Artist description Mourning Glory is like no other jam band around right now, their combination of jazz, fusion, and rock all mixed up with psychedelia is utterly unique and is not to be missed! Get on the bus!

Music Style jam-oriented psychedelic jazz fusion, funk, rock, blues, folk, bluegrass and of course...space!

Musical Influences Pink Floyd, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Ekoostik Hookah, The Shantee, The Beatles, String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band

Similar Artists Grateful Dead, Ekoostik Hookah, Jimi Hendrix, The Shantee, String Cheese Incident

Artist History Well, it all began back in the summer of 1963 deep in the Miami Valley of central Ohio…the air was thick but the tea was cold. This day was much like any other but little did these young pickers know, they were beginning a legacy, a new culture with a new sound, the beginning of what would later be known as the Glory Daze. Nate McPeek was sittin out on his front porch, sippin some of his mom’s famous tea, strumming his guitar when Chris Bingman walked on by looking for some good times and some relief from the heat. Nate offered Chris some tea and then the two started playin some familiar tunes with Nate on the guitar and Chris on the spoons, and occasionally the washboard. Suddenly a big green school bus rolled into town, saw the two jamming away and knew that destiny had sent him to the right place. Of course we know the driver to be called Chris Bonham who got out of his bus and strolled up to Nate and Chris, sat down, pulled out his ol’ guitar and joined the two. After a while, when the strings started getting good and hot and you could hear Nate belting it out some twenty miles away (as the story goes, they say), a small crowd gathered ‘round and the next thing you know Nate’s mom’s servin tea for twenty some long-haired hippie folk, then thirty, then it just plum got out of hand! After a while the boys had to take a break, of course, and the crowd went wild! They demanded to know who this new group was, and without even properly being introduced to one another one of the boys hollered out, “well, I reckon we’re the Mourning Glory Mountain Boys, what’d you say fellas?” and there was cheerin for three days after that! From that point on the boys got to know each other, grew to be best of buds and been playin music cross this good land for quite some time now. There ain’t no more history left, its just the future now, the future sound of now… Now, not to fool you, Mourning Glory isn’t really the Mourning Glory Mountain Boys but rather just Mourning Glory. Also, they don’t just play ol’ timey music, they have a whole repertoire of electric arrangements as well! Mourning Glory is a trio of music-inspired, living and breathing souls whose only desire is to spread the love of music across the nation (and world) to anyone willing to enjoy the beautiful music they produce. Acoustically they play a kaleidoscope of genres from folk to funk to blues to bluegrass, always putting their own unique spin on things. Some of the electric stylin’s they do are psychedelic jazz, fusion, funk, rock, blues, and some of the most beautiful psychedelic space one can image. Their true spirits can openly be seen when they reach that point of musical bliss when all of them are so together with one another that its like a musical orgy of the mind. Mourning Glory does not put on flashy, dramatized productions, they simply pour their heart and soul into every note and only ask in return the same love and appreciation that they give out.

Group Members Nate McPeek - guitar/lead vocals Chris Bonham - guitar/backup vocals Chris Bingman - drums/percussion

Instruments guitars (electric & acoustic), drums, percussion

Press Reviews "You guys are the reason I'm alive!" - anonymous visitor "You guys are fucking kick ass!" - guy at Jag's in Dayton "If you're tired of the cliche metal music in your local band scene, then the boys from Mourning Glory are the guys to check out. Their shows are spontaneous, their sound original, and their music is styling. Yes, Mourning Glory probably is the best thing to come out of Ohio since corn." - The Torch, Wittenberg U.'s newspaper "It sounds like you want to go crazy but you hold it back, I like it!" - some chick from a party in Kentucky "You guys sound like a mix between early [Pink] Floyd and the [Grateful] Dead." - first time listener from Akron, OH

Additional Info we love to play at festivals/parties/barmitzahs! give us a shout and we'd love to come out and play!

Location Springfield, OH - USA

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