2026 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

Our 2026 Summer Concert Series
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Saturday, May 9, 2026
​hiss golden Messenger

Opener: The Golden Hours
Hiss Golden Messenger is the long-running musical project led by North Carolina-based singer, songwriter, and producer M.C. Taylor. The project has evolved over the last decade into one of the most respected and celebrated in contemporary Americana, blending folk, country, soul, and gospel influences with deeply introspective, poetic, and conscious songwriting.

Across multiple critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated albums, Hiss Golden Messenger has become known for its warmth and emotional clarity, as well as Taylor’s ability to connect the personal and poetic with the political without losing intimacy or musical grace.

The forthcoming I’m People continues this trajectory, offering a reflective collection of songs that speak to resilience, community, radical hopefulness, and the quiet human moments that animate and illuminate the everyday. It is among Taylor’s greatest and most profound works.

Hiss Golden Messenger sits naturally alongside artists and releases that value craft, storytelling, and authenticity, and aligns well with audiences attuned to indie, folk, Americana, roots, and contemporary country music.
The Golden Hours
Catch the unveiling of The Golden Hours, a new Charlottesville-based band formed by the members of acclaimed indie-folk acts Lowland Hum and David Wax Museum. These musicians have been touring and recording for over 20 years, featured on CBS Saturday Morning and NPR’s Tiny Desk, and lauded by The New York Times, Washington Post, TIME and Rolling Stone, among others. The Golden Hours’ debut record Terra Nova (to be released in 2026) includes “Day Wheel,” an NPR Music Song of the Day. The forthcoming album brings together the power of these four songwriters in an artifact that is simultaneously lush and distilled, emotionally probing, and conceptually expansive. 
Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Saturday, May 16, 2026
​Trey Hensley Band

​Opener: ​Colby Helms & The Virginia Creepers
GRAMMY® winner and reigning two-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year. Trey Hensley has been called a “musical phenom” by NPR, “a guitar-slinging superhero” by Bluegrass Today, “Nashville’s hottest young player" by Acoustic Guitar magazine, and “the Swiss Army knife of roots music” by WMOT Radio’s Craig Havighurst.

Hensley’s artistry has received high praise from the likes of Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart. An Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival invitee who has collaborated with Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Taj Mahal, and Tommy Emmanuel, Hensley is known for his other-worldly guitar playing, jaw-dropping musicianship, and soulful storytelling. Having recently announced his signature guitar with Taylor Guitars: The Trey Hensley Gold Label 510e, Hensley is set to release a new album, Can’t Outrun The Blues, on March 6, 2026. The title cut has spent multiple weeks at #1 on the bluegrass charts.
​Colby Helms & The Virginia Creepers
At the bottom of the Southwest Virginia foothills half-a-mile from the nearest neighbor, 21-year-old Colby T. Helms resides in an “underground house” built by his late father on land his family has owned for generations. Colby first dreamed of making music his life at age 12, when a group of Blue Ridge Mountain old-time and bluegrass players performed songs like The Ozark Mountain Daredevils’ “Standing On The Rock” and the gospel classic “A Beautiful Life” at his father’s funeral in Boones Mill, VA. To make his dream a reality, he taught himself guitar, banjo, and mandolin by watching local performers and YouTube videos. On the day he turned 16, he bought his first car, a stick-shift Jeep Wrangler, and hit the road to play anywhere people would have him.
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A veteran performer in the Blue Ridge/Appalachian Mountains region by age 18, Colby wrote the songs that would become his upcoming semi-autobiographical concept album, ‘Tales of Misfortune’, as a senior in high school. The album delves into the beginning of his story - starting off as a dream and ending with the passing and remembrance of his father. “Higher Ground” is about the choices he has made to realize his dream of becoming a touring musician - and their cost. “Mountain Brandy” brings the listener back to Colby’s home at the bottom of the Blue Ridge Mountains and sets the tone for the rest of the album. “Smoke and Flames” chronicles his experience as a fledgling musician, honing his craft and searching for validation while still in high school. Album closer "Daddy's Pocket Knife" cuts the deepest. A true story that also serves as a metaphor for Colby's own artistic journey, it reminds us that some things lost can be found. Colby T. Helms will release his debut album on Photo Finish Records in January 2024. He is managed by Dolphus Ramseur and booked by Paul Lohr and John Everhart of New Frontier Touring.
Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

fRIDAY, May 22, 2026
Sierra Hull

Sierra Hull is a seven-time IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year, six-time Grammy nominee, and one of the most dynamic voices in bluegrass and Americana. Her latest album, A Tip Toe High Wire, marks a bold new chapter - her first independent release - spotlighting her songwriting and instrumental prowess. Featuring guest appearances by Béla Fleck, Tim O’Brien, and Aoife O'Donovan, the album balances tradition with innovation. The project has been met with widespread acclaim and is nominated for four GRAMMY Awards, including Best Bluegrass Album, underscoring Hull’s continued evolution as one of acoustic music’s most visionary artists.

“She’s positioning herself as a musical force not only in bluegrass, but in various genre circles.” - Rolling Stone

“A Tip Toe High Wire upholds her reverence for bluegrass traditions, while simultaneously looking forward with unique collaborations.” - Billboard
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​Hull has shared stages with legends like Alison Krauss, Eric Clapton, Sturgill Simpson, Slash, and Robert Randolph, blending technical mastery with heartfelt storytelling. In 2025, Hull performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk and The Kelly Clarkson Show in support of the album. Building on an already accomplished year, Hull became the first female artist honored with a Gibson signature mandolin and was also awarded the Tennessee Governor’s Distinguished Arts Award.
​Mason Via
Mason Via is an Appalachian troubadour who was born and bred in the Blue Ridge Mountains but now makes his home in Gator Country: Gainesville, FL. An alumnus of Old Crow Medicine Show, he earned a Grammy-nomination for his work on the band’s chart-topping Folk album, Jubilee.

