Mumford & Sons To Perform In Pittsburgh

For those who love the sounds of folk rock, you don’t want to miss the opportunity to catch Mumford & Sons on March 14 at PPG Paints Arena. You can get tickets now by clicking the link.

The British band, formed in 2007, consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar and drums), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboard, piano and synthesizer), Winston Marshall (vocals, electric guitar and banjo) and Ted Dwane (vocals, bass guitar and double bass).

The band has released four studio albums; "Sigh No More," (2009), "Babel," (2012), "Wilder Mind," (2015) and "Delta," (2018). Their debut, "Sigh No More," peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US, with Babel and Wilder Mind. Both debuted at number one in the UK and US. The former became the fastest-selling rock album of the decade and lead to a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2013.

In addition, the band has also recorded three live albums: "Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire," (2011), "The Road to Red Rocks" (2012) and "Live from South Africa: Dust and Thunder," (2017).

The Mumford & Sons music style has been described by The Hollywood Reporter and Forbes as folk rock. They began by using bluegrass and folk instrumentation, with the core instruments of acoustic guitar, banjo, piano and a double bass, played with a rhythmic style based in alternative rock and folk.

The band has won a number of music awards throughout their career, with "Sigh No More," earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011, a Mercury Prize nomination and six overall Grammy Award nominations. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013.

NME reported that the band's sound is "More expansive than ever and decidedly heavier, thanks to the shift in instrumentation." The group also employed a full drum kit instead of just a kick drum.

"We've had our standard line-up of instruments for the last six years and we felt like that was our palette, [but] we started picking up other stuff," said Lovett. "It's a very natural departure from some of that rootsier stuff."

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