In 2002, Granner/Bledsoe performed classical music in a rock club for the first time at The Social in Orlando, FL with Mercy Machine and In 2006, he and
classical guitarist, Beau Bledsoe (Granner/Bledsoe), performed a multi-city tour of their show
Mozart Was a Punk: How to Make Classical Music Not Suck. The programme draws from many genres, including opera,
art song,
gospel,
flamenco,
folk song and
Baroque and forms the basis of their 2007 CD,
Departure. In 2005 Nathan Granner was awarded Alumnus of the year from UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. In 2007 Granner/Bledsoe performed in Perm, Russia for the "Diaghilev Seasons Festival." In 2008 Nathan Granner co-founded KCMetropolis.org; Kansas City's Journal of the Arts a weekly online magazine. In 2011 Granner Artistic Directed and performed in "Homecoming, an Evening with Virgil T," the first national PBS taping at the
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. In 2011-2012 Granner produced The American Tenors national tour for Nashville-based tour company Live on Stage. In 2012 he co-founded Gulley/Granner an operatic tenor duo. In 2014 he performed the tenor roles in
Astor Piazzolla's tango operita
Maria de Buenos Aires in
Szczecin, Poland. In 2017 he performed as The Magician in
Long Beach Opera's
The Consul. In 2018 he performed as Dr. Morel in
Long Beach Opera's
The Invention of Morel. ==Recordings==