Bristol Rhythm Performers

  • 18 South

    18 South was born in the dining room of a house on the quiet Nashville Street, 18th Avenue South. The band is the coming together of six musicians who...View More

  • Annie & the Beekeepers

    Annie and the Beekeepers is a folk-country inspired trio that met at the Berklee College of Music in 2006. The members came from across the country, e...View More

  • Annie & the Beekeepers

    Annie and the Beekeepers is a folk-country inspired trio that met at the Berklee College of Music in 2006. The members came from across the country, e...View More

  • Big Country Bluegrass

    Big Country Bluegrass, formed in 1987, plays music reminiscent of the sounds and style that evoke memories of Bill Monroe, Ted Lundy, Larry Richardson...View More

  • Big Daddy Love

    Big Daddy Love brings a natural blend of jam, grass, roots and rock to the emerging North Carolina music scene. With fiery vocals, sweet-sugary harmo...View More

  • Boss Hawg

    Boss Hawg's home pen is the mountain town of Boone N.C. The Hawg formed in 2003 at a party on the ridge of the Blue Ridge Mtns. The band quickly disco...View More

  • Boulder Acoustic Society

    Old school but never old, Boulder Acoustic Society is the new wave of American roots music. It's what happens when four songwriters get together to ma...View More

  • Brand New Strings

    Some of East Tennessee's favorite bluegrass musicians came together to form this new band just over a year ago. Brand New Strings just finished recor...View More

  • Brinley Addington

    Born and raised in Kingsport, Tennessee, Brinley Addington is an artist whose love for country music began as a three year old after a family trip to ...View More

  • Cadillac Sky

    "Original", "innovative", "fearless", "ambitious", "propulsive", "a marvel of emotion and razor sharp focus"....these are the words of those that have...View More

  • Christabel & The Jons

    Christabel & the Jons is currently on tour from Louisiana to Maine and everywhere in between, promoting their album, Custom Made for You, and singing ...View More

  • Deep Dark Woods

    The timeless sound of the aptly named The Deep Dark Woods belongs to the depressing winters of the north. Pulsing with warmth, these original songs e...View More

  • Del McCoury

    Vince Gill says it simply, and maybe best: "I'd rather hear Del McCoury sing "Are You Teasing Me" than just about anything." For fifty years, Del's mu...View More

  • Doyle Lawson

    I was born on April 20, 1944 in Ford Town, a part of Sullivan County, near Kingsport, TN, to Leonard and Minnie Lawson. I have two brothers, James and...View More

  • Eliza Lynn

    When Eliza Lynn tosses her long red hair back and steps up to the microphone to sing, a world of music comes pouring out: foothills folk, backwoods ho...View More

  • Elkville String Band

    The Elkville String Band, from Wilkes County, performs old-time mountain music, playing mostly older music, but also some newer compositions from band...View More

  • Folk Soul Revival

    FOLK SOUL REVIVAL is an upbeat, rootsy foursome from the mountains of Appalachia. Based out of Southwest Virginia, these youthful musicians have been ...View More

  • Holy Ghost Tent Revival

    By Sarah Tollie Greensboro is their playground, and the playground, their stage. North Carolina natives Stephen Murray, Matt Martin, Hank Widmer, Pat...View More

  • Hoots & Hellmouth

    Philadelphia-based Hoots & Hellmouth (MAD Dragon Records) creates new music for old souls. Their second full-length effort, "The Holy Open Secret" (st...View More

  • Ian Gilliam & the Fire Kings

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  • James Hand

    By Sarah Tollie His 1996 album, Shadows Where the Magic Was, might have been James Hand's formal introduction to the country music world, but it wa...View More

  • Johnson's Crossroad

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  • Joy Kills Sorrow

    With its bold new brand of acoustic music, Joy Kills Sorrow pushes right through the envelope and out the other side. The Boston-based stringband brin...View More

  • Kelley & the Cowboys

    "Hailing from the foothills of NC, Kelley and The Cowboys harness a sound that is staunchly rooted in the classic country music of the 1950s and 1960s...View More

