Astrograss
Bluegrass Band in the Hudson Valley
Since forming in 2003, Astrograss has been one of the Northeast’s most sought-after modern-style bluegrass bands, known for exceptional musicianship, engaging performances, and unmatched versatility. Led by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jordan Shapiro, the group brings together some of the region’s finest acoustic musicians to create a sound that is authentic yet effortlessly adaptable to any setting.
Performances & Venues
Astrograss has performed at leading venues and festivals including the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, South by Southwest, Joe’s Pub, BAM Harvey Theatre, BB King’s Blues Club, Symphony Space, The Mercury Lounge, and The Living Room – as well of hundreds of private events throughout the Northeast, from elegant weddings and corporate functions to family celebrations and community gatherings.
CUSTOMIZABLE LINEUPS & REPERTOIRE
Available as a 3-, 4-, or 5-piece ensemble, Astrograss tailors its lineup and repertoire to suit each occasion. Their performances can feature everything from traditional fiddle tunes and bluegrass standards to creative covers spanning multiple eras of popular music, including contemporary hits, to classical music arranged by Shapiro for bluegrass instruments. Able to fulfill requests from guests of all ages and provide high-energy entertainment or tasteful background music, Astrograss is professional, adaptable, and well suited to a variety of events.
MUSIC & STYLE
With three full-length original albums and a deep catalog of traditional and modern favorites, Astrograss brings warmth, artistry and joy to every stage they play.
Songlist
The following list is by no means complete; it provides a sampling of some of our staple songs, as well as some special requests from past events. We are happy to honor nearly any special request.
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Beacon (Ross Martin)
Big Country (Bela Fleck)
Eye of the Hurricane (David Grier)
Land's End (Tim O'Brien)
The Landing (Bela Fleck)
Short Trip Home (Edgar Meyer)
Overgrown Waltz (Bela Fleck)
Slopes (Bela Fleck)
Gator Strut (Mike Marshall)
Homer the Roamer (John Hartford)
Song for a Winter's Night (Edgar Meyer)
Spanish Point (Bela Fleck)
Sunset Road (Bela Fleck)
When Joy Kills Sorrow (Bela Fleck)
Wilson Bridge (Matt Flinner) -
Beauty of My Dreams
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Coat of Many Colors
Colleen Malone
Country Roads
Eight More Miles To Louisville
El Paso
Folsom Prison Blues
Fox on the Run
Freeborn Man
The Gambler
Gentle on my Mind
Ginseng Sullivan
Good Hearted Woman
Handsome Molly
High On a Mountain
Hobo Song
How Mountain Girls Can Love
I Know You Rider
I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
In the Gravel Yard
I've Endured
John Hardy
Jolene
Kentucky Waltz
Little Georgia Rose
Little Maggie
Lonesome Fiddle Blues
Love Please Come Home
Man of Constant Sorrow
Midnight Moonlight
Mr. Bojangles
Nellie Kane
Nine Pound Hammer
Pig in a Pen
Ring of Fire
Rocky Top
Salty Dog Blues
Shady Grove
Sitting On Top of the World
Steam Powered Aereo Plane
The Old Home Place
Uncle Pen
Whiskey Before Breakfast
Willin’
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
You Don't Know My Mind -
Bach, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Chorale from Cantata BMV 147)
Bach, Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 I. Prélude
Bach, Sheep May Safely Graze
(from "Hunting Cantata" BMV 208)
Clarke, Trumpet Tune (aka Purcell's Trumpet Tune)
Corelli, Violin Sonata Op. 5, #9 (Allegro, poco moderato)
Handel, Alla Hornpipe (from "Water Music: Suite in F major)
Handel - Concerto Grosso Op. 6, #12
(Aria - Larghetto e piano)
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
(from "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
Mozart - Serenade #13 for Strings, K. 525
("Eine Kleine Nachtmusik")
Mozart - Wedding March from "Marriage of Figaro"
Pachelbel - Canon in D major
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances
(Suite III, #1 - Ignoto: Italiana)
Saint-Saents - Le Cygne (The Swan)
Vivaldi - Spring:Allegro from The Four Seasons
Wagner - Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" -
Hava Nagilah
Mazel Tov
Dovid Melech
Ki Va Moed
Avenu Shalom Aleichem
Ya'Aseh Shalom
Dodi Li
NY Psycho Freylekhs (Klezmatics)
Mezinke
Der Gasn Nigun
Der Heyser Bulgar
Tantz, Tantz, Yidelkh
Kalinka
Ederlezi
Sunrise Sunset -
Ireland's Green Shore
The Wild Rover
The Irish Rover
I'll Tell Me Ma
Leaving of Liverpool
Newry Highwayman
Nancy Whiskey
Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Star of County Down
Jolly Beggerman
Whiskey in the Jar
Courtin' in the Kitchen
All For Me Grog
Auld Triangle
Galway Girl
Beggerman
Lakes of Ponchartrain
McIlhatton
Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
Black Velvet Band
She Moved Through the Fair
Streams of Whiskey
Fields of Athenry
Donegal Danny
Rare Old Mountain Dew
Danny Boy
Fiddler's Green
Do You Love an Apple
Whisky, You're the Devil
Rare Old Mountain Dew
Dirty Old Town
Fairytale of New York -
Africa (Toto)
Airline to Heaven (Wilco/Woody Guthrie)
All I Want is You [from 'Juno'] (Barry Lewis Polistar)
All You Need is Love (Beatles)
America (Simon & Garfunkel)
Amie (Pure Prairie League)
Angela (The Lumineers)
Anything You Want, You Got It (Roy Orbison)
Atlantic City (Bruce / The Band)
Apeman (The Kinks)
Baby, Now That I've Found You (Allison Krauss/The Foundations)
Backwards Down Number Line (Phish)
Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
Bathroom Light (Mt. Joy)