His new self titled album came out in April 2025 and debuted at #12 on Billboard Bluegrass Album chart. The song “Melt in the Sun” has gone to #1 on the Sirius XM Bluegrass show. Mason toured in 2025 with bluegrass stars like Sierra Hull, I’m With Her, and the Wood Brothers.  His songwriting can also be seen on Grammy-winning & Grammy nominated albums by bluegrass icons, Molly Tuttle and Del McCoury. During his time in Nashville, TN he was praised by NPR as one of the top 10 artists thriving in Bluegrass music. Be ready for an exciting show full of high-octane bluegrass energy paired with emotionally gripping lyrics that will have you dancing and singing along by the end of the night.
Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2026
​Dan Tyminski Band

Dan Tyminski was six years old when his parents began taking him to fiddle contests, square dances, and bluegrass festivals across New England. For a young musician who would later become one of the biggest names in modern-day bluegrass, those early experiences were life changing.

"Watching live music always spoke to me much louder than sitting in front of my record player," he remembers. "I loved it. Wherever music was being played, I wanted to go watch. Years later, I still feel that way."

Throughout his 30+ year career, Tyminski has left his mark in every corner of modern music. His voice famously accompanies George Clooney’s performance of the Stanley Brothers’ classic song, “I Am 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 more than a billion times to date. His diverse solo projects and years of work with Alison Krauss and Union Station have yielded troves of award-winning music.  
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In recent years, Tyminski’s live shows with the Dan Tyminski Band have become bluegrass fan favorites and are regularly on the must-see lists among music fans of any genre.

With his newest album release – the Grammy-nominated 2024 concert album Dan Tyminski: Live From The Ryman – he captures the magic of those live shows, while also proving that he still has the same passion for live music as he did when he was growing up. 

His earliest touring and recording work was as a part of the band, Green Mountain Bluegrass. He later joined the influential bluegrass group, Lonesome River Band, before embarking on his three decades of work with Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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The first album that Tyminski recorded as a solo artist was the soul-stirring Carry Me Across the Mountain (2000), followed by the Grammy-nominated Wheels (2008) which was named the 2009 Album of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.  His work with the EDM artist, Avicii, inspired Dan to create the genre-defying Southern Gothic album, released in 2017 to much critical acclaim. Tyminski would then showcase again his heart for bluegrass with the 2022 EP tribute to Tony Rice, One More Time Before You Go, which included guest performances by Molly Tuttle, Sam Bush, Dailey & Vincent, and Billy Strings. The following year saw the release of the full-length bluegrass album, God Fearing Heathen, which quickly hit #1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart.  

Over the course of his career, Tyminski has also evolved into a prolific songwriter, penning songs with Monty Criswell, Phillip Lammonds, Kristian Bush, Ashley Monroe, Chris Stapleton and many others. Dan has been honored with 14 Grammy Awards and is a four-time Male Vocalist of the Year honoree by the International Bluegrass Music Association. He has also recorded instrumental or vocal harmony contributions for projects by Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Joan Osborne, Charlie Daniels, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Rob Thomas, and Charlie Haden, to name a few. Tyminski certainly represents the pinnacle of modern bluegrass music. 

While Dan enjoys a good conversation and a good cigar, he can often be found participating in charitable Pro-Am golf tournaments, as well as competing regularly in the Foosball tournament circuit. ​
​Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

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Not Included in Season Pass

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026
​The Steeldrivers

Opener: Tanasi
Only Nashville could give birth to a band like the SteelDrivers: a group of seasoned veterans –each distinguished in his or her own right, each valued in the town’s commercial community –who are seizing an opportunity to follow their hearts to their souls’ reward. In doing so, they are braiding their bluegrass roots with new threads of their own design, bringing together country, soul, blues, and other contemporary influences to create an unapologetic hybrid that is old as the hills but fresh as the morning dew. This is new music with the old feeling. SteelDrivers fan Vince Gill describes the band’s fusion as simply "an incredible combination."

Specializing in a unique mix of what might be called bluegrass soul, the SteelDrivers have become one of the biggest names in progressive bluegrass after making their debut in 2005.
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While there's a strong traditional streak in the SteelDrivers' sound, they bring a passion to their delivery that adds a distinctive flavor, and they're not afraid of adding a forceful grit to the music.The SteelDrivers have been nominated for five Grammys, including one in 2025 for Best Bluegrass Album, the Americana Music Association’s New Artist of the Year and was IBMA’s 2009 Emerging Artist of The Year. In 2015, “The Muscle Shoals Recordings” won the Grammy award for Best Bluegrass Recording. The quintet signed with Sun Records in 2025 and released Grammy Nominated album “Outrun” to great critical acclaim. The SteelDrivers are: Richard Bailey (banjo), Tammy Rogers (fiddle), Mike Fleming (bass), Brent Truitt (mandolin) and Matt Dame(Guitar).
Tanasi
“To me, TANASI is Appalachian music without guardrails — a sound that’s a culmination of our ever-evolving, unconventional paths, shaped by unpredictable winds, formed by unexpected hands, and forged together with joyful, emergent strength.”
TANASI is a worldgrass trio rooted in Appalachian string band tradition while moving freely and respectfully through global musical landscapes. Featuring the pioneering slide work of Billy Cardine alongside the luminous, tightly interwoven harmonies of Anya Hinkle and Mary Lucey, the trio creates music shaped not by boundaries of genre, but by decades of listening, travel, and shared experience.

