Sam Reid & the Riot Act

Formed in the spring of 2006, Johnny Ransom and Sam Reid recruited drummer JC Campbell for a string Sunday gigs and billed themselves as "modular bluegrass" or "un-pure bluegrass" to describe the sounds of Caribbean-inspired, rootsy original music blended with re-imagined traditional fiddle tunes. Aaron Goff joined in for several of these gigs and the recording of Dreaming the Life, in 2009. Joe Kessler joined the group in early 2010 and the band, featuring Tim Kelly on dobro recorded its second full-length record, "A Slow Burn" in 2011. The band continues to write and release music, the latest being Snow Day Waltz in February of 2023.