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2024 International Blues Challenge Band Winner, "Piper & The Hard Times" combine the sensibility and flair of vintage blues bands with the entertainment savvy and edge of modern rockers - one of America’s premier new blues groups” (Ron Wynn/Nashville Scene.) Nashville-based blues & roots music group, Piper & the Hard Times, deliver intense and rhythmically dynamic blues-based music that translates into an unforgettable, captivating live show. The blues is the main foundation that defines their work, along with R&B, soul and rock. In January 2024 they took first place in the band division at the prestigious International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, TN. The core of the band, Al “Piper” Green, Steve Eagon and Dave Colella have been playing and writing together for over 20 years. Piper & The Hard Times has an instrumental prowess that enables them to improvise with flair, while still creating music that has a melodic appeal and can immediately connect with audiences that want both a high degree of musical competence and songs with a strong grooves and catchy hooks.