Tonight, Friday, December 26th, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers and Eggy will premiere A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular, a full-concert video special captured with cinematic 4K video and high-resolution audio as part of the two bands’ recent five-show mini-tour together [tune in here].
Recorded on the second night of a two-night stint at Woodstock, NY’s Bearsville Theater on September 30th, 2025, A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular showcases the midpoint of that run—and, in the process, highlights the genuine inspiration, gratitude, and musical kinship at its core.
Case in point: When Eggy hit the stage for soundcheck at Charlottesville, VA’s Lincoln Theatre on September 27th, the first night of the tour, Eggy’s Jake Brownstein (guitar, vocals), Dani Battat (keys, vocals), Mike Goodman (bass, vocals), and Alex Bailey (drums, vocals) had never actually met Bruce Hornsby, the man who they had cited on many occasions as not just their biggest influence but a key factor in their bonding and growth as a creative unit for more than a decade.
That night, as Bruce & The Noisemakers and Eggy got acquainted and began peeling back layers of context, admiration, and influence at the root of the joint billing, the only onstage crossover between the two bands came when Eggy’s Goodman and Bailey added vocal harmonies on “My Resolve”, the 2020 track Hornsby once described as a “Sisyphean tale of the creative life, of the ups and downs.”
“In my resolve, I move the rock,” Bruce, Mike, and Alex sang together at the Lincoln Theatre. At the time, that harmony sounded like a revelation, a longtime dream realized. But it was only the beginning.
A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular illustrates just how far this combo had “moved the rock” by the tour’s third night: The one-night-only stream, which presents both bands’ full sets from 9/30/25, includes sit-ins by Bruce Hornsby and multiple members of The Noisemakers during Eggy’s set in addition to guest appearances by all four members of Eggy throughout much of Hornsby’s headlining performance. By this point in the tour, it was no longer simply a two-band bill—it was a genuinely collaborative affair.
Although various layers of context contributed emotional heft to each of the seven crossover numbers on 9/30/25 in at Bearsville Theater, a truly memorable “My Resolve” once again served as an emblematic highlight: In Charlottesville, “My Resolve” had planted the collaborative seed. In Woodstock, with Mike and Alex reprising their harmonies and Jake and Dani fully integrated into the production on their respective instruments, the same song spoke to the ways in which their relationship with Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers had already bloomed.
“And I move on up, above the hill, to maybe fully flower,” they sang, the words taking on new meaning amid a life-altering week for Eggy.
“They’ll be back after they go hug,” Bruce told the Bearsville Theater crowd when the song was finished, well aware of what that moment had meant to his new collaborators.
An assortment of snippets from the tour have made their way online in the months since, but A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular will mark the first chance for fans not in attendance that night at Bearsville Theater to experience this momentous connection in full.
As the stream’s director, producer, editor, and audio mixer Jesse Lauter explained to Live For Live Music, bringing A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular to fans was an intensive labor of love.
“We wanted to make it feel great,” Lauter explained of the concert film. “We spent a lot of time on this. Bruce doesn’t really livestream anything … so it took some convincing to get the cameras in the room. Then, it wasn’t going to be streamed live [in real-time], so it was like, ‘Okay, what are we going to do with this?’ [Bruce] was very hands-on with me through the [post-production] process. I went down to Williamsburg, VA and we got the mix going there. I finished it up at my place [in New York City], edited it very meticulously.”
The finished product, he explained, reflects the magic and intimacy in the room at the Bearsville Theater that night. “It’s really just about the music and the sound and experiencing what a Noisemakers show really is, because it’s such a crazy conversation.”
“For me,” he added, “the biggest thing is that I’ve come out of this process a huge Bruce fan. The Eggy guys have been telling me [about their Bruce adoration] for several years, and now I’m, like, full-blown obsessed. I’ve become a total evangelist for Bruce. He’s a brilliant artist, maybe one of the most brilliant in the last half-century … So, the hope is by making this video, people can see and feel that.”
Tune in on nugs here tonight, Friday, December 26th at 8:30 p.m. ET for the one-night-only streaming premiere of A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular. Scroll to follow along with the full setlist while you watch.
Ahead of the stream, you can get a taste of the two bands’ flowering connection with this pro-shot video of “Candy Mountain Run” from the night prior at Bearsville Theater below.
Much like we did for this piece in 2023, Live For Live Music rode along in the van with Eggy during the Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers tour for a long-form, behind-the-scenes feature article. Keep your eyes peeled for that in early 2026.
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers ft. Eggy – “Candy Mountain Run” [Pro-Shot] – 9/29/25
Setlist: A Hornsby-Eggy Holiday Spectacular – Live from the Bearsville Theater – Recorded 9/30/25
Set One [Eggy]: Smile, Wayless, Woah There [1], Waiting Game [2], Parceled Serotonin
Set Two [Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers]: Resting Place [3], Stander on the Mountain [3], Line in the Dust [4], My Resolve [5], Across the River, Mandolin Rain, Funhouse [6], The Tango King, The Dreaded Spoon, M.I.A. in M.I.A.M.I., TSA Man, Over the Rise, Great Divide
Encore: Nobody There but Me
Notes:
[1] with Bruce Hornsby on piano
[2] with Gibb Droll (Noisemakers) on guitar and John Mailander (Noisemakers) on mandolin
[3] with Jake Brownstein (Eggy) on guitar and Dani Battat (Eggy) on keys
[4] with Mike Goodman (Eggy) on bass, Jake Brownstein (Eggy) on guitar, Dani Battat (Eggy) on keys
[5] with Alex Bailey (Eggy) and Mike Goodman (Eggy) on harmony vocals, Jake Brownstein (Eggy) on guitar, and Dani Battat (Eggy) on keys
[6] with Jake Brownstein (Eggy) on guitar, Dani Battat (Eggy) on keys, Alex Bailey (Eggy) on background vocals and percussion
[7] Bruce Hornsby on dulcimer
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