Raleigh, N.C. — PineCone has confirmed that the Claire Lynch Band will open the Bluegrass Music Festival coming up on Sunday, March 21.

January’s winter storm threw quite the curve ball at the PineCone Winter Music Festival in January. While more than…

Raleigh, N.C. — From the stage of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor said of Big Medicine, “That’s how string band music is supposed to sound… absolutely effortless. They’re just a great band – I love this band.” Big Medicine, the band that was featured on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion when the show came to Durham last spring, performs a free concert at the NC Museum of History on Sunday, March 14…

Raleigh, NC., — As the winter weather and precipitation heads towards North Carolina, the PineCone Winter Festival is still currently still a go. Below is the latest update we’ve received. Stay tuned to the PineCone website for additional updates if they become available.

Performers for the two-day PineCone Winter Festival include: Kris Kristofferson, Tony Rice Unit, Bearfoot, Tift Merrit, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper…

Raleigh, N.C. — Bluegrass pickers and singers frequently jam together across the country, and Raleigh, North Carolina is no exception. A longstanding bluegrass jam group in the area found a new home in January when they met for the first time in the newly re-opened Six String Cafe and Music Hall. Many changes have happened recently for this Bluegrass Jam….

Raleigh, NC — PineCone’s first-ever CD release is happening this October, and it highlights some of the very best old-time, regional Piedmont Stringband Music. Titled “Going Down to Raleigh: Stringband Music in the North Carolina Piedmont 1976-1998,” the two-disc anthology CD is a collection of field recordings that highlight the distinctive music traditions of the Piedmont region, including fiddlers, banjo players and other instrumentalists and singers who learned their music from family and friends….