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The docket for this summer’s Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman was announced this week. This series is an annual celebration of bluegrass sponsored by Springer Mountain Farms. All shows start at 7:30 p.m. (CDT), and tickets are $26.50. Make sure you come to one or all of these great shows at The Ryman, showcasing bluegrass’s [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers have created a video entry for the Dead Covers Project. Grateful Dead fans are invited to submit videos of themselves performing a Dead song during the month of February. Five fan favorites will be selected in March, and be displayed on all the Dead web properties, and in the Grateful Dead Almanac for 2012. [...]
Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers are featured in a new video for Rolling Stone. It starts with a brief group interview, followed by a rousing live performance of Martin's historical ballad, Me And Paul Revere. Great stuff.
Rounder has announced April 10 as the release date for Nobody Knows You, the next CD from Steep Canyon Rangers. This will be their first band release since Deep In The Shade in 2010, though they collaborated with Steve Martin for his 2011 album, Rare Bird Alert, which is currently up for a Grammy. The [...]
Katy Daley has a couple of major guests scheduled this week during her morning show on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. Tuesday (1/31) at 9:15 (EST), Graham Sharp from Steep Canyon Rangers will join Katy by phone to talk about the band's upcoming CD, their Grammy nomination with Steve Martin for the Rare Bird Alert CD, and [...]
Another Steep Canyon Rangers concert is set for a live cybercast this weekend, this time from the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, NC. The band's show on Friday (1/20) will be offered online via live streaming by Gigstream, an outfit that specializes in making music from North Carolina venues available on the Internet. Tickets for the HD presentation [...]
Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers are scheduled to appear on tonight's (12/5) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show. It airs at 12:35 p.m. (ET/PT) on NBC. Steve says that they will be performing Northern Island from their current collaboration project, Rare Bird Alert. The tune is a modern instrumental of Martin's, played with twin banjos. [...]
Tonight's (11/19) Steep Canyon Rangers concert in Boulder, CO will be simulcast online via iClips. The Rangers are appearing in support of Elephant Revival beginning at 9:30 p.m. (MST - 11:30 eastern). Access to the live video (and 6 weeks of archival viewing) is offered for $3.99. Rangers banjo man Graham Sharp tells us that [...]
Graham Sharp, banjo player with Steep Canyon Rangers, asked us to share these words of gratitude on behalf of the band regarding their selection, along with Steve Martin, as the 2011 IBMA Entertainer of the Year. "Standing on stage at the Ryman last night accepting the award in front of my heroes and peers was [...]
Dennis Jones, our bluegrass buddy from WNCW, sent along this gallery of photos from last weekend's Mountain Song Festival in Brevard, NC. The festival is hosted each year by Steep Canyon Rangers, with proceeds going to benefit area Boys and Girls Clubs, and educational opportunities for both adults and children in south central North Carolina. [...]
