"...very complex and progressive, moving from beautiful melodic parts to avant-garde to hard rocking funk stuff and punky outbursts coming from god knows where...everything is well balanced and there is no way to know where they're gonna go next...one moment they are dark sounding and the other they are the happiest band alive."
- Sagichim, PROGARCHIVES.COM
"Yes, there are...'country music' influences...very rockabilly ones...like a really tripped out, ornate and angry version of the Stray Cats. There are also '90's King Crimsonish screaming guitars, Steve Howeish solos and strange vocal harmonies. There's occasionally a lick or two that reminds of The Dixie Dregs..."
- Fred Trafton, GEPR
"Being a chameleon band from its birth, Dreadnaught still continues changing the compositional and stylistic aspects of their music; and they do it both skillfully and successfully... Heartily recommended and without any reservations. It's a kind of eternal music, which will bring you joy each time you return to it..."
- PROGRESSOR
Formed in 1996, DREADNAUGHT sought to combine traditional Americana with progressive rock. What resulted was a mix of styles and attitudes that on paper would seem to be a train wreck waiting to happen, but which in reality worked in unexpected and singular ways. DREADNAUGHT brewed a concoction of prog, Americana, jazz, funk, classical and other music that ultimately birthed a sound like none before.
Passing themselves off as a "fun, nice, audience-friendly musical group" as the house band for The Music Hall/New Hampshire Public radio series Writers On A New England Stage, DREADNAUGHT have worked with authors ranging from STEPHEN KING and DAN BROWN to MADELINE ALBRIGHT and NEIL GAIMAN, and performed with musicians like TONY LEVIN and JOHN ENTWISTLE.
DREADNAUGHT will join Accordo Dei Contrari (Italy), Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic (US), Karcius (Canada), Iluvatar (US), Consider The Source (US), Doctor Nerve (US) and Ephemeral Sun (US) at ProgDay 2012, the 18th edition of the longest running progressive rock festival in the world. ProgDay 2012 will take place on Saturday, September 1st, and Sunday, September 2nd, at Storybook Farm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Advance tickets are available on the ProgDay web site until August 15th.
For more information, and to hear music from this year's bands, please visit us at www.progday.net.
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