Our mandolin and ukulele version of The Allman Brother's classic instrumental Jessica has now been watched and shared by more than half-a-million people on Facebook! Who knew such tiny instruments could wield such power?

Check it out on Facebook, YouTube, or add the song to your favorite playlist on Spotify

ps. You can download an mp3 of the song (as well as our entire recorded catalog!) by becoming a supporter of ours over at Patreon!

Ukulele Magazine recently named our mandolin and ukulele duet of Jessica the "Feel-Good Video Du Jour"! Check out the article and video here.

Heads up! ;-)

We've got a brand new hat design now available at the Ryanhood online store (or at our merchandise table at a show). We hope you'll wear it with pride!

Our version of The Beatles' song And Your Bird Can Sing is available today for streaming on Spotify! Click here and listen lots of times (preferably millions) and spread the word! And if you'd like to download the song, become a Ryanhood patron on Patreon and you can download it, as well as the rest of our catalog!

People often ask us "what's the best way to support you guys?"  
We haven't always had a best answer, but we do now...  please join us on Patreon. It's a platform where you can become a Ryanhood patron, helping us to continue to create and tour, AND (as if that wasn't enough) in return you get access to things like exclusive music releases, sheet music, private concerts, exclusive merch, and more!

Those of you tuning in to NPR this past holiday weekend may have heard our song What Is Christmas on the popular radio show This American Life. If you m missed it, you can listen to the episode here (our song caps off the episode at the end), and you can listen to our song What Is Christmas in its entirety here. It's always such an honor to be made a part of our favorite radio show!

Storytelling has become a major part of Ryanhood shows in the past few years, and we frequently get asked for recordings and videos of those storytelling moments from our live shows. But we haven’t had anything solid to point to—until now. 

We are so pleased to present our first TED talk, “How bad things can make us good people”! 

Recorded live at the 2019 TEDx Tucson [R]evolution Conference, our first time on the red circle wove the songs “I Didn’t Put Anything Into Your Place” and “Second City” with stories of personal heartbreak, large scale disaster, and how we can find hope for our whole culture by choosing to face our own hard places. 

Here’s the official TEDx YouTube video description: 

Poets from Ernest Hemingway to Kanye West have taught us that we can, over time, become stronger right at the places where we’ve been wounded. But does “stronger” always mean “better”? While many of our greatest heroes were been born of intense suffering, many of our strongest villains were born the same way. What causes some people to pass on their pain on to others in warfare, racism, and abuse, while some seem to transform their pain into great art, compassionate wisdom, and restorative justice? 

Join Cameron Hood and Ryan David Green of Tucson, Arizona’s indie-folk duo Ryanhood as they use virtuosity, heart, and humor to explore the gifts of heartbreak, loss, and failure. What does it mean to truly transform pain? And how is it that bad things can make us into good people? 

Check out Beachcomber Magazine's recent article, in which Cameron gets to muse about the record that most changed his life. Read it here.

Ryanhood is this month's Artist Spotlight over at Takamine Guitars. We're big fans of the guitar maker, and you can read a wide ranging interview we did with the guitar maker discussing all things acoustic guitar. Check out the full interview here!

We’ve been invited to speak and perform at TEDx Tucson on Sep 21! More than 500 of Tucson’s most impassioned TEDx enthusiasts will come together to immerse in "ideas worth spreading”. It will be an all day event, taking place at the Berger Theater, and you can get more information and tickets here.

Hand drawn by our very own Uncle Cameron, this Ryanhood coloring book is perfect for kids and adults alike. This saddle-stitched (stapled) booklet features 15 unique coloring pages depicting the duo in all of their extra-musical adventures, such as: 

- Ryanhood on the moon 
- Ryanhood riding horses 
- Ryanhood riding dinosaurs 
- Ryanhood under the sea 
- Ryanhood enjoying a jumping castle 
- Ryanhood planting a garden under the watchful eye of a brachiosaurus 
- and more!

We're thrilled to be returning to perform at the 2019 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, NY on Aug 2, 3 and 4th, alongside BoDeans, Stephen Kellogg, and many other amazing acts. Tickets are on sale now!

WHRB 95.3FM (Harvard Radio Broadcasting) reviewed our recent live performance at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. Check it out here!

We are thrilled to be invited to perform at the first annual Opelika Songwriters Festival on May 24-26. We'll be playing alongside Shawn Mullins, Tony Lucca, Dan Navarro, and many more amazing songwriters.

We're proud to announce that we're officially a part of the Takamine Guitar family. What an honor to be in the company of so many of our heroes. Come on out to one of our a live shows and you'll see/hear us rocking out with our Takamine P7DC and EF341SC guitars.

We're thrilled to be opening up for Kevin Griffin at his upcoming City Winery shows in New York City, Washington DC, and Atlanta. Kevin is the frontman for the band Better Than Ezra, and has penned countless hits for other artists as well. But on top of all of that, he's one of the most-fun artists we've ever had the pleasure of playing with (we had the honor for opening up for him in Denver in 2016). Check the shows page for details and ticket links!

We are Official Showcase Artists at the 2018 FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region West) Conference in Woodland Hills, CA. We will also be playing a few late night 'guerilla' showcases as well. Hope to see some old friends at the conference, and look forward to meeting new ones!