Piper and the Hard Times

Piper & the Hard Times are performing as part of the 2025 “In The Market for Blues”, Omaha’s blues festival. The festival includes more than 30 bands performing at 10 venues in the Old Market and Capitol District area in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. For more information about the festival, click here: In the Market for Blues – 2025 For ticket information, please see: Get Your Tickets on Eventbrite!

Nashville-based blues & roots music group, Piper & the Hard Times, deliver intense and rhythmically dynamic blues-based music that translates into an unforgettable, captivating live show. The blues is the main foundation that defines their work, along with R&B, soul and rock. In January 2024 they took first place in the band division at the prestigious International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, TN. The core of the band, Al “Piper” Green, Steve Eagon and Dave Colella have been playing and writing together for over 20 years. Piper & The Hard Times has an instrumental prowess that enables them to improvise with flair, while still creating music that has a melodic appeal and can immediately connect with audiences that want both a high degree of musical competence and songs with a strong grooves and catchy hooks.

Piper & the Hard Times have been delighting audiences across the South for many years. When you hear them you’re getting a lot more than just inspired covers or retooled bar band material. Instead, you’re hearing poignant, inspired “from the soul” music from these talented guys who love playing, and they bring that energy and vitality to the bandstand each and every night.