Andy Frasco & Kitchen Dwellers

With curly tufts of a recognizable ‘fro peeking out from his omnipresent knit cap, Andy Frasco is a cross between John Belushi’s Joliet Jake Blues and Jimmy Buffett. He’s a band-fronting, songwriting party animal who turns into a swirling rock and roll Tasmanian Devil onstage leading his U.N., not unlike Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band. The band has grown from playing bars to touring more than 250 days a year, with Frasco describing that 15-year journey on Growing Pains, the group’s landmark 10th studio album. Kitchen Dwellers continue to carve out their own lane in progressive roots music, blending bluegrass, folk, and psychedelic grit into a sound as expansive as their Montana home, with instrumental virtuosity and emotional storytelling that’s grown them from regional upstarts into one of the most dynamic bands in modern string music.