Boston is one of America’s great music towns. But among the various styles the city is known for that have launched many musical acts to success and stardom, country music wasn’t a truly thriving genre there, that’s until singer, songwriter and guitarist Ward Hayden and his band The Outliers (formerly known as Girls Guns &amp; Glory) sang and played their distinctive take on C&amp;W with a rock ’n’ roll kick to the top of the Boston scene and a thriving, critically-acclaimed and highly-awarded career across America and in Europe.

Over the course of nine albums and playing some 200 shows a year for most of the last two decades, his band became leading lights for contemporary country that integrates the music’s finest traditions into a sound Cincinnati City Beat hails as “incredibly endearing.” They’ve won seven Boston Music Awards (including Act of the Year), the French Country Music Awards crowned them the Independent Artist of the Year, plus an Americana Music Awards nomination for Artist of the Year. As well, they are a regular presence on the Americana chart and SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel.

Ward Hayden &amp; The Outliers – currently Ward Hayden on guitar and voice, Handsome Greg Hall on bass,  Pat Brown on drums, and Ty Marshall on guitar – nicely expresses the group’s left-field take on country music. The band is proud to have developed their own brand of modern C&amp;W and helped put Boston on the country music map.

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