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In 2026, TANASI brings this distinctive sound to major U.S. festival stages including RockyGrass, Strawberry, and Red Wing Roots festivals, with additional appearances to be announced, as they introduce audiences to their self-titled debut album, TANASI, releasing May 2026.
The album reflects a life lived in motion. Long before forming as a trio, its members were independently immersed in musical traditions spanning Appalachia, Africa, Asia, India, Hawai’i and beyond — learning directly from musicians, teaching, collaborating, and discovering the deep connective sinews between rhythm, melody, and human expression. Rather than blending styles for novelty, TANASI reveals natural meeting points across traditions, where music feels shared rather than borrowed.
“At a moment when it feels like our country is looking dangerously inward,” says Hinkle, “this music feels like a reminder of how big the world really is. The breadth of musical styles that exist across borders and cultures is what makes life rich.”
That expansiveness runs throughout the album. Tracks draw inspiration from Nigerian polyrhythms, South African slide guitar melodies learned firsthand, and beloved Nepali folk songs absorbed during tours and collaborations abroad. At the same time, the record holds close to home — with original bluegrass instrumentals, Appalachian storytelling songs, and a powerful reading of “Many Rivers to Cross” that took on new resonance following Hurricane Helene’s impact on western North Carolina.
For Lucey, place remains central. “It’s a gift to learn Appalachian music among the laurels, creeks, and hollers where it was shaped,” she says, “and to have learned directly from first-generation mountain musicians who taught us how to stay in the pocket and honor the melodies.”
Behind the music is a trio dynamic built on trust and balance. “The same way a key needs certain cuts and angles to open a door,” Cardine explains, “this trio somehow has the right variables in place to make both art and work function. And then there’s the music, too.”
Cardine’s approach to global traditions is grounded in humility and curiosity. “That musical magic exists everywhere,” he says. “Each culture has found its own way to create it, and I love learning from that brilliance and sharing in what makes it happen.”
Individually, the members of TANASI bring internationally recognized careers into the group. Cardine is widely regarded as one of the most adventurous voices in modern slide guitar; Lucey is a foundational figure in contemporary string band music through her work with The Biscuit Burners and Uncle Earl; and Hinkle is an award-winning songwriter whose solo work has drawn international acclaim.
In 2025, TANASI was named a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts USArtists International Grant, recognizing the trio’s commitment to cross-cultural artistic exchange. Together, TANASI offers music that travels widely while remaining deeply rooted — a meeting place where traditions intersect, rhythms overlap, and connection leads the way.
​Tickets are $45 in advance or $50 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2026
​The Steeldrivers

​Opener: Tanasi
Only Nashville could give birth to a band like the SteelDrivers: a group of seasoned veterans –each distinguished in his or her own right, each valued in the town’s commercial community –who are seizing an opportunity to follow their hearts to their souls’ reward. In doing so, they are braiding their bluegrass roots with new threads of their own design, bringing together country, soul, blues, and other contemporary influences to create an unapologetic hybrid that is old as the hills but fresh as the morning dew. This is new music with the old feeling. SteelDrivers fan Vince Gill describes the band’s fusion as simply "an incredible combination."

Specializing in a unique mix of what might be called bluegrass soul, the SteelDrivers have become one of the biggest names in progressive bluegrass after making their debut in 2005.
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While there's a strong traditional streak in the SteelDrivers' sound, they bring a passion to their delivery that adds a distinctive flavor, and they're not afraid of adding a forceful grit to the music.The SteelDrivers have been nominated for five Grammys, including one in 2025 for Best Bluegrass Album, the Americana Music Association’s New Artist of the Year and was IBMA’s 2009 Emerging Artist of The Year. In 2015, “The Muscle Shoals Recordings” won the Grammy award for Best Bluegrass Recording. The quintet signed with Sun Records in 2025 and released Grammy Nominated album “Outrun” to great critical acclaim. The SteelDrivers are: Richard Bailey (banjo), Tammy Rogers (fiddle), Mike Fleming (bass), Brent Truitt (mandolin) and Matt Dame(Guitar).
Tanasi
“To me, TANASI is Appalachian music without guardrails — a sound that’s a culmination of our ever-evolving, unconventional paths, shaped by unpredictable winds, formed by unexpected hands, and forged together with joyful, emergent strength.”
TANASI is a worldgrass trio rooted in Appalachian string band tradition while moving freely and respectfully through global musical landscapes. Featuring the pioneering slide work of Billy Cardine alongside the luminous, tightly interwoven harmonies of Anya Hinkle and Mary Lucey, the trio creates music shaped not by boundaries of genre, but by decades of listening, travel, and shared experience.

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In 2026, TANASI brings this distinctive sound to major U.S. festival stages including RockyGrass, Strawberry, and Red Wing Roots festivals, with additional appearances to be announced, as they introduce audiences to their self-titled debut album, TANASI, releasing May 2026.
The album reflects a life lived in motion. Long before forming as a trio, its members were independently immersed in musical traditions spanning Appalachia, Africa, Asia, India, Hawai’i and beyond — learning directly from musicians, teaching, collaborating, and discovering the deep connective sinews between rhythm, melody, and human expression. Rather than blending styles for novelty, TANASI reveals natural meeting points across traditions, where music feels shared rather than borrowed.
“At a moment when it feels like our country is looking dangerously inward,” says Hinkle, “this music feels like a reminder of how big the world really is. The breadth of musical styles that exist across borders and cultures is what makes life rich.”
That expansiveness runs throughout the album. Tracks draw inspiration from Nigerian polyrhythms, South African slide guitar melodies learned firsthand, and beloved Nepali folk songs absorbed during tours and collaborations abroad. At the same time, the record holds close to home — with original bluegrass instrumentals, Appalachian storytelling songs, and a powerful reading of “Many Rivers to Cross” that took on new resonance following Hurricane Helene’s impact on western North Carolina.
For Lucey, place remains central. “It’s a gift to learn Appalachian music among the laurels, creeks, and hollers where it was shaped,” she says, “and to have learned directly from first-generation mountain musicians who taught us how to stay in the pocket and honor the melodies.”
Behind the music is a trio dynamic built on trust and balance. “The same way a key needs certain cuts and angles to open a door,” Cardine explains, “this trio somehow has the right variables in place to make both art and work function. And then there’s the music, too.”
Cardine’s approach to global traditions is grounded in humility and curiosity. “That musical magic exists everywhere,” he says. “Each culture has found its own way to create it, and I love learning from that brilliance and sharing in what makes it happen.”
Individually, the members of TANASI bring internationally recognized careers into the group. Cardine is widely regarded as one of the most adventurous voices in modern slide guitar; Lucey is a foundational figure in contemporary string band music through her work with The Biscuit Burners and Uncle Earl; and Hinkle is an award-winning songwriter whose solo work has drawn international acclaim.
In 2025, TANASI was named a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts USArtists International Grant, recognizing the trio’s commitment to cross-cultural artistic exchange. Together, TANASI offers music that travels widely while remaining deeply rooted — a meeting place where traditions intersect, rhythms overlap, and connection leads the way.
​Tickets are $45 in advance or $50 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2026
​Seldom Scene

Fifty-three years into a legendary career, much has changed about The Seldom Scene, starting with the venerable progressive bluegrass quintet’s various lineup iterations over time. But even as band members have stepped in and out of various roles, what’s most important is what hasn’t changed: an undeniable knack for blending both old and new music and traditions without sacrificing what makes either potent and durable. Their current iteration is a true blue lineup: guitarist mandolin player Lou Reid, bassist Ronnie Simpkins, banjoist and fiddler Ron Stewart, dobro player Fred Travers, and guitarist Clay Hess.

