Upcoming Bluegrass Related Events

8:30 With Steve Smith, Stu Ervin, Jackie Damsky and Jeff Horton (sitting in for Tim Fiehler)

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000149 EndHTML:0000002563 StartFragment:0000000199 EndFragment:0000002529 StartSelection:0000000199 EndSelection:0000002529 Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present Nashville-based, Telluride Bluegrass Festival award-winning, bluegrass and Americana quartet The Barefoot Movement at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery on Saturday, June 20 at 7:30 pm. Heartfelt, energetic and down home, The Barefoot Movement is "one of the most promising bands on the bluegrass scene" (CMT Edge).  Their down to earth music ranges from poignant ballads to rip-roaring barn-burners, and takes audiences back to a simpler place and time, inviting  listeners to sit back, relax, take their shoes off and stay a while.  In the five years since The Barefoot Movement took off their shoes and took to the stage, they have enjoyed almost non-stop touring, from crisscrossing the US to a trip to Burkina Faso, Africa, where they were guests of the American Embassy.  They have appeared in Country Weekly Magazine, on CMT Edge, Music City Roots and Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, and have released three CDs. The "movement" can be traced back to the teen years of singer-songwriter and fiddler Noah Wall of Oxford, NC. Just as she had begun penning her first compositions, she met mandolinist Tommy Norris during their senior year of high school.  Convinced of their musical chemistry and driven by mutual ambition, they continued to build the band from the ground up throughout their college careers.  While enrolled in East Tennessee State’s Bluegrass, Old-time and Country Music Program, Noah met fellow student and upright bassist Hasee Ciaccio.  With the addition of guitarist and singer Alex Conerly, the lineup was complete with all the trademark elements of Barefoot sound - lush harmonies, dazzling instrumental work and memorable melodies. Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery is located at 139 Main … Read More »

Georgia based festival favorites, great bluegrass and comedy hand in hand.

notloB's Summer music series at the Park Avenue Congregational Church will conclude on Saturday, August 28 when we present the Matt Flinner Trio - mandolinist Matt Flinner, guitarist Ross Martin and bassist Eric Thorin. http://www.mattflinner.com/trio The Matt Flinner Trio “Deeply Rooted New Acoustic Music” In 2006, three musical pals decided to get together to play a few gigs; since then, the Matt Flinner Trio has been exploring new pathways and setting new standards for the bluegrass trio sound all around the U.S. and Europe. Mandolinist Matt Flinner, guitarist Ross Martin and bassist Eric Thorin cover a wide variety of musical styles—all with the common ground of American roots music. Bluegrass, jazz and old-time music are all present here in their ways, along with a dose of classical chamber music composition and arrangement, as the members all draw from their wide array of musical loves, experiences and influences. These influences boil down into the trio’s own organic sound of New Acoustic music, or Modern String Band music, or Chamber Grass (music is getting harder and harder to label these days, isn’t it?). Whatever label you put on it, it is guaranteed to be fresh and original, and definitely something you’ve never quite heard before. The trio began doing “Music du Jour” tours in 2006, in which each member of the group writes a new composition the day of the show, and all three new pieces are performed on that evening’s concert. After several of these tours the trio recorded its first CD, “Music du Jour,” on Compass Records in 2009. They have now performed over 130 “du Jour” shows around the U.S., and continue to explore new frontiers and new sounds in acoustic string band music. … Read More »