On Sunday, May 19th, at the Silver Spur in Mechanic Falls, Maine, our very own Billy Thibodeau will be inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame. As a child, Billy moved to Cambridge, ME., and he was soon cutting his teeth playing a mandolin that was nearly ¾ his size with his dad, Sam Tidwell, in the Kennebec Valley Boys.  He was a little kid at the time but now, in a professional career that has spanned a better part of 40 years, his love and passion for anything bluegrass and country continues to blossom every season.   Known widely as a picker (guitar, fiddle, bass, bani ..read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW SINGLE - NOW AVAILABLE “Unfinished Bridges” Listen or Download Now “Unfinished Bridges” is available wherever digital downloads and streaming are available including iTunes and Amazon and streaming on Spotify and Pandora.   Rock Hearts are performing throughout the United States on their Unfinished Bridges Tour - 2024.   Nashville, TN (March 22, 2024) 615 Hideaway Records is pleased to announce new music and the f ..read more

Saga Musical Instruments recently named our own, Billy Thibodeau, as a Saga Music/Kentucky Artist. Check it out: https://www.sagamusic.com/artists/billy-thibodeau/ If you've heard Billy playing live with the Rock Hearts, he's been playing and slaying his Kentucky KM-1500 mandolin that was entrusted to him by friend and fellow Kentucky Mandolin monster and Saga Artist, Jimmy Gaudreau. Billy is now the caretaker of his very own Kentucky KM-1500 sent directly to him from the good folks at Saga Musical Instruments. Billy is joining other Kentucky Mandolin/Saga Music artists, Jimmy Gaudreau, Dan Bo ..read more

Rock Hearts are thrilled to announce that we will be headed down to Nashville next week for our first trip as a band to the SPBGMA Conference. We're excited to share our brand of bluegrass music with new audiences. Who will we be seeing there ..read more

Austin Scelzo Named 2023 Connecticut Arts Hero Our Fiddler, Austin Scelzo, was recently selected as a 2023 Connecticut Arts Hero.  Read the Bluegrass Today article here   The Connecticut Arts Hero Awards honor and celebrate Connecticut residents who are doing inspiring things in, for, or through the arts in Connecticut. Since 2016, the Connecticut Arts Hero Awards have introduced us to an array of remarkable individuals engaged in or supporting the arts - some publicly and some behind the scenes. The Connecticut Arts Hero Awards are presented at a special, open to all, free event ..read more

Rock Hearts had a blast at a fundraiser at the Clover Bud Ranch in Portsmouth, RI, home of Martin Beck's New England Grass Fed company.  The 5k fundraiser was to help bolster the Bovine Therapy Program for students at the Ocean Tides School... where they learn about working farms, respecting the land, and raising livestock.  It's a tremendous learning experience and we were happy to be a part of the fundraising efforts ..read more

Click Here to Listen Co-written with my bandmate from Rock Hearts, Alex Macleod, Second Fiddle Blues was recorded as a duet with my good friend Vickie Vaughn (Della Mae, High Fidelity Bluegrass) in Nashville in Feb 2023. Vickie recommended Mike Drassler for pedal steel guitar which completed the classic country lonesome sound. The story is a heart wrenching, classic melodrama that fits perfectly in the canon of great country music.  I'd love to hear what you think! Click Here to Listen ..read more

"WANDERLUST – 615 HIDEAWAY RECORDS (2023) ROCK HEARTS So, here it is… the long awaited sophomore album by New England Bluegrass Band, Rock Hearts. Forming a decade ago, these guys had enough time to evolve their unique sound with modern day bluegrass. Since their first album in 2020 (Starry Southern Nights), Billy Thibodeau on mandolin and Austin Scelzo on fiddle have joined the band. They are great additions to the founding members Alex MacLeod (guitar), Rick Brodsky (bass) and Joe Deetz (banjo). This new album, “Wanderlust” has it all! Hard-driving banjo licks, heartfelt fiddle melodies, d ..read more

We are excited to announce that Wanderlust, our newly released album with The 615 Hideaway Records, is now available in CD or Digital Download formats on our website store. https://rockheartsbluegrass.com/store You can also purchase singles off the new album, as well as CDs or Digital Downloads from our first album, Starry Southern Nights. https://rockheartsbluegrass.com/store ..read more

The guys are excited to get back out on the road.  We will usher in 2022 with two LIVE shows on the weekend of February 5 & Feb 6.  Saturday, Feb 5, 2022, we'll be at St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts for a 7:00pm show.  It's our first time at St. Kieran and we're looking forward to bringing some live Bluegrass to the good folks in Northern New Hampshire.  Then on Sunday, Feb. 6, we'll be performing at Camp Glen Brook in Marlborough, NH for an afternoon show, 2:00-3:30.  It's been several years since Alex MacLeod, front man for Rock Hearts has played in the ..read more