Whiskey Treaty Roadshow
The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow is a long-running collaborative band that brings together four Massachusetts-based singer-songwriters in the vein of Americana, rock ’n’ roll, folk and roots music for one of the best foot-stomping, instrument-swapping, song-trading live shows around.
Reese Fulmer & The Carriage House Band
Reese Fulmer & The Carriage House Band have become one of the fastest-rising roots music groups in upstate NY with expansive albums highlighting a reputation for compelling performances. With its rotating cast of talented players, a broad and dynamic body of work, and a refusal to set anything in stone, Carriage House Band shows are always fresh, full of joy, and hard to describe. Think Wilco with hints of Prine and Zappa: "smart, emotionally tuned arrangements and a stage presence that balanced earnestness with unpredictability.
The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow is made up of Massachusetts-based songwriters Tory Hanna, Chris Merenda, Greg Daniel Smith, and David Tanklefsky. For over 10 years, the band has thrilled regional and national audiences with its high energy live shows, earning them slots at acclaimed festivals, including Green River Fest, Fresh Grass, The Rock Boat, Levitate Flannel Jam, Strange Creek, Wormtown, The Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival, and the Black Bear Music Festival. The Treaty has been nominated for three New England Music Awards for Best Roots Act, winning the award in 2022.
Originally founded as an offshoot of the Whiskey Treaty Festival, which took place in the early 2010’s in Greenfield, Mass., the “roadshow” was a four-night run from western Mass. to Boston undertaken by the singer-songwriters who would form the band in the summer of 2014. But a short-form documentary about the project began earning recognition at regional film festivals, inspiring the group to continue playing together. The band quickly built a devoted following with its foot-stomping, instrument-swapping, song-trading live show.
A Reese Fulmer & The Carriage House Band live performance thrives in the liminal space between genres folk, Americana, jazz and the result is a sound that’s complex without being convoluted." (NYSMusic) First cutting his teeth in the music business as a manager of the iconic Saratoga Springs listening room Caffe Lena, Reese Fulmer has established himself both as a talented songwriter with an uncommon depth of language and a bandleader unafraid of taking risks and carving a new path between genres with "propulsive grooves like the cozy acoustic power-glide of “Workingman’s Dead.” (Michael Hochanadel)