Since they started up together in 1971, The Seldom Scene has dexterously performed original and traditional songs while presenting fiery and soulful reinterpretations of material by Merle Haggard, James Taylor, and more. The concept of bluegrass unshackling itself from a conservative, straight-ahead mindset seems like a given now, when some of its biggest stars fill stadiums and cross over with mainstream audiences, but the continued presence of the Scene acts as a reminder that it wasn’t always so. Even if their playing style feels more at home in intimate clubs, where the audience can feel their exuberance radiating from the stage, the Scene’s elastic relationship to genre established an important precedent that encouraged their contemporaries and allowed bluegrass bands to expand their repertoire in ways that laid the groundwork for today’s bluegrass boom.
Long Live The Seldom Scene.
​Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Saturday, AUGUST 1, 2025
​Traveling Players Ensemble
Presents "King Lear"

King Lear, Shakespeare's towering tragedy of family intrigue, devotion, and unspeakable treachery.  When old King Lear banishes his daughter Cordelia for disloyalty, he soon finds that loyalty lies in actions, not in words.  Now, Lear must face betrayal by his own family, catapulting him into a storm of duplicitous daughters, vicious lords, honorable outlaws, cunning bastards, noble madmen, and a wise fool.​
Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Friday, AUGUST 7, 2025
​Victor Wooten & The Wooten Brothers

The Wooten brothers’ first public performance occurred in Hawaii in 1966 and established their identity as prodigies. Regi, the eldest son of Elijah "Pete" and Dorothy, was born in 1956. The first three sons arrived just a year apart—Roy in ’57, Rudy in ’58. Joseph was born in ’61, and three years later, in '64, Victor came. Victor learned to talk and play music at the same time.

Fast forward six years. REGI, still the leader of the family band, is 13 years old and Victor, the youngest, is 5, when the Wooten Brothers began opening a series of shows for R & B legends, “War”, and two years later for Curtis Mayfield, and many other national acts.Fast forward to the present, 2024. The Wootens have racked up 10 Grammy wins, and  26, yes, 26 Grammy nominations. And the youngest of the family, Victor, the brother who learned from all his older brothers, has been named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the ten greatest bass players of all time.
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Acclaim has come to each Wooten brother. REGI is a virtuoso guitarist, also renowned for his musical teaching skills. At the tender age of ten, Regi began teaching bass to his two year old brother Victor, while also teaching keyboard skills to his five year old brother, Joseph. Now, Regi teaches many students who travel from all over the world in various genres of music to learn from him. Regi is affectionately called "The Teacha", and he, similar to the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger, is a teacher to a global family.  

ROY also known as “Future Man”  has invented an instrument called the Drumitar that  is re-discovering the drumset, while helping to re-invent bluegrass and deconstruct jazz. Another instrument Roy invented, the RoyEl, is a piano shaped instrument and an homage to early pre-thirteenth century African-based music and mathematics, that derives rhythms and pitches from the golden ratio. With the insights gained from these new Instruments, Roy also serves as the creator and composer of the Evolution d’ Amour ballet and the Black Mozart Symphony, which introduces the legendary 18th century Black classical artist, Joseph Boulogne de Saint Georges, to the 20th and 21st century.

The late RUDY WOOTEN, who passed away in 2010, was inspired by the virtuosity and unique articulation of the legendary trumpet master Clifford Brown. He also mastered the playing styles of saxophone legends, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, and the blind triple saxophone playing master, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, so that his own double saxophone horn parts and solo’s became legendary!

JOSEPH came to Nashville as a singer but quickly became known as "The Hands of Soul" for his keyboard playing skills and songwriting genius. Joseph introduced his playing and songwriting mastery to a wider audience by re-arranging the Steve Miller classic "Fly like An Eagle" to include new spoken word lyrics. Since 1993, Joseph has travelled the world with Rock-in-Roll Hall of Famer Steve Miller in his Steve Miller Band, which has now sold over 60 million records—with a bulk of the sales  coming after Joseph  became a member of the band. And the extraordinary music making doesn’t just happen when the Wooten Brothers play all together or venture out singly-Victor and Roy, working together with Banjo master Bela Fleck, pianist and harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy, and saxophonist Jeff Coffin —well they earned a whole lot of those Wooten Grammy’s and Grammy nominations.

The Brothers' music bends and defines genres; amplifies centuries, and spans continents. The Wooten Brothers began in R+B. They evolved as teens into Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Classical and Country. Then, they emerged in 1985 on Arista records with an album called, "The Wootens", that combined Electronic, Funk, Soul, Disco, and Boogie—and offered only a sliver of the Wooten whole. The Wooten whole is all of that… and classical, and jazz, and country, and Rock-and-Roll. The Wooten whole is Prince before Prince. Maybe Clive Davis and the Arista team, who were focused on launching the extraordinary Whitney Houston, were not ready for that in 1985.

So many albums after that Arista album, as the Wootens go their separate ways, they play in giant arenas and in intimate clubs, crisscrossing the globe. They always come back to play together, sometimes close to home, sometimes a thousand miles away from their Middle-Tennessee homes.

Some of the best of times are in a camp Victor has established in a place called “Wooten Woods”, where people from around the world come to be inspired by Nature to learn to play with profound sound and silence to grow in new understanding and tones that are sweet and wise. Some of the other best times are in the jazz club named for the one brother who has passed on, Rudy.     Rudy’s Jazz Room is a live jazz club in Nashville with a growing jazz scene.The Wootens also play jazz and everything else in it, entertaining and inspiring  a growing Nashville music scene and city. The Wooten Brothers have even been known to play heavy metal in their unique Wootinish—way.

