Raleigh, N.C.– One Night…One Admission…Two dynamite bands. PineCone’s Down Home Series continues on Wednesday, March 11, with the Grammy-nominated Dan Tyminski Band and the Tony Rice Unit each scheduled to perform a set during the evening. The show begins at 8 p.m. at Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh.

About Dan Tyminski

To many, Dan Tyminski is the ace guitarist/mandolinist and soulful tenor in Alison Krauss’s band, Union Station. To others, he is the Grammy-winning singing voice behind George Clooney’s character in the hit film O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? More than the sum of these two parts, Tyminski is a revered leader of his own first-rate band, which has released two albums to date. Dan Tyminski’s latest album, Wheels (Rounder), was nominated for a Grammy^® in the Best Bluegrass Album Category this year, and it was January’s #1 album on Bluegrass Unlimited’s National Bluegrass Survey Top 15 Albums chart. The title track was #1 on the Top 30 Songs chart, and since the album’s June release on Rounder, the album has been #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart three times and has also topped the Bluegrass Music Profiles Top 10. Last year, the band’s own Barry Bales and Adam Steffey earned IBMA recognition: Bales was named Bass Player of the Year, and Steffey was named Mandolin Player of the Year. Multi-instrumentalists Ron Stewart and Justin Moses round out the Dan Tyminski Band, which was also nominated for two Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) awards: Tyminski for Male Vocalist of the Year (Traditional) and his band mate, Ron Stewart, for Fiddle Performer of the Year.

About Tony Rice

Tony Rice is considered one of the greatest innovators in acoustic flatpicked guitar of his generation. His band, Tony Rice Unit, spans the range of music from straight-ahead bluegrass to jazz-influenced new acoustic music. Over the course of his career, he has played alongside J.D. Crowe and the New South, David Grisman (during the formation of “Dawg Music”), Doyle Lawson, and many others, in addition to leading his own groups. Rice’s most recent recording for Rounder is Quartet, the second collaboration with bluegrass and newgrass legend Peter Rowan. Despite recent problems with his voice related to dysphonia, Tony Rice remains one of new acoustic music’s top instrumentalists, bringing originality and vitality to everything he plays. In 2007, he received his sixth Instrumental Performer of the Year recognition from the IBMA; he has received four other IBMA awards over the years for Instrumental Group of the Year (Tony Rice Unit – 1991, 1995; Bluegrass Album Band – 1990) and one for Instrumental Album of the Year (Bluegrass Instrumentals – 1997, with the Bluegrass Album Band).

PineCone presents this show as part of its Down Home Series at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. The show starts at 8 p.m. Call PineCone’s box office at 919-664-8302 for tickets, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.