  • Miss Tess

    Miss Tess is a New York City based songwriter and performing musician, who tours regularly with her band, as "Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade." In addi...View More

  • Nathan Blake Lynn

    Nathan Blake Lynn brings together the deep traditions of bluegrass and country music. His songs define his childhood days running through the backwate...View More

  • Red Molly

    Red Molly consistently brings concert-goers to their feet with stunning three-part harmonies, crisp musicianship and a warm, engaging stage presence. ...View More

  • Rockin' Acoustic Circus

    Throughout the 60-plus-year history of bluegrass music, several young people started breaking musical molds at an early ageā€"Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush a...View More

  • Sarah Jarosz

    No musical community has proven more nurturing of emerging talent than has bluegrass and its acoustic tributaries. In part this is because precocious ...View More

  • Shotgun Party

    The original Shotgun Party trio met in a little Texas dive bar in 2006. They got their start performing weekly at Austin's own Continental Club. Spark...View More

  • Silver Dagger

    This group brings together young and energetic talent from one of the country's leading music programs. These alumni of East Tennessee State Universit...View More

  • Sourwood Mountain String Band

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  • The Black Lillies

    Born in the rumbling cab of a stone truck and aged in the oak of Tennessee's smoky night haunts, The Black Lillies have come to the forefront of the A...View More

  • The Boxcars

    Adam Steffey An East Tennessee native, he found a place in the Tennessee-Virginia border area's thriving bluegrass scene in short order, serving ea...View More

  • The Carolina Chocolate Drops

    The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddl...View More

  • The Corduroy Road

    Since its inception by Drew Carman and Dylan Solise in early 2006, The Corduroy Road has molded bluegrass, Americana, folk rock, and old-time country ...View More

  • The Drunk Uncles

    The mournful moan of a pedal steel guitar carries on the thick night air billowing out of Barb Hollow, off of Rocky Branch Road near Blount County's W...View More

  • The Gibson Brothers

    Of The Gibson Brothers' ninth release, Ring the Bell, both brothers talk about the "feel" of the album. "Ring the Bell makes me think of being young a...View More

  • The Hot Seats

    The Hot Seats were formed eight years ago (2002) in Richmond, VA as a good-time band between new friends, many of whom were exploring a genre unknown ...View More

  • The Infamous Stringdusters

    The Infamous Stringdusters represent the cream of the crop of young bluegrass musicians. With Andy Hall on Resonator Guitar, Travis Book on bass, Chri...View More

  • The New Familiars

    From the foothills of Appalachia a new musical combo has appeared; grown from seeds of the folk, blues, and bluegrass found abundant in the Carolinas,...View More

  • The Snyder Family Band

    The Snyder Family Band, from Lexington, NC, features 11-year old Samantha (fiddle), 14-year old Zeb (guitar), their father, Bud (upright bass), and mo...View More

  • The Straight 8s

    The Straight 8s have been delivering their combustible blend of high-octane rockabilly music for over a decade. Based in Hillsborough, NC, the band ha...View More

  • The Two Man Gentlemen Band

    The Two Man Gentlemen Band's original brand of raucous, retro vaudevillian swing is fast becoming an underground sensation. Three short years ago, The...View More

  • Trent Wagler and The Steel Wheels

    Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels perform Original Americana Roots Music. Their acoustic music ranges from old time, country folk, infused with elements...View More

  • Whiskey Bent Valley Boys

    By Sarah Tollie Intern When asked about their music, the Whiskey Bent Valley Boys' answer is really quite simple. They play a powerful mix, "pound...View More

  • Woody Pines

    How many artists, besides the late Johnny Cash, open with a prison song? Roots and blues musician Woody Pines probably found himself in an exclusive c...View More

  • Yarn

    Yarn owes as much to Gram Parsons and Earl Scruggs as to Jerry Garcia and Exile On Main Street-era Rolling Stones. Following in a fine tradition that ...View More