💫 Welcome to Twang 💫

Twang wishes to bring good songs and great live shows to you! We've been working on this since 2014 and have played over 400 concerts in Denmark, released 4 albums and won a Danish Music Award for "Roots Band of The Year" 2024. Our music is still expanding and evolving and we hope that it will continue to do so for many years to come.

We invite you, our fans, to support our work by subscribing to us!

How does it work?

You choose to subscribe to us with any amount that you deem appropriate from the four available options:

The Twang Dweller (free)
The Banjo-Roller
The Chicken-Picker
The Twangoholic (receive The Twang Gift*)

*The Twang Gift is a gift that Twang assembles every year and sends out on the band's birthday (Feb. 15) to all subscribers on The Twangoholic membership level. The contents of it will be a surprise every year - it could be signed merch, exclusive live recordings, early versions of songs you love, recordings of car conversations or a plethora of other strange things we might want to put in there 🐌🎻🪕🎸

Aside from the perks of each individual tier, your contribution will simply help us continue our work with writing, rehearsals, recording and everything else that we do to bring that "twang" to Twang ❤️

Bio
Twang is banjo, fiddle, guitar, double bass and beautiful three-part harmonies. Twang is three musicians with roots in Denmark and the US. Since 2014, they have played countless concerts and have found their very own sound and atmosphere, entertaining and challenging audiences with a skilfully improvisational style.

The band met as students at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen (RMC), where all three stood out due to their interest in American folk music. The three musicians have always had a desire to challenge the folk music scene and bring something new into the tradition. This work has so far culminated in hundreds of shows around Denmark and the release of four albums: Bebzy Biddle (2017), the live album Live Tapes Volume 1 (2019), the collaborative album Svante Sjöblom & Twang (2022) and the DMA-nominated Propaganda (2024).

Twang has played countless sold out shows at festivals and venues all over Denmark - among these, the renowned Danish folk music festival Tønder Festival three years in a row. At their show for Danish Music Awards Blues in 2023, they were highlighted by the media, audience and industry alike for a remarkable performance: “The virtuosic and wonderfully unpretentious Twang gained a good number of new fans on top of their sublime fusion of blues and bluegrass.” – Michael Gonzalez (Music Manager at Turbinen, Randers – translated from Danish)

Twang is like a three-legged stool, where each musician is one of the legs. Only with all three legs is Twang "Twang". Each member pulls in their own direction, but together, they ensure a unique musical balance. Twang never loses control as a united band, keeping each other grounded and making each other soar.

Awards
- Awarded a Danish Music Award for "Roots Band of The Year" 2024
- Nominated for a DMA for "Roots Track of The Year" 2024 (for the song "UFO")
- Nominated for a DMA as "Roots Composer of The Year" 2024 (for the album Propaganda)
- Nominated for a DMA Blues for "Live Band of The Year" 2018.

Festivals played
Bear Creek Folk Festival (CA), Tonder Festival (Toender, DK), CPH Jazz Festival (DK), Riverboat Jazz Festival (DK), Folk & Faestival (Esbjerg, DK), Back To The Roots (Graasten, DK), Den Graenseloese Festival (Ebeltoft, DK), Ribe Jazz (Ribe, DK), Stauning Jazz Festival (Ringkøbing, DK), Fannikerdagene (Fanoe, DK), Godtfolk (Fanoe, DK), Den Blaa Festival (Aalborg, DK), Nashville Nights (Odense, DK), Den Udsatte Festival (DK).

Line up
Thyge Van Dassen (fiddle, bass, vocals)
Spencer Gross (guitar, bass, vocals)
Peter Banks (banjo, bass, vocals)