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What’s New in 2025

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The year is off to a great start for Still Pickin’! We are very busy spreading the joy of Bluegrass Music throughout Connecticut and beyond. Having recently played at the Yale School of Medicine’s post-graduation party, we now consider ourselves Doctors of Bluegrass. Upcoming highlights include the Connecticut Bacon Festival in June, Priam Vineyard’s Unwined Concert Series in July, Podunk Bluegrass Festival in August, and the Durham Fair in September. We’ll be playing some new songs as well as some new old songs for you. Check out our calendar for details.

We have 3 CDs available at our shows, as well as some great t-shirts suitable for all your pickin’ friends. If you’re not into CDs, we can now be heard on any music streaming service and are currently enjoying airplay throughout the world! Also coming up, we’ve got another original tune featured on a hit TV show this year…. details soon.

Looking forward to seeing you at our shows soon. Keep on pickin’!

New for 2022

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HOT OFF THE PRESS! Still Pickin’ is thrilled to announce that their original song ‘Old Guys’ from their latest CD ‘On With The Show’ is one of the top three finalists at the 2022 Podunk Bluegrass festival Songwriting Competition! First Place winner will be announced during the festival which runs from August 11- August 14th at the Festival located at the Goshen Fairgrounds in Goshen, CT! Still Pickin will perform this song live on the Main Stage at 3pm on Friday, August 12th!…hope to see you there!

The Still Pickin performance schedule for 2022 is rapidly filling up with gigs scheduled at outdoor festivals, antique flea markets, fairs, weddings and private parties! Come on out and give us a listen! (See calendar section for dates and locations)

Be sure to pick up our latest CD On With The Show featuring Still Pickin’ originals and some bluegrass standards!  Notable originals include Old Guys, Beholdin’ and On With The Show…..this CD is the perfect follow up to our previous CD Hope Valley….both are available at our shows. Along with our new CD, we also have awesome T-shirts for sale!  Designed by Dan Sheridan of Sheridan Studios, these shirts are sure eye-catchers that express the joy of bluegrass music!  We suggest purchasing one of these T’s for every picker in the family!  Both CDs and T-shirts will be available at all of our performances. 

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Still Pickin is planning to return to the studio soon to record an album of gospel music!  We’ll keep you posted on progress!

We continue to take bookings now for 2022, with popular dates filling up fast.  So if you are thinking of hiring us for your event, you might want to act quickly to get a hold of Jim at slimrdusty@gmail.com or (860) 933-3147.

Happy Pickin’,
The Still Pickin’ Band

Listen to Still Pickin’ perform the title track from their 2021 release, On With the Show!

Podunk Bluegrass Festival Returns This Year!

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Like so many other events and concerts, The Annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. We are happy to know that this great showcase will be back this year! We are also please to announce that Still Pickin’ will be performing at Podunk on the Main Stage on August 15th! Headliners for the event (which runs from Thursday, Aug. 12- Sunday, Aug. 15th at the Goshen Fairgrounds) include Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Po’ Ramblin Boys, Daryl Mosely Band, Billy Droze and many more!


 

Looking Back

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Here’s a look at some past performances and posts:

Let this short compilation video of our performance at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Hebron, CT (August 10, 2018) be a reminder that warmer is not always better. It was a hot day. Really, really hot. Drippy foreheads, sweaty fingers, sweaty boots hot. In spite of the weather, we had a great time at Podunk, and hope Bluegrass lovers everywhere will make it out to the new site in Goshen, CT for Podunk 2019.