and it was cool place to grow up because there were so many people around me like Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick, who were these really strong supportive women who led their own bluegrass bands. We would go to music festivals like Hardly Strictly and Father’s Day Bluegrass festival in Grass Valley and Strawberry Music Festival in Yosemite. I would go to Gryphon and try out guitars. My dad would host bluegrass jams at the house. Growing up as a kid, there was just music around the house all the time. Q: Talk to me about growing up in the Bay Area and how it would factor into the music that would steal your heart.Ī: My dad has taught music at Gryphon Stringed Instruments (in Palo Alto), starting in the ‘80s. I had a cousin who worked there, actually. Q: Did you see movies at the Guild? Because it was a movie theater when you were growing up.Ī: Yes, I did. I am so glad that the Guild exists now, because there wasn’t an obvious venue for me to play like right where I grew up before that. I recently had the chance to chat with the Palo Alto High School graduate about growing up in the Bay Area, her big Grammy night and her efforts to educate others about alopecia areata, an autoimmune skin disease that causes hair loss. Single day tickets are $20–$80 and full-festival passes are $65–$195,. and tickets for both shows are sold out, but fans can sign up for the waitlist at .Ī few months after the Guild gigs, Tuttle and Golden Highway will return to Northern California to headline the 48th annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival, which runs June 15-18 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley. The singer-songwriter - who absolutely shreds on guitar - will be performing with her band Golden Highway April 1 and 2 at the newly renovated and reimagined venue, which Tuttle points out is “like 10 minutes from where I grew up.” “We played there last year and it was one of my favorite shows of the year.” I love the Guild,” says the Palo Alto native, who was also nominated for a best new artist Grammy. Molly Tuttle returns home a conquering hero, settling into the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park for a highly anticipated concert stand this weekend after having recently captured the 2023 Grammy Award for best bluegrass album with “Crooked Tree.”
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