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After we just got through the NFL season that recently crowned the Seattle Seahawks the Super Bowl is always the subject of major conflict about the halftime show. Well, one of the few bands that played a past Super Bowl show that could have played the FIRST Super Bowl show, was the Rolling Stones. Well, that is not exactly the case. This band the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band formed before the Super Bowl began in 1967.<\/p>\n

This is one of those old bands that I grew up with which has the ever changing lineups and no direct musical channel that goes one way. No No, this band played every genre imaginable and so many different instruments. They spawned and influenced so many other bands from all over the world for those 60 years also!<\/p>\n

They played every single program function like the Opry, The Ryman, Austin City Limits, and thousands of festivals all over the country. This band made festivals cross genres and invite others into their family. Festivals like ROMP invited them into their circle and then the band branched out into ones like the Blue Ox in Wisconsin and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I for one think that they deserve to get to retire and leave the touring for the younger acts, and I wanted to take the time out to thank them all for the music for all my life. All of the different lineups from the first to now inspired me to do this very thing here.<\/p>\n

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Continue Their Legendary Six-Decade Run With New Tour Dates, A New Music Video, And A Maintained Love For Making Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Final leg of\u00a0ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour\u00a0<\/em>announced, last show June 18th at Denver\u2019s Mission Ballroom; Watch the \u201cNashville Skyline\u201d music video today.<\/p>\n

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Nashville, TN – January 30, 2026 – In a recent\u00a0LA Times piece<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cWhy the\u00a0Nitty Gritty Dirt Band<\/a>\u2019s musical bridge between generations still matters today,\u201d the long-beloved band\u2019s founding member,\u00a0Jeff Hanna<\/strong>, talks through enough career-defining moments for three or four lifetimes, yet the Dirt Band is still adding on to the long list of what sets them apart. Within the piece lies the premiere of the band\u2019s\u00a0\u201cNashville Skyline\u201d music video<\/strong>, a whiskey-soaked take on Nashville days-gone-by, highlighting the writing trio of Hanna, his son and bandmate Jaime, and his wife and celebrated songwriter Matraca Berg, and just this week, the Dirt Band added one last slew of new tour dates to their\u00a0ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>this final leg dubbed a pretty self-explanatory\u00a060 Years of Dirt<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Part of the magic concoction fueling six decades of the Dirt Band? A simple love for writing, recording, and performing. \u201cWe\u2019ve never stopped making music\u2026sometimes we were the Toot Uncommons with Steve Martin, or playing as Linda Ronstadt\u2019s back-up band for a minute, but it was always great music,\u201d Hanna tells LA Times writer Holly Gleason. And still today, they\u2019re up against a whole new environment, not much like the road days past, but continuing to add days to their farewell rounds. \u201cThe amount of eye rolls you get from saying \u2018Farewell Tour,\u2019 because it\u2019s so abused,\u201d jokes Hanna. \u201cBut the rigors of touring, especially with travel the way it is\u2026\u201d Reflecting on the recording process of their\u00a0latest EP,\u00a0<\/strong>Night After Night<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>Hanna echoes the idea that it\u2019s still all about the music. \u201cWe had the same kind of fun we did when we started,\u201d he says. \u201cSixty years in, what more is there?\u201d<\/p>\n

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This week, the Dirt Band announced\u00a0the final leg of their\u00a0<\/strong>ALL THE GOOD TIMES\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>tour<\/strong>: a June jaunt through the Plains and into the great American West, culminating in a grand return to\u00a0Denver<\/strong>, this time at the\u00a0Mission Ballroom on June 18th<\/strong>. This final run of dates is in addition to an already busy Spring schedule anchored by a very special show at Nashville\u2019s\u00a0Grand Old Opry House on May 13th<\/strong>\u2014the actual 60th anniversary, to the day, of the band\u2019s formation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tickets<\/strong>\u00a0for all announced\u00a0ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour\u00a0<\/em>dates are on sale now. A full list of tour dates can be found below or at\u00a0nittygritty.com\/tour<\/a>. For those who have yet to check out the\u00a0Night After Night\u00a0<\/em>EP, please do so\u00a0right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Catch Nitty Gritty Dirt Band On Tour:<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 20-25 – Miami, FL – Outlaw Country Cruise<\/p>\n

April 9 – Tarrytown, NY – Tarrytown Music Hall<\/p>\n

April 10 – Easton, PA – State Theatre Center for the Arts<\/p>\n

April 11 – Beverly, MA – The Cabot<\/p>\n

April 12 – Lancaster, PA – American Music Theatre<\/p>\n

April 14 – Rutland, VA – The Paramount Theatre<\/p>\n

April 16 – Plymouth, MA – Plymouth Memorial Hall<\/p>\n

April 17 – Nashua, NH – Nashua Center For The Arts<\/p>\n

April 18 – Niagara Falls, ON – Fallsview Casino Resort – The Avalon Theatre<\/p>\n

April 19 – Albany, NY – The Egg Center For The Performing Arts – Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre<\/p>\n

May 7 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre<\/p>\n

May 8 – Bristol, VA – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino<\/p>\n

May 9 – Myrtle Beach, SC – The Carolina Opry Theater – Galvin Gilmore Theater<\/p>\n

May 10 – Wilmington, NC – Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College – Allan and Laura Wilson Humanities and Fine Arts Center<\/p>\n

May 13 – Nashville, TN – Grand Ole Opry House (NGDB\u2019s 60th Anniversary Celebration)<\/p>\n

June 5 – Dodge City, KS – United Wireless Arena<\/p>\n

June 6 – La Vista, NE – The Astro<\/p>\n

June 7 – Rapid City, SD – The Monument<\/p>\n

June 9 – Jackson Hole, WY – Jackson Hole Center for the Arts<\/p>\n

June 10 – Jackson Hole, WY – Jackson Hole Center for the Arts<\/p>\n

June 11 – Helena, MT – Helena Civic Center<\/p>\n

June 13 – Billings, MT – Alberta Bair Theater<\/p>\n

June 14 – Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater<\/p>\n

June 16 – Dillon, CO – Dillon Amphitheater<\/p>\n

June 18 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom<\/p>\n

For more information, or to purchase tickets, please visit\u00a0nittygritty.com\/tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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