Cole Quest and The City Pickers
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Cole Quest and The City Pickers are a group of New York City musicians connected by friendship and a love of bluegrass. Cole Quest, grandson of the folk icon Woody Guthrie, has brought together a collection of eclectic pickers who have gained recognition on the local scene. Performing both Quest's original tunes as well as traditional favorites, The City Pickers bring their special brand of high-s
03/01/2024
📽 New unreleased original song here 👧 This is a live performance from 2023's Summer Hoot The Ashokan Center
Cole Quest and The City Pickers - She Talks A Lot (and I Like It) // Pewter Sessions Cole Quest and The City Pickers perform an original song, She Talks A Lot (and I Like It) live from the 2023 Summer Hoot at the on August 26th...
21/12/2023
2024’s right around the corner. I wonder what the new year will bring 🤔 🧐
🎨: Dana Manon Filsinger
13/12/2023
Thinking back to the warmer days of summer when we played @ The Ashokan Center at the Summer Hoot, here's our boy Christian Apuzzo singing the late John Hartford song's, In Tall Buildings 🌇
🎥: Inna Ivanovskaya
Cole Quest and The City Pickers - In Tall Buildings // Pewter Sessions // Live @ Ashokan Center Cole Quest and The City Pickers perform John Hartford's In Tall Buildings live at the Summer Hoot festival, as part of their Pewter Sessions, at the Ashokan ...
25/08/2023
This weekend is gonna be a HOOT. Looking forward to at the . On Saturday we’ll be playing a short Pewter Shop Session at 12:00pm, and a full set on the main stage at 5:30pm.
The festival is great in many ways including their pricing model of “Pay-what-you-can" tickets, which are available at the gate. No one will be turned away for lack of funds! See you at the 🦉🪕
11/08/2023
10/08/2023
These boys are hittin the road 🚦this Thursday for a long weekend of music! They’ll be stopping in CT, MA, and NY so if you live in one of those states you’re close by and should be there 😇. See you out there!
August 10 // Goshen, CT //
August 11 // Stockbridge, MA // @ the Red Lion Inn
August 12 // Keene, NY // East Branch Friends of the Arts
August 13 // Schroon Lake, NY // Adirondack Folk Festival
📸: anonymous in front of Ludwig Von Beethovens house in Bonn
02/08/2023
For his birthday, we thought we’d share a small piece of the many styles 💇♂️and looks 👨🎤 of our amazingly talented ! He’s been a structural part of the city pickers since our genesis and with every passing day puts his heart and soul into everything we do. We couldn’t imagine who we’d be without our trusty flatpickin, lonesome sound singin 🎤, hard rockin 🤘, cowboy hat wearin🤠, crowd pleasin, arrangin, idea man.
Please help us wish a big happy birthday to our boy Christian! 🥳🍾🎂🤠
Make sure to go to his jam tonight at 6:30pm and wish him HBD in person.
14/07/2023
Since today is Woody’s birthday, we thought we’d share a few more of .fauzia beautiful photos from our show with our buddy 🪗
We played a few songs from his album Ticky Tock ⏰ that is comprised of Woody lyrics that set to music (and translated into German!) including his beautiful version of Die Erdie ist da für Dich und mich, aka This Land is Your Land.
📸: .fauzia
13/07/2023
Just got a few snaps from our show at from the wonderfully talented .fauzia 🤩
📸 : .fauzia
Well Rudolstadt festival that was incredible ❤️❤️. We had an utterly amazing time and a warm welcome that will be unforgettable for us. A magical place buried in a small beautiful town in Germany.
Big thanks to Rudolstadt Festival , Deutschlandfunk and MDR Kulture Radio for having us 👏🙏
More to come soon 🇩🇪
Who likes to stay Home With Daddy? We had a blast in Einsinach playing at the oldest jazz club in Germany Jazzclub Eisenach. We had the honor to jam with our new friend Wenzel WENZEL. He has an album of all-Woody lyrics called "Ticky Tock" and heres one of our favorite tracks off of that, "| Like To Stay Home With Daddy".
03/07/2023
Cole Quest & The City Pickers verzücken Eisenach Am Ende tanzt das Publikum im hinteren Bereich und in den Gängen des wunderschönen Veranstaltungskellers in der Alten Mälzerei in Eisenach. Nach dem Support-Act des legendären Liedermachers Wenzel hatten Cole Quest & The City Pickers das Publikum im Sturm erobert und am vergangenen Samstag (1. J...
01/07/2023
Heute Abend ist Wenzel bei dem Konzert von "Cole Quest and The City Pickers" in Eisenach als musikalischer Gast dabei.
