2023 Season

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2023 Season

Thank you for an incredible 2023 Summer Concert Series. Our 2024 season announcement and tickets on sale will be around March of 2024. Make sure you follow us on social and sign up to receive emails for more information.

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2023 SEASON

Saturday, May 20, 2023: 49 Winchester Opener: Matt Koziol
Friday, June 2, 2023: Rebirth Brass Band Opener: Hoppie Vaughan
Friday, June 16, 2023: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Opener: Jack Schneider
Friday, June 30, 2023: Sam Bush
Saturday, July 8, 2023: Garrison Keillor featuring Robin and Linda Williams
Sunday, July 9, 2023: Garrison Keillor featuring Robin and Linda Williams
Friday, July 21, 2023: Seldom Scene
Saturday, July 29, 2023: Romeo & Juliet
Saturday, August 12, 2023: Julian Lage Opener: Danny Knicely & Aimee Curl
Friday, August 25, 2023: Dan Tyminski Opener: Maya De Vitry
Saturday, August 26, 2023: Dan Tyminski Opener: Zach Top
Saturday, September 2, 2023: Scott Miller Opener: Colby Helms & The Virginia Creepers
Friday, September 15, 2023: Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Friday, October 6, 2023: Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors Opener: Josiah and the Bonnevilles

Saturday, May 20, 2023

49 Winchester
Opener: Matt Koziol

With its latest album, “Fortune Favors The Bold,” Russell County, Virginia-based 49 Winchester is ready and roaring to break onto the national scene with its unique brand of tear-in-your-beer alt-country, sticky barroom floor rock-n-roll, and high-octane Appalachian folk.

“As we’ve aged and matured, our sound has gone from a softer place to this grittier, edgier tone that we have now,” says lead singer/guitarist Isaac Gibson. “So, we’re trending more towards
being a rock band instead of a country band. But, at the same time, I don’t think anybody’s ever known quite what to call it.”

Although it’s 49 Winchester’s fourth studio album, “Fortune Favors The Bold” marks its debut for Nashville’s New West Records -- one of the premier labels for Americana, indie and rock acts
on the cutting edge of sound, scope and spectacle.

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Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:00pm.

Show sponsored by UTS Systems

Matt Koziol

Rising artist Matt Koziol has collaborated with John Paul White, Joy Oladokun, Jimmie Allen, Charlie Worsham, Steve Moakler, Abby Anderson, Bre Kennedy, and more as a writer for Prescription Songs. And has spent the last few years playing guitar and singing backing vocals for Bre Kennedy.

Koziol is a vibrant songwriter, and personality, who's developed a style of writing, and playing, that appeals to the traveling heart. He focuses on creating a homelike environment for each session; setting his collaborators at ease and making each person feel special. Matt has a knack for pulling remarkable stories from his peers to use as inspiration in the songwriting process.

Taking influence from modern music’s greatest performers, Koziol’s live show will deliver you wherever you need to be in that moment. Whether he’s backed by a full band along with pedal steel and keys, or alone on stage with only his guitar, buckle up for the journey on which you’re about to embark.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

Rebirth Brass Band
Opener: Hoppie Vaughan

For almost 4 decades, the Grammy winning Rebirth Brass Band has been “stunning” fans with a fiery live show and a rich musical catalog. Their trademark sound pays homage to the New Orleans brass band tradition while weaving a tapestry that combines elements of jazz, funk, soul, R&B and the sounds from the streets they grew up on. From their legendary 25+ year run of Tuesday nights at the Maple Leaf to stages all over the world, Rebirth is the soundtrack of the Crescent City and her premier musical ambassador.

Founded by brothers Phil and Keith Frazier over 35 years ago, Rebirth began their career playing on the sidewalks of the French Quarter, and quickly landed gigs at second line parades. Those auspicious beginnings have led to thousands of shows to music aficionados everywhere, including heads of state and royalty.

The bands unique “soundtrack of New Orleans” has also garnered admiration from artists of all genres. They’ve shared the stage and collaborated with everyone from the Grateful Dead to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maceo Parker, Green Day, U2, James Brown, 311, G-Love, MuteMath, Juvenile, Train, Big Freedia, Ani Difranco, Galactic, Allen Touisant, Neville Brothers, Quincy Jones and Trombone Shorty.

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Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:00pm.

