Hot Buttered Rum to play at Bluebird

San Francisco natives Hot Buttered Rum will play at 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Bluebird Nightclub.

The performance is sponsored by Groove Productions and also features fiddler Allie Kral and The New Old Calvary.

Hot Buttered Rum is made up of five members — Aaron Redner, who plays the fiddle, acoustic and electric mandolins and sings; Bryan Horne, who plays double bass and sings; Eric Yates on banjos, guitars, woodwinds and vocals; Lucas Carlton on drums and percussion; and Nat Keefe on guitar and sings.

Their combined sounds make for a relaxed bluegrass genre, and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “few things rejuvenate the soul like a warm fireside drink after an exhausting day in the snow. Hot Buttered Rum has that
effect.”

Tickets are $10 to see the Bluegrass/Americana band, but they can be purchased for $5 through groove-productions.com.

Dillon Gross is one of two owners of Groove Productions, which works to bring funk and bluegrass music to Bloomington.

Gross said this performance in Bloomington is different from what Hot Buttered Rum is used to.

“They mostly tour on the West Coast doing bluegrass festivals, so this is a rare performance for them in the Midwest,” he said.

The other featured artists are kicking off the performances at 9 p.m., and they include` Allie Kral, a former fiddler for the band Cornmeal.

“She is incredibly talented,” Gross said. “She’s a well-known touring musician who fits in with Hot Buttered Rum really well.”

But beyond being good musicians, Hot Buttered Rum also has good chemistry, according to its website.

“Hot Buttered Rum lives for songs. Songs to sing in the shower. Songs to crank through your earbuds at the DMV. Songs to name your babies after, and then make more babies to.”

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