Mountain Heart

Friday November 30

The Grascals - 7:00-7:30 & 9:30-10:00

Mike Snider - 7:30-8:00 & 1000-10:30

Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys - 8:30-9:00 & 11:00-11:30

Saturday December 1

Mountain Heart - 7:00-7:30 & 11:00-11:30

Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press - 7:30-8:00 & 10:00-10:30

The Grand Ole Opry is broadcast live on WSM 650 AM radio, online at www.WSMonline.com and on XM Satellite Radio (XM 11). All listed times are central time.

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The SteelDrivers

Highly regarded individually as songsmiths and sessions players, The SteelDrivers will release their debut January 15 on Rounder Records. Performing all original rhythm ‘n bluegrass material, this batch of seasoned pros have an innumerable list of hits, cuts and licks to their credit. Since their inception over a year and half ago, they have been selling out Nashville’s legendary Station Inn.

With no hype, just incredible talent, these 5 musicians have already established a name for themselves in a town that barely looks twice at a bunch of folks holding acoustic instruments.

On their debut CD of all original material, The SteelDrivers’ back-country high lonesome collides with Delta soul and is one of the most refreshing sounds to emerge from Nashville in a long time. With no hype, just incredible talent, these 5 musicians have already established a name for themselves in a town that barely looks twice at a bunch of folks holding acoustic instruments. Stretching the boundaries of your typical bluegrass band, the rock/blues/soul vocals of guitarist Chris Stapleton put the high lonesome bluegrass sounds smack dab in the middle of town.

“The most exciting band to appear on the scene in a long, long time! Chris (Stapleton) puts the Ray Charles to it.”Nashville Bluegrass Band’s Roland White

Other SteelDrivers include mandolinist/guitarist/vocalist Mike Henderson, fiddler/vocalist Tammy Rogers, banjo player Richard Bailey and bassist Mike Fleming. Produced by Luke Wooten (Alison Krauss, Jim Lauderdale and Dierks Bentley), The SteelDrivers’ debut album does a great job of translating their impassioned live show onto disc.

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Alison Krauss and Robert Plant by Pamela Springsteen

Burlington, MA - Raising Sand, the widely praised and bestselling album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, produced by T Bone Burnett - has been certified gold by the RIAA. A surprise hit of the season, Raising Sand has shown little sign of slowing down since a remarkable #2 debut on the Billboard 200 four weeks ago, and remains within the top 25 on the chart. Raising Sand is the highest charting and fastest selling album in the history of Rounder Records.

Plant, Krauss, and T Bone Burnett recently completed work on a music video for first single “Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On).” The surreal clip conceived and directed by Rocky Schenck will have a world premier on CMT November 29, and is confirmed for a premiere on VH1 December 3rd.

Shot in Nashville, the video adds a raucous element to the Everly Brothers song, with scenes bouncing between shimmering mylar glitz and a performance stage reminiscent of a vintage Technicolor movie. The video will enter regular rotation on both networks.

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Uncle Earl has released the video for “Streak o’ Lean, Streak o’ Fat” from their latest album “Waterloo, Tennessee.”

The concept for the video was a collaborative effort between director Tom Krueger , producer Brad Paul, and band member Kristin Andreassen. Other band members are KC Groves on bass, Rayna Gellert on fiddle and Abigail Washburn on banjo and vocal.

Uncle Earl producer, Led Zeppelin’s legendary multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, plays piano.

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The North Carolina-based Kruger Brothers are getting into the swing of the holiday season with three Christmas concerts in Maine and North Carolina added to their tour schedule.Before taking to the stage, the three-piece group — banjo player Jens Kruger, guitarist and lead vocalist Uwe Kruger and bassist Joel Landsberg — will do a live studio broadcast at WERU, 89.9 FM, in Blue Hill, Maine, from 8 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6

The first holiday show takes place at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at the St. Albans Town Hall in central Maine. The following day, the brothers will perform at 7:30 p.m. at The Grand, a theater in Ellsworth Maine.

The brothers are closer to home Dec. 11 when they perform another holiday concert at the Hayes Performing Arts Center in Blowing Rock, N.C.

The remainder of the band’s 2007 schedule includes:

Dec. 14: Dickinson, N. Dakota, at the Dorothy Stickley Auditorium for a 7 p.m. concert

Dec. 15: Mott, N. Dakota, Playhouse Theatre, 7 p.m. concert

Dec. 21: Asheville, N.C., for an evening performance at the Jack of the Wood Pub

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