What is “The Wootinish-way”? It’s honing your craft, taking the diamond and cutting it just right, and polishing it bright. It’s not just the in-born genius. It’s not just the wisdom and insight that comes from inspired and gentle living close to nature, close to art, close to each other. It is a disciplined commitment to the craft of making sound in community and sharing sound with community—born of knowing sound and the precious space of silence, — a true, good, and saving thing.

And so they create new instruments, they revive compositions of dead composers, they leave the families they love, to bring the world they love the sounds they love. And they keep creating, performing, and recording  new music.

As a family band, they are second to none. But they are comparable to other notable family bands: The Beach Boys, the Allman Brothers, The Neville Brothers, and the Jackson Five.  Sonically inventive, soulful, musically driven, blood kin, that fill the dance floor, tickle the brain, and rock your world-- they are comparable to the best of the best family bands. The Wooten Brothers are the family band you need to know that you don’t know, or the family band you know, and want the world to know. Connecting  musically deep past to musical future, the Wooten Brothers explode genres and build bridges across genres.  Bar by bar, in live performances and on recordings, they provide an exhilarating ‘connects-you-to-the-center-of-the-universe’ sound.

The final Wooten paradox? They make universal music, but they are not universally known. Time to change that.  They are recording new music!! They have discovered deep vault tracks that include their late brother Rudy!
Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026
​Robert Earl Keen

No two creative lives unfold the same way, and for Robert Earl Keen, the story was never going to end with a quiet retreat. After decades on the road, with 21 albums, countless shows, songs sung by legends like George Strait and The Highwaymen, and honors ranging from the BMI Troubadour Award to the Texas A&M Distinguished Alumni Award, he might have had every reason to slow down. But Keen has always seen the open road as a beginning, never an end.

Rather than closing the book, Keen has turned the page to something vivid, unpredictable, and wide open. A new chapter not so much about winding down as it is about doubling down. And if the last year is any indication, he is just getting started. Keen's calendar is fuller than ever, and the stages are getting bigger. This year alone, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut, joined Tyler Childers for a sold-out performance at the Hollywood Bowl, and helped his longtime friends Turnpike Troubadours bring the house down at Red Rocks Amphitheater. He continues to headline iconic venues across the country, host his Americana Podcast: The 51st State, write a forthcoming book, and currently working on a new studio album.
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This creative bloom is not a resurgence, but a renaissance. Keen moves through it with the clarity and confidence of someone who knows exactly what he wants to express, and precisely how to shape it. Long admired for his painterly approach to songwriting, Keen writes with a visual sensitivity that brings scenes and emotions into sharp focus. His songs unfold like carefully rendered portraits or landscapes, each line adding color, texture, and depth. He captures fleeting details—a gesture, a glance, a shift in light—and transforms them into something enduring. His ability to balance specificity with subtlety gives the listener a sense of place and presence. Keen’s songwriting creates a fine line between complex story-telling and audience appeal. Beneath it all is not just momentum, but a quieter, hard-earned joy, a rhythm that comes from moving forward with purpose and the steady confidence of someone who has found his true pace.

But even as he looks ahead, Robert Keen keeps his roots close. His Annual Homecoming Weekend—an ever-growing celebration of friends, family, fans, and music—culminates in the free Fan Appreciation Day concert at John T. Floore’s Country Store, a beloved Texas institution. The event reflects Keen’s signature combination of authenticity and altruism, and his enduring connection to the people who have walked alongside him throughout his journey. This year, he also led Applause for the Cause, a major benefit concert raising over three million
dollars for flood relief in the Texas Hill Country. It was a testament not just to his influence, but to his commitment to the community that has nurtured him for over two decades.

Onstage, Keen and his band are sharper, and more alive than ever, playing not to prove anything, but to celebrate everything. And every night, as the lights go up and the chorus swells, one truth becomes unmistakably clear: the road goes on forever, the party never ends, and Robert Earl Keen is still at the center of it all, guitar in hand, moving forward with grace, grit, and boundless imagination.
​Tickets are $70 in advance or $80 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Bonus show

Not Included in Season Pass

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2026
​Robert Earl Keen

No two creative lives unfold the same way, and for Robert Earl Keen, the story was never going to end with a quiet retreat. After decades on the road, with 21 albums, countless shows, songs sung by legends like George Strait and The Highwaymen, and honors ranging from the BMI Troubadour Award to the Texas A&M Distinguished Alumni Award, he might have had every reason to slow down. But Keen has always seen the open road as a beginning, never an end.

Rather than closing the book, Keen has turned the page to something vivid, unpredictable, and wide open. A new chapter not so much about winding down as it is about doubling down. And if the last year is any indication, he is just getting started. Keen's calendar is fuller than ever, and the stages are getting bigger. This year alone, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut, joined Tyler Childers for a sold-out performance at the Hollywood Bowl, and helped his longtime friends Turnpike Troubadours bring the house down at Red Rocks Amphitheater. He continues to headline iconic venues across the country, host his Americana Podcast: The 51st State, write a forthcoming book, and currently working on a new studio album.
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This creative bloom is not a resurgence, but a renaissance. Keen moves through it with the clarity and confidence of someone who knows exactly what he wants to express, and precisely how to shape it. Long admired for his painterly approach to songwriting, Keen writes with a visual sensitivity that brings scenes and emotions into sharp focus. His songs unfold like carefully rendered portraits or landscapes, each line adding color, texture, and depth. He captures fleeting details—a gesture, a glance, a shift in light—and transforms them into something enduring. His ability to balance specificity with subtlety gives the listener a sense of place and presence. Keen’s songwriting creates a fine line between complex story-telling and audience appeal. Beneath it all is not just momentum, but a quieter, hard-earned joy, a rhythm that comes from moving forward with purpose and the steady confidence of someone who has found his true pace.

But even as he looks ahead, Robert Keen keeps his roots close. His Annual Homecoming Weekend—an ever-growing celebration of friends, family, fans, and music—culminates in the free Fan Appreciation Day concert at John T. Floore’s Country Store, a beloved Texas institution. The event reflects Keen’s signature combination of authenticity and altruism, and his enduring connection to the people who have walked alongside him throughout his journey. This year, he also led Applause for the Cause, a major benefit concert raising over three million
dollars for flood relief in the Texas Hill Country. It was a testament not just to his influence, but to his commitment to the community that has nurtured him for over two decades.

