The members of Sideline have created a video - while practicing appropriate social distancing - from the respective homes in North Carolina to speak to their fans about how the COVID-19 disease is affecting the band, and the bluegrass industry. Plus some tips we all need to follow to help slow down the spread of [...]
Winter in Florida is always a time for bluegrass concerts. The past weekend was no exception. We were able to take in two of them in very different settings. The first was at the Leesburg Arts Center on Saturday evening. It is a small, intimate venue. Max and Ruth Bloomquist play there on their annual [...]
What started out as, well, a sideline, has now become a full-time gig for the veteran musicians who took leave of their day jobs and opted instead to share a new pursuit. The decision paid off, and Sideline itself soon garnered a vibrant resume, a series of four well received albums and Song of the [...]
Cumberland Music Collective in Nashville, aka CMC Artists, has announced the signing of North Carolina's Sideline to the agency for exclusive representation. The six-piece bluegrass band has been touring the United States and Canada extensively since forming in 2013 as a side project, hence the name. But original members Steve Dilling, Skip Cherryholmes, and Jason [...]
Mountain Home Music Company has produced a new music video from Sideline, for their latest single, Return To Windy Mountain. The song comes courtesy of Delnora Lynn Reed and Carl Jackson, and tells of a young man who moves from his West Virginia home on Windy Mountain, vowing never to return to dig coal. As [...]
With the big World of Bluegrass convention set to kick off next week in Raleigh, Mountain Home Music has a special batch of new music to share with the bluegrass community. So for the next few days, we'll have a Track Premiere to mark the occasion. Today we with start with Sideline, who call Raleigh [...]
North Carolina's Sideline, among the hardest working bluegrass groups in our business, has announced the addition of fellow Tar Heel Zack Arnold to the band. He will play mandolin, taking the spot recently vacated by Troy Boone who wants to come off the road for more time with his family. Zack is not only a [...]
Album title aside, the highly acclaimed North Carolina combo dubbed Sideline take an unassuming stance with their latest effort, a set of songs that offers an ideal example of bluegrass at its best. It says something that this six piece ensemble — consisting of Steve Dilling (banjo), Jason Moore bass), Skip Cherryholmes (guitar), Troy Boone (mandolin), [...]
One thing you can say about Sideline, the band of veteran grassers from central North Carolina, is that from one recording to the next, they just keep getting better and better. What started as a special project band among a group of friends, all working with different touring acts, has become a headlining act of [...]
David McLaughlin, Marshall Wilborn, and Dudley Connell with the Johnson Mountain Boys at Nacogdoches Bluegrass Festival in Texas (July 4, 1987) - photo by Rick Gardner Lil John's Mountain Music Festival and their host band, Sideline, have come up with something special for this year's event later this month. On the festival's opening night, Thursday [...]
The members of Sideline have created a video - while practicing appropriate social distancing - from the respective homes in North Carolina to speak to their fans about how the COVID-19 disease is affecting the band, and the bluegrass industry. Plus some tips we all need to follow to help slow down the spread of [...] 
Winter in Florida is always a time for bluegrass concerts. The past weekend was no exception. We were able to take in two of them in very different settings. The first was at the Leesburg Arts Center on Saturday evening. It is a small, intimate venue. Max and Ruth Bloomquist play there on their annual [...] 
What started out as, well, a sideline, has now become a full-time gig for the veteran musicians who took leave of their day jobs and opted instead to share a new pursuit. The decision paid off, and Sideline itself soon garnered a vibrant resume, a series of four well received albums and Song of the [...] 
Cumberland Music Collective in Nashville, aka CMC Artists, has announced the signing of North Carolina's Sideline to the agency for exclusive representation. The six-piece bluegrass band has been touring the United States and Canada extensively since forming in 2013 as a side project, hence the name. But original members Steve Dilling, Skip Cherryholmes, and Jason [...] 
Mountain Home Music Company has produced a new music video from Sideline, for their latest single, Return To Windy Mountain. The song comes courtesy of Delnora Lynn Reed and Carl Jackson, and tells of a young man who moves from his West Virginia home on Windy Mountain, vowing never to return to dig coal. As [...] 
With the big World of Bluegrass convention set to kick off next week in Raleigh, Mountain Home Music has a special batch of new music to share with the bluegrass community. So for the next few days, we'll have a Track Premiere to mark the occasion. Today we with start with Sideline, who call Raleigh [...] 
North Carolina's Sideline, among the hardest working bluegrass groups in our business, has announced the addition of fellow Tar Heel Zack Arnold to the band. He will play mandolin, taking the spot recently vacated by Troy Boone who wants to come off the road for more time with his family. Zack is not only a [...] 
Album title aside, the highly acclaimed North Carolina combo dubbed Sideline take an unassuming stance with their latest effort, a set of songs that offers an ideal example of bluegrass at its best. It says something that this six piece ensemble — consisting of Steve Dilling (banjo), Jason Moore bass), Skip Cherryholmes (guitar), Troy Boone (mandolin), [...] 
One thing you can say about Sideline, the band of veteran grassers from central North Carolina, is that from one recording to the next, they just keep getting better and better. What started as a special project band among a group of friends, all working with different touring acts, has become a headlining act of [...] 
David McLaughlin, Marshall Wilborn, and Dudley Connell with the Johnson Mountain Boys at Nacogdoches Bluegrass Festival in Texas (July 4, 1987) - photo by Rick Gardner Lil John's Mountain Music Festival and their host band, Sideline, have come up with something special for this year's event later this month. On the festival's opening night, Thursday [...] 