Mountain Standard Time have launched their Kickstarter campaign to fund their next project, but this isn’t your typical Kickstarter...
Instead of raising the money to record a new album, Mountain Standard Time decided on building something more sustainable - MST Studios. This mobile studio will allow the band to consistently create new music for their fans, as well as capture high-quality recordings of their live “freegrass” shows. Mountain Standard Time have included a number of incentives for donating, including:
- Digital download of an MST exclusive album only available to Kickstarter backers
- Two VIP tickets to any single 2014 MST headlining show
- Private acoustic MST show
- Studio sessions to record your very own album with MST
and many, many more...
Mountain Standard Time’s goal is to reach $15,000 by Friday, May 16. To donate, CLICK HERE.
Catch Mountain Standard Time on the road:
4.19: Daze On The Green | Denver, CO
5.23-25: Summer Camp Music Festival | Chillicothe, IL
6.4-8: Wakarusa Music Festival | Ozark, AR
7.18: Groove Music and Arts Festival | Georgetown, CO
About Mountain Standard Time:
For Mountain Standard Time, there is one focus: making good, honest music. The organic process of expression—from heart to hands to ears—preserves the integrity of the finished product. While the band spends an exhaustive amount of time crafting and perfecting their material, they don’t pay any mind to the rules and confines of genre. With elements of Bluegrass, Prog Rock, Latin and Americana, attempting to categorize the band can be challenging. MST coined the term “free grass” so that they could stop focusing on labeling their music and stick to what they do best: playing it.
MST brands its own style of "Rocky Mountain FreeGrass," blending acoustic guitar and mandolin with keyboards, electric bass, and drums. The members of MST migrated to Colorado from different regions of the country, bringing wildly diverse musical backgrounds and influences along with them. Their paths eventually crossed in Nederland - a small, Colorado mountain town steeped in bluegrass music. Musical relationships were forged through the camaraderie of late-night jam sessions that characterize the music scene of the Front Range. Shortly after meeting, MST grew quickly and performed all over Colorado and across the country, with appearances at Wakarusa Music Festival, 10,000 Lakes Festival, Summer Camp Music Festival, and NedFest, among many others.
After some time away from the road, MST returned back to the live music scene in 2012. The band’s sound adds new dimension as Zack Scott (drums), Nick Dunbar (mandolin, guitar) and Stanton Sutton (guitar, mandolin) are joined by Otis Lande on bass and Ryan Ebarb on keyboards. Solid vocal harmonies and genuine lyrics interplay with well-crafted melodies over a soundscape that varies from lush and delicate to lively and complex—often within the same song. Plenty of room for improvisation keeps everything exciting, while unique transitions stitch it all together. They released their first EP, Sunny, in early 2013, which captures the spirit of the band’s live energy.
