• LunÀtico (map)
  • 486 Halsey Street
  • Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY, 11233
  • United States

***TWO SETS: 9PM & 10:15PM***
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***LUNATICO HAS A FULL DINNER AND COCKTAIL MENU SO COME EARLY TO EAT!***

Two respective virtuosos breathe new life into a musical paradigm as old as the hills — the hills of Appalachia that is. The last time these two shared our bandstand was back in 2025 with Grant’s quintet. It was one of our favorite shows all year. You don’t wanna miss this scintillating duo.

Grant Gordy ~ Guitar
Jacob Jolliff ~ Mandolin

Born in Oregon, raised on his father’s roots and blues guitar playing, Brooklyn-based GRANT GORDY was drawn to the guitar early on as a means of personal expression and intellectual curiosity. Moving to Colorado as he entered his 20s opened his musical horizons as he began playing innumerable gigs with local musicians in a wide range of different styles. Being asked to assume the guitarists’ role in the fabled David Grisman Quintet, a spot previously held by such guitar notables as Tony Rice, Mark O’Connor, Frank Vignola and Mike Marshall, firmly established Gordy as one of the pre inent young voices on guitar. Just ask his boss, David Grisman, who says Gordy “belongs to the new elite of American acoustic practitioners who are pushing the ever-expanding envelope of a musical frontier.”

JACOB JOLLIFF was born into a musical family in Newberg, OR. His dad started him on the mandolin at age seven and required him to practice ten minutes a day. But after six months of practicing this minimal amount, something clicked, and almost overnight he started putting in several hours of intense practice daily. And this hasn't really changed in the last 20 years.

These days, the mandolinist’s main focus is The Jacob Jolliff Band. This ensemble is a group of virtuosic pickers that play Jacob's original instrumentals, as well as showcase his singing. In 2022, Jacob was called on by world famous banjo player, Béla Fleck, to tour as part of My Bluegrass Heart. He performed around the country alongside Béla and some of the very best musicians in the genre: Bryan Sutton, Cody Kilby, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Michael Cleveland, Stuart Duncan and Billy Contreras.