Show sponsored in honor of Rockbridge Conservation

Hoppie Vaughan

Rhythm, blues, and soul performer, Hoppie Vaughan has been igniting and expanding the live music scene in Roanoke, Virginia since 1996. As a full-time singer, songwriter, guitar player, bass player, and entertainer, Hoppie and his impressive group, the Ministers of Soul are the house band on Wednesday nights at Blue 5, an upscale live music venue and restaurant in Downtown Roanoke. Eight years running, they still pack the house, delivering an electrifying show you don’t want to miss! Hoppie also performs as solo act, Hoppie Vaughan.

Hoppie’s new album, “Patient Man” released in June, 2018. With nine originals and only one cover, there isn’t a bad or even average track on this gem. What a fitting title for an exceptional music career that started early, developed gradually, and keeps hitting its stride with each new original song. Following a show at Blue 5, Elmer Coles of the Elmer Coles Funktet told Vaughan, "Hoppie, this is yo' time." Nashville song shopper, Chris Keaton, made an excellent point when he told Hoppie, “You know how to wait on it. You got the patience in your playing.”

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
Opener: Jack Schneider

Fifteen-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Ricky Skaggs’ career is easily among the most significant in recent country music history. If Skaggs’ burgeoning trophy case full of awards wasn’t already enough evidence of that fact, consider that legendary guitarist Chet Atkins once credited Skaggs with “single-handedly saving country music.” His life’s path has taken him to various musical genres, from where it all began in bluegrass music, to striking out on new musical journeys, while still leaving his musical roots intact.

Born July 18, 1954 in Cordell, Kentucky, Skaggs showed signs of future stardom at an early age, playing mandolin on stage with bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe at 6 and appearing on TV with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs at 7. He emerged as a professional bluegrass musician in 1971, when he and his friend Keith Whitley were invited to join the legendary Ralph Stanley’s band the Clinch Mountain Boys.

Skaggs then went on to record and perform with progressive bluegrass acts like the Country Gentlemen and J.D. Crowe & the New South, whose self-titled 1975 Rounder Records debut album was instantly recognized as a landmark bluegrass achievement. He then led Boone Creek, which also featured Dobro ace and fellow New South alumnus Jerry Douglas.

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Tickets are $50 in advance or $55 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:00pm.

Spow sponsored by Robert L. Faulkner & Son, Inc.

Jack Schneider

The world of Jack Schneider is one strewn with eccentricity and nostalgia, where a New York cowboy wanders the streets of East Nashville donning a Stetson Range, a purist philosophy, and his beloved 1956 Martin D-28 guitar, Big Jim. Jack is, as some would say, a Nashville triple threat - guitarist, songwriter, and singer, in addition to producer, guitar collector, and analog enthusiast.

Born in New York and raised in Georgia, Jack began making trips to Gruhn Guitars in Nashville when he was in high school, seeking to quench his insatiable thirst for knowledge of fretted instruments. Despite attending university in New York, he spent most school breaks and long weekends in Music City, working summers at
Gruhn’s; it was there that he met and befriended Vince Gill, among other musical heroes. With one foot in New York and one in Nashville, Jack expanded his network as both a session player and an artist in both cities, gracing the stages of The Bitter End and The Bluebird Cafe with equal character and charm.

Since graduating from NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2019, Jack has added significantly to his laundry list of accomplishments: he’s toured with Vince Gill as both guitar tech and player, produced records for multiple up-and-coming Nashville artists (recorded to tape, of course), released his first single to critical acclaim, played the Grand Ole Opry, and delivered a series of “vanishing albums:” full-length records accessible for a week
at a time each during the pandemic, after which they were removed from streaming services and unavailable for physical purchase. Most recently, Jack recorded his debut non-vanishing record with the likes of David Rawlings, Vince Gill, Stewart Duncan, and Dennis Crouch. With a reverence for folk music and an instrumental prowess that
captivates audiences everywhere, Jack Schneider is a sharp answer to the ever-urgent question of modern day artistic authenticity.

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Sam Bush

There was only one prize-winning teenager carrying stones big enough to say thanks, but no thanks to Roy Acuff. Only one son of Kentucky finding a light of inspiration from Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys and catching a fire from Bob Marley and The Wailers. Only one progressive hippie allying with like-minded conspirators, rolling out the New Grass revolution, and then leaving the genre’s torch-bearing band behind as it reached its commercial peak.

There is only one consensus pick of peers and predecessors, of the traditionalists, the rebels, and the next gen devotees. Music’s ultimate inside outsider. Or is it outside insider?

