Greensky Bluegrass Spreads The Love With Fruition On New Year’s Eve In Denver

Greensky Bluegrass celebrated New Year’s Eve on Tuesday night with a concert at The Mission Ballroom in Denver. Fruition opened and joined GSBG to ring in 2025 by performing a string of songs with “love” in the title.

Greensky went with “Old Barns” to start their first of two sets. The jamgrass quintet went heavy on staples throughout the rest of the frame, including “Leap Year,” “Distracted,” “Take Cover” and “Living Over.” A take on the old bluegrass gem “How Mountain Girls Can Love” was the lone cover of the opening stanza.

The band opened the second set with “Reasons To Stay” from their latest album, 2022’s Stress Dreams. Greensky then treated fans to favorites “All Four,” “A Letter To Seymour” and “In Control” before running through “All For Money.”

Guitarist Dave Bruzza led the band on oldie “Kerosene” as the clock started to approach midnight. The intense original featured plenty of fretboard fireworks and spanned over 10 minutes. Dobroist Anders Beck addressed the crowd at the end of the song while his bandmates vamped. He brought out Fruition members keyboardist Kellen Asebroek, guitarists Jay Cobb Anderson and Mimi Naja and drummer Tyler Thompson to share the stage.

Beck welcomed “Father Time” to greet fans and provide the countdown to 2025. “Baby New Year” emerged as the assembled musicians performed the traditional “Auld Lang Syne.” Greensky Bluegrass and Fruition (sans bassist Jeff Leonard at the time) began reeling off love songs with covers of Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “Turn On Your Lovelight” and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” Both hadn’t been performed by GSBG since 2017.

Vocalist Megan Letts joined the fray for “Power Of Love,” a Huey Lewis & The News classic Greensky previously played just once on Halloween 2012. Fruition’s Jeff Leonard then replaced Mike Devol on bass as the ensemble performed Bill Withers’ 1972 hit “Kissing My Love.” Naja handled lead vocals on what was a GSBG debut. Devol returned while Leonard provided percussion on a set-closing cover of Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved.”

Watch Greensky Bluegrass & Fruition ring in 2025 with love via fan-shot video below:

Setlist (via PT GSBG)

Set One: Old Barns, Leap Year, Distracted, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Take Cover, Past My Prime, Entirely Mine, Living Over

Set Two: Reasons to Stay, All Four, A Letter to Seymour, In Control, All for Money, Kerosene, Auld Lang Syne [1], Turn On Your Lovelight [1], Whole Lotta Love [1], The Power of Love [1] [2], Kissing My Love [1] [3] [4] [5], Could You Be Loved [1] [4]

Encore: Run or Die

• [1] – w/ Jay Cobb Anderson, Kellen Asebroek, Mimi Naja, Tyler Thompson
• [2] – w/ Megan Letts
• [3] – first time played
• [4] – Jeff Leonard (bass)
• [5] – no Devol