Blame it on the Boogie (Jackson 5)
Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis)
Boogie On Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder)
Book of Love (Magnetic Fields)
Box of Rain (Grateful Dead)
Bright Side of the Road (Van Morrison)
Build Me Up Buttercup
By and By (Caamp)
Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers)
California Stars (Wilco/Billy Bragg)
Can't Get U Out of My Head (K. Minogue)
The Cave (Mumford and Sons)
'Cause I Love You (Johnny Cash/June Carter)
Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkle)
Chicken Fried (Zac Brown Band)
Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls)
Come On Eileen (Dixie's Midnight Runners)
Comes a Time (Neil Young)
Could You Be Loved (Bob Marley)
Crazy (Patsy Cline)
Dancing in the Moonlight
Danny's Song (Loggins & Messina)
Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)
Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
Down By the Water (Decemberists)
Emmylou (First Aid Kit)
Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen)
Feathered Indians (Tyler Childers)
First Day of My Life (Bright Eyes)
Fly (Nick Drake)
Forever in Blue Jeans (Neil Diamond)
Freedom '90 (George Michael)
Friend of the Devil (Dead)
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon (Neil Diamond)
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Golden (My Morning Jacket)
Got to Get You Into My Life (Beatles)
Happy Together (Turtles)
Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
Here Comes Your Man (The Pixies)
Hesitating Beauty (Wilco/Billy Bragg)
Home (Edward Sharpe)
Ho Hey (Lumineers)
How Sweet It Is (Marvin Gaye)
I Choose You (Steeldrivers)
I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Scissor Sisters)
I Got You At the end of the century (Wilco)
I Hope I Don't Fall in Love With You
(Tom Waits)
I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles)
I'm Looking Through You (Beatles)
I've Just Seen A Face (Beatles)
I Want to Dance With Somebody (Whitney)
I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles)
I Will Wait (Mumford and Sons)
If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt)
If I Were a Carpenter (Johnny Cash/June Carter)
If Not For You (Dylan)
In My Life (Beatles)
In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine)
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)
I'll Follow You Into the Dark (Death Cab)
I'm the Man Who Loves You (Wilco)
In a Big Country (Big Country)
January Wedding (Avett Brothers)
Jesus, Etc. (Wilco)
June Hymn (Decemberists)
Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
Kids Don't Stand a Chance (Vampire Weekend)
Kiss (Prince)
Kodachrome (Paul Simon)
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
Let's Give 'Em Something To Talk About (Bonnie Rait)
Life During Wartime (Talking Heads)
Like a Prayer (Madonna)
Little Lion Man (Mumford and Sons)
Live To Tell (Madonna)
Littlest Birds (Be Good Tanyas/Jolie Holland)
Long Time Gone (Dixie Chicks)
Look at Miss Ohio (Gillian Welch)
Looking Out My Back Door (Creedence)
Love Vigilantes (New Order)
Love Train (The O'Jays)
Lovin' In Your Baby's Eyes (Taj Mahal)
Mandolin Wind (Rod Stewart)
Material Girl (Madonna)
Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Mushaboom (Feist)
No Expectations (Rolling Stones)
Northern Sky (Nick Drake)
Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da (Beatles)
On Melancholy Hill (Gorillaz)
Ooh La La (The Faces)
Our House (CSNY)
Power of Two (Indigo Girls)
Proud Mary
Pump up the Jam (Technotronic)
Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Rag Mama Rag (The Band)
Rain (Beatles)
Raspberry Beret (Prince)
Real Love Baby (Father John Misty)
Rocket Man (Elton John)
Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac)
September Gurls (Big Star)
Shake it Off (Taylor Swift)
She's Got the Look (Roxette)
Signed Sealed Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
Silver Lining (Mt. Joy)
So Lonely (The Police)
Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)
Soul Meets Body (Death Cab For Cutie)
Stick Season (Noah Kahan)
Still The One (Orleans)
Such Great Heights (Postal Service)
Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead)
Sugaree (Grateful Dead)
Sussudio (Phil Collins)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
Sweet Child of Mine (Guns 'n Roses)
Sweet Virginia (Rolling Stones)
Swept Away (Avett Brothers)
Swimming Song (Loudon Wainwright III)
Take It Easy (Eagles)
Teach Your Children (CSNY)
Thank God I'm a Country Boy (John Denver)
Thank You For Being a Friend (Andrew Gold)
They Love Each Other (Grateful Dead)
These Days (Jackson Browne)
This Must Be the Place (Talking Heads)
Top of The World (Carpenters)
Umbrella (Rhianna)
Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead)
Wading in the Velvet Sea (Phish)
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow)
We Will Become Silhouettes (Postal Service)
Waiting on a Friend (Rolling Stones)
Waste (Phish)
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (Billy Bragg)
The Weight (The Band)
What a Wonderful World
What the World Needs Now is Love
When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan)
White Wedding (Billy Idol)
Whitehouse Road (Tyler Childers)
With Or Without You (U2)
Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
Wildflowers (Tom Petty)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
With a Little Help from My Friends
Yer So Bad (Tom Petty)
You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)
You Love the Thunder (Jackson Browne)
You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry)
Your Direction (Goose)