There is only one Sam Bush.

On a Bowling Green, Kentucky cattle farm in the post-war 1950s, Bush grew up an only son, and with four sisters. His love of music came immediately, encouraged by his parents’ record collection and, particularly, by his father Charlie, a fiddler, who organized local jams. Charlie envisioned his son someday a staff fiddler at the Grand Ole Opry, but a clear day’s signal from Nashville brought to Bush’s television screen a tow-headed boy named Ricky Skaggs playing mandolin with Flatt and Scruggs, and an epiphany for Bush. At 11, he purchased his first mandolin.

As a teen fiddler Bush was a three-time national champion in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler’s Contest. He recorded an instrumental album, Poor Richard’s Almanac as a high school senior and in the spring of 1970 attended the Fiddlers Convention in Union Grove, NC. There he heard the New Deal String Band, taking notice of their rock-inspired brand of progressive bluegrass.

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Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 at the door.
Show starts at 8:00pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm.

Show sponsored by Leslie Mini Excavating

Saturday, July 8, 2023

Garrison Keillor feat. Robin & Linda Williams

Garrison Keillor, author of Lake Wobegon Days and the creator of A Prairie Home Companion brings his gentle wit and Midwestern sense of humor to the stage with a show “Garrison Keillor with Robin and Linda Williams”. As longtime fans have come to expect, Garrison intersperses songs, humorous stories and musical performances with Robin and Linda.

Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota. In 1974, he created his popular variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, which — for more than 40 years — delighted some 4 million listeners on 700 public radio stations coast to coast and beyond. He also hosted The Writer’s Almanac, a five-minute, daily broadcast featuring poetry and historical notes of literary significance. He has been honored with Grammy, ACE, and George Foster Peabody awards, the National Humanities Medal, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His several dozen books include The Keillor Reader, That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life, Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel, and Serenity at 70, Gaiety at 80.

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Tickets are $45 in advance or $50 at the door.
Show starts at 8:00pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm.

Show sponsored by Lexington Real Estate Connection

SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2023

Note that this concert is not part of the Season Pass.

Tickets are $45 in advance or $50 at the door.
Show starts at 7:00pm.
Doors open at 5:30pm.

Show sponsored by: Charles W. Barger & Son

Friday, July 21, 2023

The Seldom Scene

The Seldom Scene was established in 1971 in a basement in Bethesda, Maryland. The original line-up, our Founding Scene Fathers, was John Starling on guitar, Mike Auldridge on Dobro, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Tom Gray on double bass, and John Duffey on mandolin. Charlie Waller, a member of the Country Gentlemen, can be credited for the band's name... Expressing his doubt that this new band could succeed, Waller reportedly asked Duffey, "What are you going to call yourselves, the seldom seen?" The band performed weekly at the Red Fox Inn before getting a residency at the
Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Virginia. The rest is history.

The progressive bluegrass style played by the Seldom Scene had become increasingly popular during the 1970s. Their weekly shows included bluegrass versions of country music, rock, and pop. The band's popularity soon forced them to play more than once a week — but they continued to maintain their image as being seldom seen, and on several of their early album covers were photographed with the stage lights on only their feet, or with their backs to the camera. Though the Scene remained a non-touring band, they were prolific recorders, producing seven albums in their first five years of existence, including one live album (among the first live bluegrass albums).

Since forming, the band has gone through numerous lineup changes. The last big shakeup happened in 1995, when Duffey and Eldridge, the two remaining original members, recruited dobro player Fred Travers, bassist Ronnie Simpkins, and guitarist Dudley Connell to join the band. Mandolinist Lou Reid returned the following year and in 2017 Ron Stewart joined as the new banjo player. The current band has been together the longest in Seldom Scene history, and for good reason... With an inventive take on bluegrass, the Seldom Scene has displayed both their original material and their interpretations of songs from limitless genres.

Long live the Seldom Scene.

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Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.
Show starts at 8:00pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm.

Show sponsored by Pure Eats

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare

Brawls are breaking out in the streets of Verona. The feud between the Capulets and Montagues is at a boiling point, and the Prince himself has stepped in to keep the peace. So when Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) suddenly fall in love, the world is against them from the start. The famously star-crossed lovers struggle against domineering parents, the laws of church and state, and even their own affections in Shakespeare’s breathless tale of a love that transformed the city of Verona.

