Merry Christmas, all! Here’s our 2025 Christmas video! Our take on the holiday favorite Santa Claus is Coming to Town has a bluegrass twist. And Toby the dog returns with his holiday hijinks. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season.

It’s here…our 2024 Christmas video! For this year’s OSR production, we’ve bluegrass-ified the classic Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. Our version is Pickin’ Around the Christmas Tree. And, our special guest, Toby, returns with more holiday escapades. Merry Christmas, one and all!

Please welcome Luther Blount as the newest Ocean State Rambler! Luther has joined us on mandolin, guitar, and vocals. He brings some great bluegrass standards to the OSR set list and has added depth to our instrumentation and sound.

Luther first picked up a guitar in college, drawn into the music scene by musicians who hung out and jammed regularly in his dorm. He also took up the bass guitar around that time and played in several informal bands. After marrying and starting a family, Luther kept his love of music alive by getting involved with music at his church. He was pulled into the bluegrass world when his wife gave him a mandolin for Christmas a few years back and he signed up for bluegrass jamming classes. Now an avid bluegrass picker, Luther is a regular at local jams and even started his own monthly open jam in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Luther met and started picking with the other Ocean State Ramblers at jams and events hosted by the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance. An engineer by day, Luther works hard at documenting and analyzing the band’s set lists and arrangements.

Stop by and say howdy to Luther at one of our upcoming gigs!

It’s here…Christmastime and our 2023 Christmas video! This year’s OSR production includes a pinch of nostalgia and a dash of fun. We hope you enjoy our take on Blue Christmas. Happy holidays, one and all!

We wish everyone a very, merry Christmas and happy New Year! Thank you to all who came to our shows in 2021. We look forward to another year of making music and entertaining. We hope you enjoy our Christmas video: Holly, Jolly Christmas.

It’s a wrap! Our 2020 gig year came to a close on Saturday, October 17th at the Southcoast Open Air Market. We were missing one Rambler and it was windy and cold, but thankfully the sun came out and it turned out to be a fine October day, and we were happy to be playing music together in person. All four of us made our debut at SOAM on September 19th.

Ironically, 2020 got off to a great start. On New Year’s night, we played the Bluegrass Throedown show at Nick-a-nee’s in Providence. That was followed by appearances at the Mount Hope Farmers Market on January 11th and the Wood River Inn on February 9th. We booked gigs at libraries, concert series, a bluegrass festival and farmers markets into the spring, summer and fall.

Then, the COVID-19 pandemic changed almost all of our plans, as it did for musicians everywhere.

Thankfully, we were able to continue rehearsing remotely using an online platformed called JamKazam. And, we were able to play a few outdoor gigs at SOAM and the Weaver Library Farmers Market during the summer and fall.

We hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well. And, we look forward to seeing you at a venue next year. In the meantime, stay tuned as we have plans for virtual projects in the coming months.

We’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Here’s our bluegrass version of the classic Christmas song, Silver Bells.

Hope to see you at one of our shows in 2020.

Anne-Marie, Dave, Diane and Stephen