Nashville bluegrass favorite The SteelDrivers play Clearwater on Thursday

Just because Chris Stapleton isn’t in The SteelDrivers anymore, doesn’t mean the Nashville bluegrass band isn’t worth your time. In fact, the quintet won its first Grammy award (Best Bluegrass Album) with the current lineup in 2015, five years after Stapleton left.
See that talent for yourself when the band’s banjo, fiddle and mandolin playing comes to Capitol Theatre where it last played in 2019. The downtown Clearwater venue recommends masks, but you know you should probably bust out that K-95 if you want to avoid omicron.

This article appears in Jan 6-12, 2022.