Projects.
Sweaty Already String Band
Our unending love for all types of music has led Charlie Hustle and The Grifters to form a side project of our side project: Sweaty Already String Band! We had a chance to open for Nashville phenoms The Barefoot Movement at Thunderbird Café, and have been hustlin' at bluegrass festivals throughout western Pennsylvania. We've shared some high and lonesome harmonies at the January Ice Jam in Butler, Oil Country Bluegrass Festival in Oil City and have brought some bluegrass-style Hustlin' to Leechburg, Lawrenceville, and Latrobe.
Listen to our live shows on Archive.org!
Grant Street Grifters
Formed in 2008, the acoustic duo, Grant Street Grifters, specializes in Folk, Old-Time, and Blues and is based in southwest Pennsylvania's Steel City. Since their inception, Peter Flynn (guitar/vocals) and Trish Imbrogno (double bass/vocals) have been a fixture in the Pittsburgh music scene, as well as sharing their talents up and down the I-79 corridor. The combination of their polar opposite playing styles lends a unique sound to traditional American Folk music.
Molly Alphabet
Molly Alphabet is a country singer-songwriter born, raised, and residing in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Molly and her friends play country music with a classic feel in arrangements from a simple duo to a 5-piece band complete with drums, keys, upright bass, electric guitar, and the occasional pedal steel– blending the sounds of traditional country twang, kazoo solos, and a Pittsburgh accent into something that will make you want to do the two-step. Each set is a mix of originals and your favorite tunes from decades past.
Past Projects
The Jakob's Ferry Stragglers
Hailing from the mountain towns of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland, The Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers draw freely from Old-Time, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, and Swing music to create their own brand of high energy, Appalachian Bluegrass. The band was founded in 2014 with a very simple goal: write good songs, honor the music, and take it to the road. Their music, described as heavy and traditional with stirring harmonies, powerful instrumentation, and a progressive originality, has been experienced on festival stages including Delfest, Grey Fox, Bristol Rhythm and Roots, Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, Darrington Bluegrass Festival, and others across the country.
The Casual Hobos
The Casual Hobos are a bluegrass trio based in Pittsburgh, PA. Lead by guitarist Steve Ludwig, the ensemble is rooted in the traditional bluegrass style, performing tunes by Flatt and Scruggs, Ernest Tubb, Ralph Stanley and more.
Crandall Creek
Crandall Creek is a Bluegrass band based out of Moundsville, WV, that plays a mix of folk, acoustic country and gospel that is influenced by the Appalachian music.
Charlie Hustle & The Grifters
Charlie Hustle & the Grifters brings together four Pittsburgh-area musicians through a shared appreciation for all types of music, stirring our love of blues, rock, folk and funk into a tasty musical gumbo. Blending original tunes with covers ranging from Dave Van Ronk to Dylan and the Dead, our sets run the gamut from Delta blues and classic rock to jazzy funk and psychedelic jamminess. We make music — people dance. So grab yer dancin' shoes and join the Hustle!
Listen to live shows on our Archive.org channel!
Savage Mountain Stillers
Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA, and Cumberland, MD, Savage Mountain Stillers brings together a core of four DelFest Academy alumni for a traditional bluegrass experience. The band has studied with some of the greats of bluegrass -- guitarists Ronnie Bowman (Band of Ruhks), Andy Falco (Infamous Stringdusters), Leigh Gibson (The Gibson Brothers) and Cody Kilby (The Travelin' McCourys), bassists Mike Barber (The Gibson Brothers), Missy Raines (The New Hip) and Alan Bartram (Del McCoury Band), and banjo phenoms Murphy and Casey Henry, Rob McCoury (Del McCoury Band) and Eric Gibson (The Gibson Brothers).
Their name is derived from the mountain that they cross for rehearsals, a love of distilled liquor and, quite possibly, the Yinzer pronunciation of at least two band members' favorite football team.
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