Hayseed Dixie Tickets

About Hayseed Dixie

Hayseed Dixie began in Nashville in the summer of 2000, when frontman John Wheeler and a few musician friends decided, mostly for a laugh, to play AC/DC songs the way an Appalachian string band might. The result was their debut album, A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC (2001), which reimagined ten of the Aussie rockers' classics, "Highway to Hell" among them, on banjo, mandolin and fiddle. Nobody had heard anything quite like it, and the band named their new sound "rockgrass".

Since then they've taken on everyone from Kiss and Black Sabbath to The Who and Queen, and their rip-roaring take on "Bohemian Rhapsody" from Killer Grass (2010) has become a staple of their live shows. They write plenty of their own songs too. UK crowds have taken them to heart, and they've played Glastonbury, Download and Cambridge Folk Festival, which shows just how far their appeal stretches. Expect lightning-fast picking, a wicked sense of humour and a whole room singing along to rock songs they'll never hear the same way again.