Onstage, Keen and his band are sharper, and more alive than ever, playing not to prove anything, but to celebrate everything. And every night, as the lights go up and the chorus swells, one truth becomes unmistakably clear: the road goes on forever, the party never ends, and Robert Earl Keen is still at the center of it all, guitar in hand, moving forward with grace, grit, and boundless imagination.
​Tickets are $70 in advance or $80 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Saturday, August 29, 2026
SJ McDonald | The Wilson Springs Hotel

SJ McDonald
SJ McDonald is a rising country artist from the rolling hills of Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, where she grew up working on her family farm and shaping a sound that blends grit, heart, and 90s-country nostalgia with modern storytelling. A first-place winner in American Songwriter’s Traditional Country category and the NASCAR Nashville Superspeedway Headlining Artist, she’s been featured in Billboard’s “Must Hear New Country Songs” and is steadily winning over fans nationwide.
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A true farmer’s daughter, SJ cut her teeth on stages across the Southeast from a young age, fronting bands for years and playing over 75 shows annually. Her breakout single “Honky Tonk Pie” captures the grind of chasing a dream as a woman in country music, drawing from her years singing for tips on Nashville’s Lower Broadway. Whether in an intimate acoustic set or a full-band high-energy show, she delivers performances that leave a lasting impression.
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She’s currently on tour with Emily Ann Roberts, John Anderson, and Cooper Alan, with her debut EP “Sweet At First” produced by Andy Sheridan released in December 2025, and new music released January 2026 with her punchy & fun single “You Say Vegas”. SJ McDonald is carving her own lane in contemporary country — bringing authentic stories, blue-collar charm, and a bold new energy to a new generation of listeners.
The Wilson Springs Hotel
Homegrown in the rich music scene of Virginia, The Wilson Springs Hotel is a 5-star quintet brought together within a union of genres - a high-energy folk act committed to rock & roll, bluegrass and classic country. 

The Wilson Springs Hotel’s new single “Forgiven” is a tune that describes the feeling of letting things go or ending a relationship. A universal thought of knowing you caused a change and now are dealing with the emotions and fallout of those decisions. The song speaks of trying to find happiness in the change while fighting shame for the reasons the change came in the first place.
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The second single from The Wilson Springs Hotel “Just Another Morning” blends an upbeat 90’s country sound with lyrics that tell the story of chasing down the simple parts of a lost love. The parts of relationships that eventually get taken for granted but become a focal point when reminiscing about better times. It's an expression of wishing you could have just one more slow morning with someone you once loved but has since become a stranger.

Their new record “The Day the Bloodroot Bloomed” is set to release March 20, 2026. The album is an explanation of aging and how you start to lose more people in your life from all kinds of circumstances. How aging is a beautiful thing and leading towards the inevitable at the same time. Overall the record is a description of the beauty and darkness that comes with being alive.

Forming in 2021, the band released two albums in quick succession, while growing a steadfast audience from their fiery and memorable performances out on the road. The group is named after a historic hotel in Lexington, Virginia, home of lead vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Jacob Ritter. 2024 found the band releasing a handful of singles that showcase an even more thoughtful and driving sound. Ritter's lyrics cover a plethora of subjects, from love and loss, and one’s internal growth as a result, to the relatable woes of the modern working man. Songs such as “Pulling Weeds” exploring the struggle with repetitive mental loops, much like attempting to get nutrients out of the same-old spent garden. The bouncy, danceable, and crowd-pleasing sound of “Two Step Man” takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to noting the finer aspects of a new relationship, while being driven by a toe-tapping country shuffle courtesy of drummer Stephan LaRue and bassist/backing vocalist Andrew Carper.

Through its constant growth, the band remains unwilling to conform to a single genre, as is evident in the way that this newer material celebrates the many influences instilled by the variety of sonic backgrounds each band member brings with them. Having had multiple appearances at wonderful regional festivals such as DelFest, FloydFest and Rooster Walk, it’s no secret that The Wilson Springs Hotel is best experienced in a live setting. They expertly package dynamic performances full of raw emotion, humor and storytelling, with song-by-song showcases of each player’s talents. You will undoubtedly enjoy the many lovely amenities offered to you during your stay with The Wilson Springs Hotel. ​
​Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Friday, SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 
​Jake worthington

For Big Loud Texas traditionalist Jake Worthington, country music is in his DNA. The La Porte, Texas native was raised on his grandfather's porch performances of Ray Price, Merle Haggard and George Jones, and soon picked up his own Gibson acoustic to realize the breadth of his soon-to-be-classic, wide and wild voice.

Now, Worthington breathes fresh life into dance halls, beer joints and ballrooms from Texas to Tennessee with his growing catalog – his sophomore album When I Write The Song is out now with Miranda Lambert collaboration  “Hello Shitty Day,” “I’m The One (feat. Marty Stuart),” viral “It Ain’t The Whiskey” and more. Captivating the masses with his honky-tonk stylings, the singer songwriter hits the road this year on his headlining Intent To Tonk Tour, as well as opening dates with Luke Combs, Luke Bryan, HARDY, Parker McCollum, Riley Green and Ian Munsick. “I believe in country music as much as I believe in my next breath,” Worthington declares, and “blame it on my raising, but I think there ought to be room for country in country music.”
​Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Bonus show

Not Included in Season Pass

sUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 
​JaCOB COLLIER

Beloved by audiences, musicians and critics the world over, and heralded unanimously as one of the most singular, creative and groundbreaking artists of the 21st century, the British singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, multi-hyphenate world-builder Jacob Collier has taken the music industry by storm since he first exploded onto the international scene a decade ago. With a depth, brilliance and imaginatory infinity that is beyond question, Jacob plays, writes and communicates with a human warmth, openness and drastic inclusivity that melts hearts, explodes minds, and inspires millions.