Ages 8+ | 2.5 hours, including 15 min intermission.

Tickets are $15 in advance or $15 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm.

Note that this concert is not part of the Season Pass.

Saturday, August 12, 2023

Julian Lage
Opener: Danny Knicely and Aimee Curl

Guitarist Julian Lage expands his horizons on View With A Room, a collection of 10 compelling original compositions that marks his second release for Blue Note Records. Having established a home base with his brilliant and deeply attuned trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King — most recently heard on the guitarist’s acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut Squint — Lage casts his gaze outward to discover new orchestrational possibilities with the addition of six-string icon Bill Frisell, who adds his inimitable voice to this absolutely stunning album.

Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation and “highest category of improvising musicians" (New Yorker), Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility. The California-born New York-based musician boasts a prolific resume on his own accord in addition to collaborating with Gary Burton and John Zorn, as well as duo projects with Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch, among others.

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Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:00pm.

Show sponsored by Lexington & Rockbridge Area Tourism

Danny Knicely and Aimee Curl

Multi-instrumentalist Danny Knicely, originally from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, comes from a musical family reaching back for generations. He has won many awards for his mandolin, guitar, fiddle and dance expertise and has the uncanny ability to thrive in and elevate most any musical situation. He has performed with many artists in many genres and appears on hundreds of recordings. Danny is a pioneer in jazz mandolin and is involved in various collaborative world music projects. He has shared his music and collaborated with musicians in over a dozen countries spanning four continents including US State Department tours in Russia, Tunisia, Morocco and Cabo Verde.

Aimee Curl has an unmistakable sound and style that combine in a musician of incredible depth. She has a voice distinctive with emotion and sincerity that makes even the most hardened listener soften and swoon. Aimee grew up singing more than talking. In her early teens, she learned the lap dulcimer and joined her first band. She then began singing more and experimenting with other instruments, such as guitar, fiddle, and bass. Her first professional experience was a twelve-year stint playing the electric bass and touring the country with the American folk-rock quartet ThaMuseMeant. Later, while studying voice at the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, she picked up the upright bass fiddle. Aimee resides in Virginia, and performs at major festivals and venues in the U.S. and overseas.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2023

Dan Tyminski Band
Opener: Maya De Vitry

Throughout his 30+ year career, Dan Tyminski has left his mark in every corner of modern music. Tyminski’s voice famously accompanies George Clooney's performance of the Stanley Brother's classic song, "I'm A Man of Constant Sorrow," in the film, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou and his vocal collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii on the song “Hey, Brother” was a global smash, having been streamed over 1 billion times to date.

Dan has also contributed guitar and/or harmony to projects by Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Aaron Lewis and Rob Thomas, to name a few. In addition to his highly successful solo career, Dan Tyminski has played guitar and mandolin for Alison Krauss and Union Station since 1994. His unmatched instrumental skills and burnished, soulful tenor voice have been key components of the band.

Dan has been honored with 14 Grammy Awards, was named Male Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association 4x and was recognized as 2004’s Male Vocalist of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America.

Maya De Vitry

Maya de Vitry’s dynamic and vibrant voice seems to rise out of some necessity of bringing songs to life, embracing listeners with what Folk Alley calls a “soulful intimacy”. She grew up in a musical family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, understanding music to be a place of gathering, a way to spend a summer night by a campfire. She was surrounded by bluegrass and old-time music, and country, gospel, and folk songs. She took piano lessons from her grandmother, and took up classical violin in school, but it was some combination of the groove-centered fiddle music of Appalachia, the vulnerable poetry in Townes Van Zandt’s songwriting, and the deeply emotive phrasing of Billie Holiday’s singing that first compelled her to begin creating tunes and songs of her own – and it was around campfires that she slowly found the courage to begin singing them.
Maya first traveled and performed as a fiddling street musician, and then in bars, theaters, and on festival stages as a founding member of The Stray Birds. When the trio parted ways in 2018, Maya embarked on an ever-evolving musical path of solo work and new collaborations. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, she enjoys moving between acoustic and electric worlds, playing in the musical spaces between folk, country, and indie rock – although she thinks of it all as “song music”. Her recordings and live performances embody both sincerity and playfulness, and a compelling reverence for the power of songs to be a place of gathering – whether played on stage, or around a campfire.

