2024 International Blues Challenge Winner, Piper & the Hard Times. 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. Led by the fantastic Al "Piper" Green! 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. Don't miss em' Friday night, June 13th.