Mad Bread is Yummy in Tunes Jam
Heads are bobbing, toes are tapping as band blends a heavy dose of bluegrass with other genres at Fall Fest.
As I walked around Fall Fest on Sunday, I had the sudden, unusual sensation that a bit of Appalachia had fallen into my ear. Flat-picked banjo, sonorous country harmonies and peals of strummed mandolin echoed across Lake Park and drew me nearer. A group of listeners had eagerly flocked to the stage as a bevy of old-timey string band music poured from the fingers of local band, Mad Bread. Although Chicago is not commonly known as a bastion for Southern bluegrass music, Mad Bread has been playing to packed houses for four years now. "The thing about bluegrass is that a lot of people don't know they like it until they actually hear it. If we're playing to a room full of strangers, it's usually not long before people are bobbing their heads …
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