Jacob's radically joyous and genre-bridging discography has led to seven GRAMMY wins and 16 GRAMMY nominations, making him the first British artist in history to win at least one Grammy for each of his first 5 studio albums. His fearless approach to music has attracted a diverse plethora of 100+ legendary collaborators, including Coldplay, SZA, Shawn Mendes, John Mayer, Stormzy, Kirk Franklin, Tori Kelly, Oumou Sangaré, Daniel Caesar, Lizzy McAlpine, Ty Dolla Sign, Anoushka Shankar, Kimbra, Michael McDonald, Brandi Carlile, Steve Vai, Camilo, T-Pain, and his mother Suzie Collier... alongside such luminary icons as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Hans Zimmer and Joni Mitchell.​

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Jacob pushes the boundaries of what's creatively possible: writing songs in keys that don't exist, breaking track-count limits in DAWs, utilising illegal chords and colliding musical particles in an overall quantum fashion. Perhaps his most groundbreaking collaboration is that with his audience: to date, Jacob has recorded and incorporated the voices of over 100,000 audience members (including 23 languages) into Djesse Vol. 4, the final volume in his 7 years quadrilogy, which was nominated for 'Album Of The Year' at the 2025 GRAMMYs (his second AOTY nomination for this body of work). This 'Audience Choir' phenomenon, which continues to evolve through improvised moments at his concerts, challenges the status quo of what's possible between an artist and their audience, uniting greater and greater legions of human beings across every continent of the world in a language beyond words.

2025’s The Light For Days - Jacob’s latest album - finds him at his most present and immediate, and centered around a single instrument: the guitar.  During a brief trip home to London, sitting in the same music room where his career began, he chose to explore his 5-string and 10-string signature Taylor acoustic guitars more fully than he ever had before. Through alternate tunings (“DAEAD”) and techniques, he trades scale for intimacy. Recorded and produced in only four days, The Light For Days reflects a core pillar of Jacob’s artistry, offering a sonic counterpart to the moments in his live shows when everything falls away to just him and the music he loves.  

After bringing in-person magic to arenas across the globe throughout 2025, Jacob enters 2026 with an ever effervescent curiosity, bounding towards his next adventure, whilst continuing to share his creative and philosophical ideas, linking up with the BBC as their Ambassador for singing, and TED as their guest music curator for this year’s conference (among other engagements!). Whatever next? Only time will tell...
The band has released ten eclectic albums. Leylines (named after the earth energies that connect sacred sites) was produced by Joe Henry and features special guests Ani DiFranco and Trevor Hall. Live from New Orleans at Preservation Hall is a homecoming for the sisters, who lived in New Orleans for seven years and cut their teeth playing on the street in the French Quarter. The album is a pilgrimage to the homeplace of jazz and features eminent local musicians Aurora Nealand and Branden Lewis from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Folk and Anchor is a curated collection of cover songs by everyone from Bob Dylan to James Blake, Erykah Badu to Beyoncé. Their highly improvised and hypnotic album, The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know, was recorded a single day and features occasional bandmate Arouna Diarra from Burkina Faso on ngoni who amplifies the African roots of American folk traditions.

Rising Appalachia’s forthcoming album, Trade Your Troubles, is a soft light glowing from a quieter, more introspective time. It features songs that celebrate rest, restoring your spirit after burnout, and replenishing yourself in the wilds and in tradition. The generous 16-song record is bookended by a traditional Irish traveller song and an Appalachian fiddle tune, both nods to their ancestral lineages. In between, there are songs about motherhood, moonlight, heartbreak and birdsong. “The album tilts towards our inner experiences,” Chloe reflects. “I wanted to write about love and how it expanded and broke open in new ways after I became a mother.” Due out in October 2026, Trade Your Troubles features special guests Aoife O’Donovan, Ayla Nereo, Bonnie Paine, and Brittany Haas.

Sisters Leah and Chloe have long been involved in movement building, direct action, and advocacy work. They've partnered with national organizations like the Prison Yoga Project and Honor the Earth, been invited to perform at the Hopi Reservation and Standing Rock, and have used their music and platform to make the world a better place. Rising Appalachia pioneered the “Slow Music Movement,” an effort to create sustainable touring practices that included making handmade merch and welcoming local nonprofits, herbalists, farmers and poets to their shows. When Hurricane Helene hit their home in Western NC, they volunteered for months — helping with supply drops, rescue efforts, and water deliveries. Some days, they’d gather under a lean-to and plug their banjos and fiddles into a generator to share their songs and uplift everyone’s spirits.

Rising Appalachia bring their full humanity to the stage. Audiences are entranced by their honey-hued voices and moved by the deep yearnings, fierce questions, and unshakable hope that courses through their music. Their shows are communal gatherings where people remember their connection to the earth, each other, and the old songs that have carried us through every season of being human.
​Tickets are $90 in advance or $100 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

Bonus show

Not Included in Season Pass

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026 
​RISING APPALACHIA

In Appalachia, farmers still practice the ancestral tradition of companion planting. Corn grows tall as a trellis, beans climb the corn, and squash provides the ground cover. Rising Appalachia cultivates a similar symbiosis in their music, where Southern folk traditions, New Orleans swamp culture, and Atlanta’s street spirit strengthen each other. Known for their seamless harmonies, song catching and storytelling, the band has released ten albums and toured throughout North America, South America, Europe, the Celtic Isles,  Australia and beyond — performing everywhere from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Red Rocks to NPR’s Tiny Desk. All the while, the band has cultivated a devoted grassroots following traveling to communities big and small by train, horseback, bio-diesel bus and sailboat.

Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith were raised in Atlanta in a blue collar bohemian family. Their mom was a fiddler, their dad a sculptor. 
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They went to contra dances, wandered the neighborhood forests and had a childhood filled with banjos, harmony singing and other folkways. In her early twenties, while studying art and Indigenous activism in Chiapas, Mexico, Leah returned to her love of folk music. The two sisters then began a wildly creative and successful career that has included busking in New Orleans, traveling with a circus from Southern Italy to Northern Sweden, and collecting songs in Ireland, Bulgaria and Colombia. ​​Rising Appalachia also features the creative musicianship of Duncan Wickel (fiddle, cello), David Brown (upright bass, baritone guitar) and Biko Casini (drums, percussion) — each tradition keepers in their own right.

