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Crossfire

Crossfire


Saturday, July 18 1:00 PM


13 Holland Street, Somerville

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Crossfire

Traditional bluegrass band that also takes the genre to unexplored territory playing numbers such as “Last Dance with Mary Jane” (Tom Petty) and an unbelievable rendition of “Secret Agent Man”  (Johnny Rivers). The 18-year-old banjo player Ben Marshall grew up listening to Flatt and Scruggs mixed with Jane’s Addiction (he proudly notes he was voted “oddest kid in his high school”). Jeremy Place screams on his mandolin and writes the fastest instrumentals known in bluegrass. The band is rounded out by three veteran bluegrass musicians: Dennis who flat picks on his Martin D-28, John who does fiddlin, didlin & bowing from bluegrass to cajun, and Russ who plays a mean doghouse bass.