Hayde defy any notion that bluegrass needs to be confined to Appalachia or any other corner of the American heartland. With a critically acclaimed debut album, a wealth of praise from critics throughout the continent, Hayde has embarked on successful tours and landed bookings with the biggest festivals.

With and an instrumental acumen that defines them as musicians with a determined drive and dynamic, the band — Rebekka Nilsson (vocals), Ole Enggrav (guitar), Moa Meinich (fiddle), Charles Butler (banjo), Emil Brattested (dobro, mandolin), Sjur Marqvardsen (accordion), and David Buverud (upright bass) — have helped reinvent the idea of roots music in a new and imaginative way.

They were nominated for Band of the Year honors during the 2022 IBMA Momentum Award honors, and then capped that accomplishment by winning the Vocalist of the Year award.

One of the first songs they ever recorded was a take on the classic folk song “Wayfaring Stranger,” which, to their amazement, racked up millions of plays on YouTube, many of them from listeners in the U.S. It has surpassed twenty million plays so far, bringing their YouTube channel over 65,000 subscribers in the process.