The band has released ten eclectic albums. Leylines (named after the earth energies that connect sacred sites) was produced by Joe Henry and features special guests Ani DiFranco and Trevor Hall. Live from New Orleans at Preservation Hall is a homecoming for the sisters, who lived in New Orleans for seven years and cut their teeth playing on the street in the French Quarter. The album is a pilgrimage to the homeplace of jazz and features eminent local musicians Aurora Nealand and Branden Lewis from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Folk and Anchor is a curated collection of cover songs by everyone from Bob Dylan to James Blake, Erykah Badu to Beyoncé. Their highly improvised and hypnotic album, The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know, was recorded a single day and features occasional bandmate Arouna Diarra from Burkina Faso on ngoni who amplifies the African roots of American folk traditions.

Rising Appalachia’s forthcoming album, Trade Your Troubles, is a soft light glowing from a quieter, more introspective time. It features songs that celebrate rest, restoring your spirit after burnout, and replenishing yourself in the wilds and in tradition. The generous 16-song record is bookended by a traditional Irish traveller song and an Appalachian fiddle tune, both nods to their ancestral lineages. In between, there are songs about motherhood, moonlight, heartbreak and birdsong. “The album tilts towards our inner experiences,” Chloe reflects. “I wanted to write about love and how it expanded and broke open in new ways after I became a mother.” Due out in October 2026, Trade Your Troubles features special guests Aoife O’Donovan, Ayla Nereo, Bonnie Paine, and Brittany Haas.

Sisters Leah and Chloe have long been involved in movement building, direct action, and advocacy work. They've partnered with national organizations like the Prison Yoga Project and Honor the Earth, been invited to perform at the Hopi Reservation and Standing Rock, and have used their music and platform to make the world a better place. Rising Appalachia pioneered the “Slow Music Movement,” an effort to create sustainable touring practices that included making handmade merch and welcoming local nonprofits, herbalists, farmers and poets to their shows. When Hurricane Helene hit their home in Western NC, they volunteered for months — helping with supply drops, rescue efforts, and water deliveries. Some days, they’d gather under a lean-to and plug their banjos and fiddles into a generator to share their songs and uplift everyone’s spirits.

Rising Appalachia bring their full humanity to the stage. Audiences are entranced by their honey-hued voices and moved by the deep yearnings, fierce questions, and unshakable hope that courses through their music. Their shows are communal gatherings where people remember their connection to the earth, each other, and the old songs that have carried us through every season of being human.
​Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2026 
​RISING APPALACHIA

In Appalachia, farmers still practice the ancestral tradition of companion planting. Corn grows tall as a trellis, beans climb the corn, and squash provides the ground cover. Rising Appalachia cultivates a similar symbiosis in their music, where Southern folk traditions, New Orleans swamp culture, and Atlanta’s street spirit strengthen each other. Known for their seamless harmonies, song catching and storytelling, the band has released ten albums and toured throughout North America, South America, Europe, the Celtic Isles,  Australia and beyond — performing everywhere from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Red Rocks to NPR’s Tiny Desk. All the while, the band has cultivated a devoted grassroots following traveling to communities big and small by train, horseback, bio-diesel bus and sailboat.

Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith were raised in Atlanta in a blue collar bohemian family. Their mom was a fiddler, their dad a sculptor. 
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They went to contra dances, wandered the neighborhood forests and had a childhood filled with banjos, harmony singing and other folkways. In her early twenties, while studying art and Indigenous activism in Chiapas, Mexico, Leah returned to her love of folk music. The two sisters then began a wildly creative and successful career that has included busking in New Orleans, traveling with a circus from Southern Italy to Northern Sweden, and collecting songs in Ireland, Bulgaria and Colombia. ​​Rising Appalachia also features the creative musicianship of Duncan Wickel (fiddle, cello), David Brown (upright bass, baritone guitar) and Biko Casini (drums, percussion) — each tradition keepers in their own right.

The band has released ten eclectic albums. Leylines (named after the earth energies that connect sacred sites) was produced by Joe Henry and features special guests Ani DiFranco and Trevor Hall. Live from New Orleans at Preservation Hall is a homecoming for the sisters, who lived in New Orleans for seven years and cut their teeth playing on the street in the French Quarter. The album is a pilgrimage to the homeplace of jazz and features eminent local musicians Aurora Nealand and Branden Lewis from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Folk and Anchor is a curated collection of cover songs by everyone from Bob Dylan to James Blake, Erykah Badu to Beyoncé. Their highly improvised and hypnotic album, The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know, was recorded a single day and features occasional bandmate Arouna Diarra from Burkina Faso on ngoni who amplifies the African roots of American folk traditions.

Rising Appalachia’s forthcoming album, Trade Your Troubles, is a soft light glowing from a quieter, more introspective time. It features songs that celebrate rest, restoring your spirit after burnout, and replenishing yourself in the wilds and in tradition. The generous 16-song record is bookended by a traditional Irish traveller song and an Appalachian fiddle tune, both nods to their ancestral lineages. In between, there are songs about motherhood, moonlight, heartbreak and birdsong. “The album tilts towards our inner experiences,” Chloe reflects. “I wanted to write about love and how it expanded and broke open in new ways after I became a mother.” Due out in October 2026, Trade Your Troubles features special guests Aoife O’Donovan, Ayla Nereo, Bonnie Paine, and Brittany Haas.

Sisters Leah and Chloe have long been involved in movement building, direct action, and advocacy work. They've partnered with national organizations like the Prison Yoga Project and Honor the Earth, been invited to perform at the Hopi Reservation and Standing Rock, and have used their music and platform to make the world a better place. Rising Appalachia pioneered the “Slow Music Movement,” an effort to create sustainable touring practices that included making handmade merch and welcoming local nonprofits, herbalists, farmers and poets to their shows. When Hurricane Helene hit their home in Western NC, they volunteered for months — helping with supply drops, rescue efforts, and water deliveries. Some days, they’d gather under a lean-to and plug their banjos and fiddles into a generator to share their songs and uplift everyone’s spirits.

Rising Appalachia bring their full humanity to the stage. Audiences are entranced by their honey-hued voices and moved by the deep yearnings, fierce questions, and unshakable hope that courses through their music. Their shows are communal gatherings where people remember their connection to the earth, each other, and the old songs that have carried us through every season of being human.
​Tickets are $35 in advance or $40 day of show.
Show starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.

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