01.07.23 um 20 Uhr
Wenzel Solo bei "Cole Quest And The City Pickers"
Jazzklub Eisenach
Palmental 1
99817 Eisenach
Cole Quest and The City Pickers
Thank you WABE! Heres our boi Matheus Verardino singing Raul Seixas So Pra Variar and the Germans lovin it 🇧🇷🇩🇪
Tonight we head to Lübben to play at the
Christian Apuzzo Cole Quest Rotante Mike Mulhollan Craig Akin
28/06/2023
✨ Diese Woche in der WABE ✨
📌 Heute machen Cole Quest and The City Pickers im Rahmen ihrer Deutschlandtournee Station in der WABE und bringen fabelhaften Bluegrass aus New York mit.
➡️ https://www.wabe-berlin.info/jun-2023/28/
📌 Am Donnerstag begrüßt Chansonnier Rainer Bielfeldt in seiner Reihe "Bielfeldts Begegnungen" den Jazz-Shootingstar Atrin Madani
➡️"Bielfeldts Begegnungen" – zu Gast: Atrin Madani
📌 Am Freitag gehört die Bühne unserem Gewinner von Arno Zillmers Open Mic in der WABE Berlin 2022: Tito Maffay
➡️ https://www.wabe-berlin.info/jun-2023/30
📌 Zum Abschluss der WABE-Saison bringt die Musikschule tomatenklang spacigen Rock ins Haus.
➡️ https://www.wabe-berlin.info/jul-2023/01/
First Germany gig in the books at the Kamp Open Air Festival. These folks are really into the banjo , I tell you what. Our new friend Wenzel had an amazing set and introduced us to many new friends and fans. Danke shon to y'all! Hitting the road for many more shows. Cottbus, Dresden, and Berlin coming up next.
22/06/2023
✈️ And we’re off! 🇩🇪 As we travel through Germany we’ll be selling these one of a kind tour posters made by !
This beautiful piece of art is a mixed media - collage (Westways & LIFE magazines from 50’s-70’s), watercolor and pen/ink on canvas including hand lettering to give it that hand crafted look and feel.
We’ll be selling these at all shows on our and include embedded show dates in the border!
We’re so grateful for all of Danas hard work and looking forward to sharing these with you all!
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07/06/2023
NYC: a chance to catch our set before we shove off for Germany! Tomorrow night (June 8) we’ll be at sharing the show with the great songster . We have a slew of new material we’re excited to share with y’all. Doors at 7:30, show starts at 8pm. Suggested $12 donation.
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05/06/2023
Here’s a few of the many (reliable) faces of our star banjo player . No one (in our band) can pick with the tone and tude of our boy Banjo Mike. We love getting to make music with him and look forward to many more hours of staring at that big bearded, hat wearin, scruggs style pickin, straight faced man from across the stage.
Happy (belated) Birthday Banjo Mike! 🎉 ❤️❤️❤️
31/05/2023
Nächste Guthrie-Generation auf Deutschlandtour Cole Quest and the City Pickers
24/04/2023
🚨Deutschelandtournee 2023 dates! 📆
Send your friends, sends your foes, send your family to our shows. We’ll be dancing, we’ll be singing, Cologne cathedral’s bells will be ringing 🔔. If its dobro or the banjo that you just cant get enough, come to Dresden, come to Bonn, come to Bad Honnef 🪕. If your close to Ludwegsfelde, Cottbus or even Lübben, come for the harmonies, maybe we’ll sing the brothers Louvin 🧑🎤👨🎤. If its too far to travel to Kamp or Eisenach, we’ll be back in July for you to see us dance and sing and rock 🤘🤘
All dates and additional details are available on our website colequest.com 🕸️
22/04/2023
🇩🇪 Deutschland here we come! We’re excited to announce we’ll be jumping on a ✈️ in June to head over to Germany for a few weeks of festivals, local venues and a house concert too.
We’re looking forward to bringing some of our favorite American musics across the pond and hopefully bringing back some Deutschland diddies for all our friends at home. 🪕
Dates are available on our website but we’ll also post them here soon! Stay tuned for more 📻
06/11/2022
14/10/2022
Tomorrow night we’re at 💜🥳, there will be workshops 🪚, great food 🥘 , great music 🎶 and its only in NJ, wow 🤩. See ya there!
15/08/2022
Whos ready to have some fun this weekend 🤡? We’ll be in the Berkshires on Friday and up north to Keene, NY on Saturday. Spread the word!
Friday August 19 // 8pm //
Saturday August 20 // 8pm // Keene Valley Congregational Church
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