Maya tours with her acoustic trio, and with her electric band, each featuring a fluid lineup of consistently stellar musicians who create a powerfully dynamic show. An engaging solo performer and an inspired collaborator, Maya also enjoys the art of warming up the stage for other artists and she has been invited to support a variety of tours, from innovative singer-songwriters like John Craigie and Aoife O’Donovan, to the roots-minded supergroup Mighty Poplar.

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Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:00pm.

Show sponsored by UTS Systems

Note that this concert is not part of the Season Pass.

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Dan Tyminski Band
Opener: Zach Top

Throughout his 30+ year career, Dan Tyminski has left his mark in every corner of modern music. Tyminski’s voice famously accompanies George Clooney's performance of the Stanley Brother's classic song, "I'm A Man of Constant Sorrow," in the film, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou and his vocal collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii on the song “Hey, Brother” was a global smash, having been streamed over 1 billion times to date.

Dan has also contributed guitar and/or harmony to projects by Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Aaron Lewis and Rob Thomas, to name a few. In addition to his highly successful solo career, Dan Tyminski has played guitar and mandolin for Alison Krauss and Union Station since 1994. His unmatched instrumental skills and burnished, soulful tenor voice have been key components of the band.

Dan has been honored with 14 Grammy Awards, was named Male Vocalist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association 4x and was recognized as 2004’s Male Vocalist of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America.

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Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door.
Show starts at 7:30pm.
Doors open at 6:00pm.

Show sponsored by Kendal at Lexington

Zach Top

When contemporary influences expand country music’s parameters, you’ll hear “Country Music ain’t like it used to be” as a common refrain. But 24-year-old Zach Top is reviving the spirit of 90’s traditionalists like George Strait, Keith Whitley, and Randy Travis with classic vibes that evoke the dance halls of Texas, the roar of the rodeo, and jukebox ballads with a cold beer in hand.

There’s nothing more current than old school country to Zach, who grew up on a ranch in Washington State. He recalls rockin’ Marty Robbins’ Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs while riding out to feed livestock each day and forming a bluegrass band with his siblings at the age of seven. In his teens, he joined Seattle-based band North Country and later became a member of Modern Tradition (winners of the 2017 SPBGMA International Band Competition). When his honky-tonk dreams took him to Nashville, his single “Like It Ain’t No Thing” (RBR Entertainment) hit #1 on the Bluegrass Today chart. As it turns out, his skills as a traditional instrumentalist and storyteller did more than establish credibility with aficionados – it earned him a crucial publishing deal with Bob Doyle’s Major Bob Music and created an instant bond with the very guys who wrote the hits of his heroes.

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Saturday, September 2, 2023

Scott Miller
Opener: Colby Helms & The Virginia Creepers

Recently inducted to the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, fiery roots-rock singer/songwriter Scott Miller returned to his native Virginia to tend the family farm while continuing to release & perform new music informed by that rural area, history & Appalachia. The Staunton native first made a name for himself in the 90s as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter with the superb pop/rock band the V-Roys before establishing himself as a gifted and eclectic solo artist, first with his ad hoc group the Commonwealth & later on his own. “[Miller combines] the emotional honesty & intelligence of a singer/songwriter with the swagger and enthusiasm of a rock &roller... a gifted and eclectic solo artist.” (AllMusic.com). As seen on tour with Patty Griffin, Robbie Fulks, Paul Thorn & American Aquarium.

“Scott Miller’s songwriting has always balanced wit with woe.” (Relix)

“Long before co-founding that dapper twangpop outfit [The V-Roys], Miller logged many miles on the singer-songwriter trail as kind of a cross between John Prine & Loudon Wainwright III.” (No Depression)

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Colby Helms & The Virginia Creepers

Joined by his band The Virginia Creepers, Colby Helms cut his teeth with countless gigs around the area. He also shared a series of arresting D.I.Y. performance videos on YouTube, including “Smoke and Flames.” With starkly honest songwriting and a sharp angular twang to his vocals, he struck a dynamic balance between country storytelling, blue grass energy, and blues power. He caught the attention of Photo Finish Records and inked a deal with the label in 2023.
Now, he’s shining a light on a very special part of America and offering up hope.

“When you listen to me, I hope you feel like you’re not alone and you have a chance to fulfill your purpose,” he leaves off. “Everyone deserves to know this. I also want you to know Appalachia is not just a dead-end place full of dead-end people. There is still growth happening here. I’m trying to give you a taste of our way of life.”

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