The Avett Brothers bring a refreshing sound and feeling to today's music scene. The group features Scott on banjo, lead vocals and stomp drum, Seth on guitar, lead vocals, stomp cymbal and piano and Bob on stand-up bass and backing vocals. Their high-energy, tongue in cheek show will put a smile on your face but their sad and lonesome tunes will surely bring a tear to the eye in both the young and old. 

  It¹s the intensity at which the Avetts pour their angst, heartache, humor and love into each show that is captivating audiences across the country. They are currently on a nationwide, coast-to-coast tour performing in bars, restaurants, theatres, coffee houses, and street corners of Anytown, U.S.A.

  "When people hear what we're saying in our songs and listening to things for the right reasons - when they get quiet when we're playing - it's a blessing. To know that somebody has a problem in their life that we can temporarily soothe --- that's what it's all about," says Scott with an infectious grin.

  The Avett Brothers have set their sights high in terms of goals for their music. But beyond just selling records, touring endlessly, and winning over new fans, the Avett Brothers hope to continue to create music that will provoke thought, change perceptions and simply bring something new and refreshing into this world. Starting an acoustic revolution isn't too much to hope for. Right?

  Our new album offers what we hope to be a musical statement in honesty.  It's not to say that all the songs are literally about truth, but we hope that a notion of truth will be felt by whoever listens to it. To us, it seems that this is a feeling that comes across in all the best music, in all the music that stays in a person's heart.  It is this honesty that gives someone an actual love, a bond with a song, or with a record.  Mignonette is an album that carries an overall theme of truth.  In some parts, there are specific passages relating directly to it.

   For example, the closing track on the album, called Salvation Song', contains a chorus, which speaks to an extremely universal audience.  The lyric takes on the immense task of declaring a purpose, attempting to give solid answers as to why we live at all:  " We came for salvation.  We came for family.   We came for all that's good.  That's how we'll walk away.  We came to break the bad.  We came to cheer the sad.  We came to leave behind the world a better way." These lines are approaching the most honest, most stripped - down manner in which we could describe our desire, the things that matter to us, not only as a band, but as living, breathing people. There are other, even more direct lines in the theme of honesty on the album.   

  Mignonette is just under 74 minutes long.  An album of this scale is ambitious in any forum.  And for those that are this long, most sacrifice quality for quantity.  There is, however, no sacrifice that decreases the artistic merit of this album.  We put everything we have to offer in every song, a hundred percent on every track.  We feel and hope that this will be evident for anyone who takes those valuable moments to listen.

  We have been called a traveling celebration. This a great compliment for us, one that we feel is true, in a fairly broad sense.  A lot of times, we probably look like exactly that, a celebration. There are only three of us, but we are always playing 5or 6 instruments, existing on the stage in a kind of rhythmic whirlwind.  In this way, there is a ragged kind of wildness about our shows, that musically charges the foundations of more lively, erratic, and boot-stomping music.  The other part of the celebration is one that celebrates life itself, with the intention of encompassing its less than lively aspects; the parts like sadness, and heartache, and weakness, and regret. These things find there way into our live show as well, complimented with textures more becoming of their general feel, with sad melodies, and tones that remind the audience of harder times.  What can be said without reserve about our shows is that we put everything we have into them, and this is what we will continue to do.  

Read what the Industry is saying about the Avett Brothers!

"The Avett Brothers' music is infused with everything that makes music so great.  It's natural and real, simultaenously soothing yet rocking enough to get you all fired up.  These guys realize the power of music and they take it seriously, feeling every single word that comes from their mouths and every single note that strums out of their fingers."

"Scott and Seth Avett's harmonies on their second full-player proper, A Carolina Jubilee, work like an old muscle car that takes forever to crank but -- once the pistons start firing -- eats up the highway with gusto. Like the brothers' harmonies, it's live-wire stuff. Who knew acoustic music could sound so electrifying?" It's music that's not so much concerned with the dichotomy between Saturday night and Sunday morning as it is with those days where everything changes suddenly -- like a breakup or meeting someone who sweeps you off your feet -- and the rest of your life. True, stripped-down front porch country with a Piedmont blues twist, with enough sharp edges to make Steve Albini stand up and applaud."