For most of Greensky Bluegrass’s career, “Reverend” was the kind of song that belonged to the room — a fan-favorite played live for twenty-five years before anyone thought to record it. On XXV, their 2025 twenty-fifth anniversary retrospective, it finally made it to tape, with Billy Strings helping them put it there. That kind of patience, letting something live in performance that long without feeling the need to fix it to a record, tells you more about this five-piece from Kalamazoo than any press quote could.
About the Show
XXV serves as a career-spanning retrospective: thirteen tracks reaching across Greensky’s discography, each reimagined with a collaborator drawn from the roots world — Sam Bush, Nathaniel Rateliff, Aoife O’Donovan, Lindsay Lou, Ivan Neville, Holly Bowling among them. Glide Magazine called it “one of the most intriguing entries into Greensky’s sprawling discography,” crediting the band’s own growth as the force that gave each old song new life. Rolling Stone has credited them with “representing the genre for a whole new generation”; Billboard praised their “layered, thought-provoking songcraft.” Glide also positions them as having been “at the forefront of the burgeoning modern progressive bluegrass scene, paving the way for generational acts like Billy Strings” (which tracks, if you’ve been paying attention to where progressive acoustic music has been going for the last decade).
Paul Hoffman (mandolin), Dave Bruzza (guitar), Anders Beck (dobro), Michael Arlen Bont (banjo), and Mike Devol (upright bass) have been playing together since the mid-2000s, forming the stable core of a band that got its start in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2000. That steadiness is unusual in any genre and genuinely remarkable in one built around improvisation. They came to bluegrass, by their own account, “through the back door,” with rock influences shaping how they first heard acoustic instruments. Both If Sorrows Swim (2014) and All For Money (2019) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums Chart. The clearest measure of their live following: three consecutive sold-out nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, described in their own biography as “a feat unheard of in their genre.”
Venue & Logistics
Sherman Theater is at 524 Main Street in Stroudsburg, in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania, a natural draw for Hudson Valley audiences and a regular stop on the winter touring circuit for bands who work this region year-round. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; the show begins at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets
General admission is $39 in advance or $44 day of show. Balcony seating is available to Sherman Theater members at $44 advance or $49 day of show; VIP box and skybox options are also offered. All prices exclude applicable fees. The show is all ages; guests must be 21 or older to consume alcohol. Buy tickets