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March 9, 2010 The NitPickers are performing at the American Red Cross Benefit to be held in Lewiston at the Franco-American Heritage Center. The event is currently slated for Friday, April 30th. As always, we will keep the schedule page up to date and post any changes here as well.The band will also be appearing main stage at "The Dempsey Challenge" in early October. The Pickers got a copy of their recent appearance on the "207 Show" from a tech-savvy fan. You can download it here: NitPickers on 207 Show (WARNING - it's 34 MB's big so don't try this at home with dial-up!) Feb 10, 2010 The NitPickers played a standing room only performance at their CD Release Party at "She Doesn't Like Guthrie's" in Lewiston last week. Attendance was helped by their recent performance on the "207 Show" and and a nice article about the band in the Lewiston Sun Journal. They have been invited to perform again on "207" later this summer and they are back at Guthrie's on April 17th!Jan 15, 2010 The NitPickers will appear on the nightly magazine show "207" on WCSH Channel 6 Portland, ME at 7:00pm on Friday, January 29th. They will be performing several original songs.Set your DVR's and check out the band without leaving the comfort of your own home. See what you've been missing! Dec 15, 2009 The NitPickers are very excited to have been chosen as one of five final contestants in the Podunk Bluegrass Festival Band Competition.Podunk is one of the premiere bluegrass festivals in New England... this years headliners include Ricky Skaggs, Hot Buttered Rum, The Gibson Bros, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper and Rhonda Vincent! The 'Pickers will perform a set on Saturday on the B stage and then play on Main stage for the competition. Come on down to Connecticut to root for Maine's fastest rising Bluegrass band. Dec 12, 2009 The NitPickers CD Release Parties!!The band now has two CD Release Parties booked, one in Hallowell and one in Lewiston. There'll be lots of bluegrass music, prizes, fun, and new NitPicker CDs for sale. Check the Schedule page for details on these and other upcoming shows! Oct 21, 2009 The leaves are falling here in Maine but wait... what's this?... a new CD creatively entitled.. The NitPickers?
June 1, 2009 Hey, we survived the Winter and now Summer is looming again finally! October 1, 2008 The summer festival season is over and the "Pickers" are heading back to the bars for the cold weather season. The band will be playing regularly in the Hallowell area throughout the Winter and it might be time to dust off your skis out there... The NitPickers are Playing at The Rack at Sugarloaf in December... Bluegrass and white snow!!
September 20, 2008 The NitPickers will be playing a benefit and silent auction for the Brain Injury Association of Maine (biame.org) next Friday night at 6pm hosted by O'Donal's Nurseries in Gorham. Please come and support this wonderful organization and bid on the beautiful items.
July 28, 2008 After playing in the bars in the Capital area all winter and spring, the NitPickers moved on to playing Bluegrasss Festivals and private parties most of the summer. The Pickers played an awesome set at the Ossipee Valley Bluegrass Festival this last week and have also been hired to play at Blistered Fingers Festival next June. They even played a Bluegrass Gospel Service in Gorham one stormy Sunday morning. July 17, 2008 The NitPickers were featured in the Lifestyle section of this weeks Capital Weekly.
Download and read it here... February 6, 2008 Hot off the Presses!!!... The NitPickers have hired an engineer and will be recording a Live CD at The Wharf on March 9th. Come on out and bring some friends and get your cheering voices on the new CD!! Check out the Schedule page for other upcoming performance dates. January 11, 2008 Well, the ink is drying on the below-mentioned club dates in Hallowell... You will be able to catch The NitPickers at least once a month over the next three months in the "Little Easy". The Wharf is resurrecting their "Cabin Fever Sundays" and the Pickers are helpin them launch it... Come out and bring some friends. January 6, 2008 The NitPickers played a 30 minute Showcase at Higher Grounds last night to a "Standing Room Only" crowd of enthusiastic music lovers and local Hallowell bar owners. Not only did they rock the house... but they got several gigs from it! You could see the toes a tappin' and heads a bobbin' around the room. You can catch them next at The Wharf on Sunday, January 27th from 4-7pm. C'mon down and bring some friends... show your support to make this a regular gig!! at last... Bluegrass in the Capital area! January 2, 2008 Back to the Barrooms again! The NitPickers will be opening for the Pat Pepin Project Saturday January, 5th. at Higher Grounds in Hallowell. Pat and her harmonica player, Tommy O'Connell, recently won the Maine Blues Association Duo of the year competition and this is their last performance before heading to Memphis to represent Maine in the Nationals. Come out and help give them a big sendoff! The NitPickers will go on around 7:30pm November 16, 2007 The NitPickers have finished their demo... It's called "Warts and All" and can be found on this site by clicking the Music link to the left. They recorded traditional, original and newgrass tunes this time around to show off their varied repertoire. The seven tunes were recorded around a single microphone so it's the real deal. And it sounds pretty darn good... Give 'em a listen! I also hear they may be performing in Hallowell soon... stay tuned for details. November 1, 2007 Well our crimefighters are at it again... This time they decided the best way to sharpen the songs and work Rick, the new banjo player, in was to take some of the songs into the studio and lay them down live around a single mic... so, they will finally be getting some samples up on that music page... You should start seeing some of those posted in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned!! psst... There is a rumour of gigs on the horizon too! October 3, 2007 The NitPickers are complete!! They have just welcomed a new banjo player to the band... His name is Rick Dale and he brings more than 30 years of banjo experience to the NitPickers. Formerly with North Fork out of Pennsylvania, Rick moved to the area about a year ago and has been looking for the right group to join. After a chance meeting in a Hallowell club, Rick came and jammed with the Pickers and what a fit! Rick also sings and writes. Look for his pic and bio here within a week or so. He will be joining the NitPickers in the studio in a few weeks and we all look forward to hearing the results... WELCOME RICK! September 16, 2007 Those crazy bluegrassers were at it again this weekend. Just when we thought the bluegrass season was over, The NitPickers were asked to replace "The Grassholes" at the Acres of Wildlife Bluegrass Festival in Steep Falls, Maine. The afternoon show was held inside because of a rain shower and it had a feel more like a rowdy barroom than a bluegrass festival. They moved back to the outside amphitheater for the evening show. Our pickin' pals appeared alongside The Hemingway Bros., The Saccarappa Boys and Muddy Marsh Ramblers and a wicked good time was had by all. September 9, 2007 The NitPickers appeared on the main stage yesterday at The Paul Bunyan Bluegrass Festival in Bangor, Maine. They won a contest held Friday night among a number of other bands that were field pickin' around their evening campfires. A group of judges, including the festival promoter and the festival emcee among others, traveled around the festival and chose the best bands to appear on the mainstage on Saturday afternoon. The NitPickers were a hit! Also...............The NitPickers have a MYSPACE! check it out at http://www.myspace.com/thenitpickers |