Greensky Bluegrass Announce New EP ‘The Iceland Sessions’ Featuring Holly Bowling

Greensky Bluegrass will issue a new EP, The Iceland Sessions, featuring keyboardist Holly Bowling, on May 10 via Thirty Tigers. The collaboration dubbed “6reensky” captured the record when GSBG held a Camp Greensky destination event in Iceland last year.

Camp Greensky Iceland took place in Reykjavik at Eldborg Hall, part of the Harpa Concert and Conference Centre, June 3 – 5, 2023.

“We invited some of our favorite friends and musicians to play with us, including Holly Bowling, and we set out to make memories in the twilight sun with a bunch of fans who joined us from all over the world,” GSBG mandolinist Paul Hoffman recalled of Camp Greensky Iceland in press materials for The Iceland Sessions.

Just ahead of the Reykjavik run, Greensky Bluegrass – Hoffman, guitarist Dave Bruzza, banjo player Michael Arlen Bont, bassist Mike Devol and dobro player Anders Beck — plus Bowling decamped to Flóki Studios in the wilds of Northern Iceland to capture some magic. Hoffman detailed the sessions:

“We embraced the disorienting inspiration and played late into the night as the sun never left us, all the while still developing lyrics and figuring out harmonies and arrangements. We swam in the cold water. We saw more sheep than people for days. We listened to the birds sing through the night while we charged through each song. A recording project that felt like a whirlwind at times turned into something calm and peaceful that felt more creative and raw than anything we’ve done before. Fully aware that we could continue to work on this later, we decided to commit to what we created in Iceland and have the recording be truly a moment in time.”

Following the release of The Iceland Sessions (preorder) on May 10 and a trio of May festival plays, Greensky Bluegrass kick off their summer tour on June 6 in Kansas City. Find their full tour routing, along with Holly Bowling’s, below.