Bowling Green, Ky. – The world’s first International Newgrass Festival will take place August 21-23, 2009 at Ballance MotoX on the Historic Ballance Farms just north of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Headlining the three-day festival will be the surviving members of the band that started it all, the original New Grass Revival. Sam Bush, John Cowan and Curtis Burch will each perform with their new bands alongside many newgrass performers who have followed in their footsteps….

Tickets are now on sale for an event billed as “the biggest and longest running New Year’s Eve blowout in all the Carolina hills.”

The Mountain Music Family Circus is set once again to ring in the New Year with kindred mountain spirits here at The Grey Eagle Music Hall in Asheville, N.C. The show kicks off at 8 .m. and is hosted by Larry Keel & Natural Bridge.

Connecting traditional songs of yesterday with their own original and inventive sounds of today, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge create astonishingly powerful acoustic music rich in heritage, heart and hot licks! With a style that evokes both atomic rock energy and dynamic tonal purity, Keel and his ensemble are intent upon taking their instruments and [...]