GBKR is a Billboard chart-topping American-Roots band with six generations in their family music heritage & takes the stage performing a fusion-style music all their own called “Brewgrass.”
Along the way, fans can expect to hear a variety of Country, Rock originals & covers, award-winning Bluegrass & American-Roots music from the group's extensive catalog; with a flashy/sequined, high-energy show PRESENTED LIKE NO OTHER! Their stage show also features hits from their recent ‘40th Anniversary Celebration’ album, which was No. 1 on Billboard for 16 weeks and listed on the Top current album sales on Billboard’s 2021 Year-End chart.
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Gig Length: 60 - 120 minutes
Languages: English
Insurance: $1,000,000 - Commercial General Liability
Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers are known for their high-energy stage show and never disappoint. They aren't limited to just Bluegrass music. Their performance also includes Vintage Country, Old-time Mountain Music, Gospel, Rock, and Americana.
Typically, they perform chart-topping original songs from Gary's repertoire of his 40-year career, but we can custom tailor the show to meet the needs of your event to make it one of a kind.
Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers are a Billboard chart-topping American-Roots band with six generations in their family music heritage. They’ve toured performing in all 50 states, Canada and Europe extensively since forming in 1980. Today, GBKR takes the stage performing a fusion-style music all their own called “Brewgrass.”
With a career spanning over four decades, Gary Brewer remains one of Louisville’s greatest musical success stories still out touring today in support of new music releases to come. Along the way, fans can expect to hear a variety of Country, Rock originals & covers, award-winning Bluegrass & American-Roots music from the group's extensive catalog; with a flashy/sequined, high-energy show PRESENTED LIKE NO OTHER! Their stage show also features hits from their recent ‘40th Anniversary Celebration’ album, which was No. 1 on Billboard for 16 weeks and listed on the Top current album sales on Billboard’s 2021 Year-End chart.
Recent single “Pass Along the Good” (co-written with multi-GRAMMY award-winning Americana Music Icon, Jim Lauderdale) adds to the proliferating career of GBKR. In addition to being included on the initial round ballot in the 64th GRAMMY awards for “Best New Artist” and featured in Billboard magazine’s 2022 GRAMMY contenders issue. Saving Country Music credited GBKR as one of the groups (along with Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, and Bela Fleck) that has brought bluegrass back into the mainstream!
The guys were the featured headliners on the BGS Stage at “the world’s largest music and bourbon festival” Bourbon & Beyond with over 140,000+ in attendance on 9/15/22 with LEO Magazine saying: “Shively's own Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers made it a necessity for me to step away from Shakey Graves' set for a few to catch them in all their purple and gold shiny-suited glory! Gary has been doing his bluegrass meets Americana style music for over 40 years, and the professionalism certainly showed in their high-energy, absolute blast of a set.”
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Gary Brewer and the Kentucky Ramblers' setlist includes mostly Gary's original material, but they also include Bluegrass classics, Country, Gospel Favorites, and Old-time Mountain Music (the music passed down 6 generations in the Brewer Family).
-Bluegrass originals-
1) Johnson City Blues
2) Love in the Mountains
3) Blues Down in Kentucky
4) Sally-O
5) Girl From the Mountain
6) Home Ain't the Way it Used to be
7) Down Home Memories
8) Daddy and the Oak Tree
9) I Don't Know What's Become of Me
10) Money to Ride the Train
11) Big Train
12) I Can't Run Off with you Darling
(and more)
-Bluegrass classics-
1) It's Too Late to Walk the Floor
2) The Wildwood Flower
3) Rosie Bokay
4) Old Ebenezer Scrooge
5) Old Unlucky Devil
6) Rosewood Casket
7) Down South in New Orleans
8) Greycoat Soldier
(and more)
-Country-
1) Ghost Riders in the Sky
2) Oh Lonesome Me
3) Good Hearted Woman
4) Bye Bye Love
5) Paradise
6) If I Needed You
7) Movin' On
(and more)
-Old-time-
1) Cindy in the Summertime
2) Cluck Old Hen
3) Rocky Island
4) Mule to Ride
5) Walking in the Parlor
6) Bonnie Blue Eyes
7) Skip to my Lou
(and more)
-Gospel-
1) Once in the Stillness
2) Reach out and Touch the Lord
3) Dust on the Bible
4) Title to Heaven
5) Lord, You are the Love of my Heart (original)
(and more)
| Gary Brewer | Lead Guitar, Old-time Banjo, Vocals |
| Wayne Brewer | Upright Bass, Fiddle, Vocals |
| Mason Brewer | Mandolin, Upright Bass, Vocals |
| Cody Pearman | Banjo |
Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Mel Street, Johnny and Jack, George Jones, The Carter Family, Hank Williams Sr., Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Larry Sparks, Flatt & Scruggs.
4- Instrument Mics
3- Vocal Mics
1- 1/4" direct box
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