Schedule
schedule announcement coming march 2026
What, you ask, is Cosmic Country? In a lively interview and absolutely smoking live set on World Café last year, Daniel Donato sagely holds forth. The guitarist explains that it is “a frequency, of sorts,” and goes on to say the band’s hyper-drive approach to its outlaw country-bluegrass-psychedelic sound is a bridge between “what is chaotic and what is orderly. The cosmos is the very definition of what is unknown.”
Daniel honed his considerable chops in Nashville, first as a teenaged busker, and then working an endless string of four-hour sets with Don Kelly’s band at Robert’s Western World. He emerged from that experience a seasoned veteran well before turning 30. Moreover, he’s a guitarist who came to learn how discipline, dedication and band dynamics can create unexpected musical moments in a live setting. As he notes, no two sets Cosmic Country delivers will ever be the same. He’s a wicked good picker, an imaginative songwriter and his band – Will “Mustang” McGee(bass/vocals), Nathan “Sugarleg” Aronowitz (keyboards/guitar/vocals), and Will “Bronco” Clark (drums/vocals) – is straight-up lit. This, my friends, will be a “don’t miss it” set.