[Cover photo credit to Gabriela Barbieri]
Grammy Award-winning Bluegrass quintet The Infamous Stringdusters have announced Dust the Halls Vol. 2, which will be available on November 13th, 2026 via Americana Vibes. The band has shared the first preview of the album with “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.”
The ten-track album revisits favorites including “Silent Night” and “Up on a House Top,” alongside three original songs. Building on the entirely instrumental first volume, the Dusters introduce vocals on nearly half the collection and welcome Shawn Lane as a guest on several tracks.
Guitarist Andy Falco says of the first single:
I love this song, such a classic melody and brings me back to my childhood Christmas celebrations.
The idea for a second volume came from unfinished business: the band had more songs on its list than could fit on the first record.
Falco adds:
It was a really fun record to produce the first time around and there were still a bunch of songs we wanted to include on volume 1 that couldn’t fit, so we thought why not make a volume 2!
With both volumes the main goal was to just record as many of the undeniable classic Christmas songs as possible. For this volume, I had a running list of the ones we didn’t get to on Volume 1.
For Dust the Halls Vol. 2, that list became the starting point for a record with more room for songwriting and vocal arrangements. Bassist Travis Book brought two original songs to the project, while fiddler Jeremy Garrett found a demo of a song his father, Glenn Garrett, had written with the late Ronnie Bowman. Lane’s appearances added another voice to the sessions.
Dust the Halls Vol. 2 continues a landmark year for The Infamous Stringdusters. In February, the band released 20/20 via their own label Americana Vibes, a twenty-track album marking its 20th anniversary.
The Infamous Stringdusters will wrap up their 2026 touring schedule closing out an east coast run this week with a show at Pisgah Brewing Company in Black Mountain, NC on October 17th. They return to Strings & Sol in Puerto Morelos, Q.R. December 6th-13th and will ring in the new year at Boulder Theater in Boulder, CO on December 30th & 31st.
