This Week’s Musica Snowed Out

So much for the first day of Spring! You may recall that we call Bitter Liberals band practice “musica” so that we don’t have to say “practice.” By any name, there was none due to an actual real snow storm. About 4 inches of snow and still coming down pic.twitter.com/jFLk3uuyZt — noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 21, […]

Bitter Liberal Spotted Raising Money in NH

Fiddle player Gary McGraw, sometimes referred to as the hillbilly Mozart was recently spotted in San Francisco, Boston, Dublin NH, and Nuremberg. While in New Hampshire over his 52nd birthday, McGraw played a Where’s Aubrey fundraiser. Copied from apothecaryshed.com, this entry describes the show and its fundraising results. What’s the best way to celebrate birthday […]

A Review of the Bitter Liberals Bright Box Show

Special thanks and whatever post-facto bribery is necessary for our friend Keith Patterson who wrote a great review of our recent SOLD OUT show at the Bright Box for the Clarke County Observer. We have so much fun playing these shows, that we almost forget to pay attention. You can read the review (and share […]

On Cocktails and the Bitter Liberals

Rumor has it that our band is named after a cocktail. That’s at least partway true. Our “band cocktail” is called the Liberal. You can even see the Liberal represented graphically on our stickers. The only challenge with the Liberal is that it requires something called Amer Picon. Nobody imports that into the United States, […]

Where on earth is Clark Hansbarger?

Briefly spotted at a hot pink tourist trap somewhere way down south, Clark Hansbarger, Bitter Liberals songwriter and guitar player has disappeared from Castleman Road. Fortunately Clark took his guitar. All we can hope is that when he gets back he brings the band a bunch of new songs. (Surely, we don’t need any more […]

Secrets and Lies

There are two secrets. 1. You can already get tickets for our early summer Richmond show at the Tin Pan here http://bit.ly/BL-tinpan18. We love playing the Tin Pan. This week one of our favorite performers, Aimee Mann, played there. Here’s what we had to say about that on twitter: Pretty cool to know that @aimeemann […]

Pictures, Sounds, and Videos from The Bitter Liberals Sold Out Show 1.12.18 at the Bright Box

  Well, that was fun. The new configuration of the Bitter Liberals has proven itself to be popular, selling out the Bright Box in our first show together. Thanks to all who came. Here is a brand new song, written together with the band in 2017. It’s called Dreamcatcher. This is our debut performance.   […]