Welcome to the Sunny South Bluegrass Band website. Sunny South is a bluegrass band playing in the Portland, Oregon area. They have been playing together in various configurations for over 30 years and cover a wide range of bluegrass styles and eras. The Sunny South started with Mike Stahlman and Dave Elliott playing music with Sunny Hammond and Tygh Trachsel. They played all over the pacific northwest and became well known. Now Sunny South is a 5 piece group with some new faces.
Howdy Friends,
We have been busy over here at the Sunny South corporate headquarters... Busy digitizing more great music to share. This time we have the first Sunny South recording done in 1980. This was digitized from it's original format cassette. There's some great playing and we hope you enjoy. Go ahead and check it out on our music page.
We added a couple more shows to the calendar so please check that out as well and we look forward to seeing you all soon.
Sincerely,
Sunny South
We recently digitized our album, "Another Sight Of Home" featuring all members of the original band, recorded in 1987. We have the first two tracks added to the website on our Music page, so please check them out. We hope to add the rest of the tracks soon! Enjoy and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming shows.
Sincerely,
Sunny South Bluegrass Band (SSBB)
Hey folks,
We are just getting things off the ground after all enduring a long pandemic that we are still struggling with. We have decided to merge The Loafers and Sunny South into one wonderful band. We are going to be using the name Sunny South now. We are working on getting updated information, shows, music and merchandise out to you soon.
Thanks!
Sunny South
Sunny South will be delivering the goods to people at the Farmer's Market. Come on down, get your goodies and listen to some bluegrass. It will be good for you, I promise and the music is free!
Winlock Pickersfest is an acoustic music festival that covers a diverse selection of musical genres (i.e., Swing, Choro, Bluegrass, Old-Time, Celtic, Cowboy, etc.) The festival includes instructional workshops, genre jams, open mics, plenty of picking and grinning, organized kids activities, lots of unorganized jamming of different genres, and other activities. Check out the rest of our website to see details about the live bands, the workshop schedule, camping details, ticket info, links, and much more.
Note, Sunny South plays at 7 pm on Friday and 6 pm on Saturday. Plus we will be hanging out at the festival and picking so let's get together and play some tunes.