2012 Best Bluegrass Band in St. Louis to Visit East Peoria at Meadows Ave Tap on 12/15/12

Peoria, IL, December 10, 2012 --(PR.com)-- On Saturday, December 15th at 8:00 PM, CornStar Promotions of Pekin, IL and Meadows Ave Tap will host one of the hottest rising bluegrass groups on the Midwestern map. This no-cover charge show will be held at Meadows Ave Tap in East Peoria. Elemental Shakedown members hail from all over the country and find themselves now in the midst of a Midwest bluegrass boom. At their engagements you hear both traditional and very not-so traditional breakdowns and jams of old & new school favorites. The result is that you find yourself very much engaged in the unfolding performance.

Traditions in bluegrass may be as old as St. Louis, however Elemental Shakedown isn't satisfied with being a museum piece. The band members of the band have backgrounds in music about as diverse as the hometowns that helped develop them. They inject into Midwest bluegrass — which often pits purists against progressives — a sorely desired boom of creative energy. After a few years of developing as artists and arranging well-known favorites as bluegrass tunes, Chris Helmick (guitar), Matt Flory upright bass) and fiddler phenom Alyssa Avery brought on two long-standing St. Louis area music vets to grab the reins of standard bluegrass instruments. They hit the jackpot, with Bob Stuckey (banjo) and Bryan Ranney (mandolin). In 2011, these five began perfecting original compositions which stand up against bluegrass' often rigid boundaries by exploring seldom heard subgenres like jazz-grass, jam-grass, avant-garde-grass and, perhaps most wonderfully, funk-grass. At an Elemental Shakedown show, it's always booty-shaking, foot-stomping fun.