Yonder Mountain plays high-energy, highly improvisational mountain music with a modern twist. Like an old fashioned hootenanny, the atmosphere at a Yonder Mountain show is infectious, particularly when bassist Ben Kaufman and mandolin player Jeff Austin launch into epic, groove-laced breakdowns. The percussive throb of bass and sweet, thrilling ring of mandolin provide the perfect amount of tension, seeming to spiral around each-other, climbing higher and higher, like a shepherd scale. Its like auditory THC, which is sure to make Yonder Mountain String Band near and dear to the heart of any true noodling jam band fanatic.
Sat., April 18, 8 p.m., 2009
