Greensky Bluegrass Bring Love into 2025 with Five-Cover Fruition Sit-In

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On Tuesday, Dec. 31, Greensky Bluegrass blew through Denver’s Mission Ballroom to welcome 2025 with a special New Year’s Eve performance. With a reputation to uphold for excellent year-end celebrations, the pathbreaking string quintet went above and beyond high expectations, delivering two full sets of fan favorites, a fistful of covers and an extended sit-in from special guests Fruition.

After an opening act from Fruittion, the 15-year genre-bending traditional outfit well familiar to jamgrass fans, Greensky took the stage to the tune of the longtime setlist staple “Old Barns.” With further essentials “Leap Year” and “Distracted,” the band broached The Stanley Brothers’ genre standard “How Mountain Girls Can Love,” the sole cover of set one, then proceeded through core originals “Past My Prime” and “entirely Mine” en route to a big finish with “Living Over.”

Greensky returned to the stage after the set break with “Reasons to Stay,” then followed that Stress Dreams standout with “All Four,” “All for Money” and a seamless transition between “A Letter to Seymour” and “In Control.” The band picked up heat with the explosive jam vehicle “Kerosene,” then let that excitement supercharge a countdown to midnight with costumed players as Father Time and Baby New Year joining in a rendition of the holiday classic “Auld Lang Syne”

Greensky seized their first moments in 2025 by welcoming Fruition’s Kellen Asebroek, Jay Cobb Anderson, Tyler Thompson and singer/guitarist Mimi Naja, who also celebrated her birthday on New Year’s Day. Together, the bluegrass supergroup set “Love” as a theme for 2025, covering five iconic tracks with that word in the title. After tearing through Bobby Bland’s “Turn on Your Lovelight” and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” both of which had been absent from Greensky’s setlists since 2017, the group welcomed vocalist Megan Letts for Greensky’s second-ever treatment of Huey Lewis & The News’ “Power of Love” and Fruition bassist Jeff Leonard for a debut of Bill Withers’ “Kissing My Love.”

The band finally closed out the main portion of their performance on a gleaming high note, gathering all the evening’s artists for Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved.” After a roaring burst of applause, the core GSB quintet returned for an encore of “Run or Die.”

Greensky Bluegrass will return to the road for their 2025 winter tour with a Jan. 16 performance at Blue Lake, Calif.’s Blue Lake Casino and Hotel. For tickets and more information, visit greenskybluegrass.com/tour.

Read on for the complete setlist from New Year’s Eve.

Greensky Bluegrass

The Mission Ballroom – Denver

12/31/24

Set I: Old Barns, Leap Year, Distracted, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Take Cover, Past My Prime, Entirely Mine, Living Over

Set II: Reasons to Stay, All Four, A Letter to Seymour, In Control, All for Money, Kerosene, Auld Lang Syne, Turn On Your Lovelight, Whole Lotta Love, The Power of Love, Kissing My Love, Could You Be Loved

Encore: Run or Die