New Faces, New Home, Exciting Direction
PRESS RELEASE • Rockin’ Acoustic Circus – New Faces, New Home, Exciting Direction • Nashville, TN, November 29, 2011: Rockin’ Acoustic Circus announces they’re “setting up shop” in Nashville with some new faces and their “doors open for business.” “With hearts in traditional music and heads in the 21st century, this progressive acoustic group is pointing toward an exciting direction for music. “ Sharing their passion with impressive musical... Read More
The Ted Lehmann Interview
The Ted Lehmann Interview • The Bluegrass Legacy talks to Ted Lehmann about the past, the present and the future, including the challenges facing the Bluegrass Community Today BGL • Ted, you have done nothing short a herculean job of documenting the past and present of bluegrass, and exploring its future, as a journalist and photo-journalist. How in the world did you get yourself into this? Where and how did it start? TL • I’ve always... Read More
Jubal’s Kin
Jubal’s Kin • The distinctively spare sound is grounded in a love for what can only be called the pure and real, at once embracing both a strong roots tradition and yet creating a sound all their own – dubbed as "Appalachia-infused Cosmic Americana." At live shows or in the studio, a seemingly new subgenre is created, their songs displaying raw emotion – vulnerable and unassuming – with handcrafted spins that creak and stomp like a wooden dance... Read More
Calico Moon
Calico Moon • You never know when love will come around. Mark and Aimee Bumgarner, the husband-and-wife team who make up Calico Moon, embody this truth both in their personal story and in their music. Together, their sound is a seamless blend of cosmic country music and pure mountain soul, sharpened by an eclectic edge that places them squarely in the thriving Americana tradition. “It was a chance encounter at a Del McCoury concert at the Orange Peel in Asheville,... Read More
Pharis & Jason Romero
Pharis & Jason Romero • Coming from a thousand miles and a border apart, Pharis and Jason Romero met in 2007 at an old-time fiddle jam. Both had been playing music for decades – Pharis her whole life – and both were drawn to early country, old time, blues, bluegrass, and fiddle-banjo music. In 2010 they moved their home and the J. Romero Banjo Company north to Pharis’ hometown, the small interior B.C. town of Horsefly. In this wilderness hamlet they build their... Read More
Shovels & Rope
Shovels & Rope • Necessity is the mother of invention. Less is more. Make it work with what you’ve got. 2 Guitars, a junkyard drum kit (harvested from an actual garbage heap – adorned with tambourines, flowers and kitchen rags), a handful of harmonicas, voices, and above all… songs. Cary Ann Hearst & Michael Trent prefer to keep it simple. They have cleverly managed to take 3 separate recording projects and combine them into one cohesive, folk rock,... Read More
Knee-Deep in Bluegrass with Cindy Baucom
Knee-Deep in Bluegrass with Cindy Baucom • A love of Bluegrass was instilled in me early in life. My father, a Bluegrass musician, frequently had band practices at our home as I was growing up in the mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina. "As a child I attended Fiddlers Conventions and Bluegrass Festivals, having the opportunity to hear some of the best music anywhere. More important, I started building many close friendships which remain with me today." My... Read More
Aaron Malone "On The Road" with "Sleep With One Eye Open"
Aaron Malone of Fitzmaurice "On The Road" with "Sleep With One Eye Open" by Chris Thile & Michael Daves • I’m in my car, having just hit the road on my way from my home in Southern Maryland up to Annapolis to meet up with the band to make our journey up to New Jersey for the weekend. Got my iPod hooked up and I’m opening the new album from Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Sleep With One Eye Open. This is probably the 5th time I’ve listened to... Read More
That Just Happened on WSM
Join Josh Shilling & Jim Van Cleve of Mountain Heart, Tuesday December 13th, 2011 from 2:00 pm CT till 3:00 pm on WSM Radio as they pay tribute to the legendary Guy Clark and play selections from his new tribute album, from the record and live in the studio with Guy, Shawn Camp, Verlon Thompson and Tamara Saviano. You don’t want to miss this, the final Mountain Heart "That Just Happened" show of 2011 "That Just Happened" on WSM • www.wsmonline.com... Read More
Class Act Entertainment
Class Act Entertainment is a full service booking agency representing premier performing artists since 1993. "In addition to representing an exclusive roster of performing artists, we also secure talent for corporate functions, parties, and special events." Mike Drudge, founder of Class Act Entertainment, worked for four years performing with the Grand Ole Opry’s Jim & Jesse Show. In addition to performing in the band, Mike represented the... Read More
