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  • Saturday, April 13, 2024 | Peace Center | Greenville, SC
  • Blending bluegrass with elements of rock, alternative, psychedelic and improvisational music, Yonder Mountain String Band brought their high-energy acoustic sound and light show into rock n’ roll settings with tremendous success, proving it was possible for a bluegrass band to not only exist but excel in a rock world, without drums. The band, currently comprised of Adam Aijala (guitar, vocals), Ben Kaufmann (bass, vocals), Dave Johnston (banjo, vocals), Nick Piccininni (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, vocals), and Coleman Smith (fiddle, vocals) was recently honored with an induction into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame alongside friends and legends Leftover Salmon, Hot Rize, The String Cheese Incident. They have a two-night residency at the Salvage Station in Asheville Friday and Saturday nights, and stop by Studio B on their way there for the first time in 18 years! They’re also on the lineup for the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in September.
  • When blues-and-folk musician Parr sings and plays his resonator or 12-string guitar, you can hear influences like Mance Lipscomb, Charley Patton, Spider John Koerner, Rev. Gary Davis, Dock Boggs, and others of the Depression-era music his dad raised him on. This is especially true in his playing, when, after a diagnosis of focal dystonia, Parr turned to greats like Davis, Doc Watson, and Booker White for two-finger picking inspiration. Gifted a 1965 Gibson B-45 12-string by his father, Parr has never had a formal lesson and learned by to listening records and watching musicians he admired. It’s no surprise we took a strong liking to his recordings when we discovered him in 2021. Charlie plays at Eulogy in Asheville on Thursday evening at 7. His latest album Little Sun will be released on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings the next day.
  • Based out of Asheville, Fancy and the Gentlemen brings an eclectic mix of honky tonk, blues, southern gothic, rock, and string quartet roots together. The band features Fancy Marie, Craig Kellberg (bass), Alex Travers (fiddle), Kent Spillman (percussion) and other Asheville area musicians, and their new album was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios last November. Upcoming shows include Hotel Cashiers in Cashiers on Saturday the 23rd, Burnsville on Friday the 29th, Asheville on Saturday the 30th, and an album release show on April 16th at Jack of the Wood. Fancy and the Gentlemen won Best Country/Americana Band in Mountain Express's "Best of WNC” last year!
  • Sunday, April 7, 2024 | The Orange Peel | Asheville, NC
  • Friday, March 22, 2024 | The Fillmore Charlotte | Charlotte, NC
  • Earl Scruggs Music Festival will return to Mill Spring, NC August 30 - September 1 with headliners Tanya Tucker, Old Crow Medicine Show, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Yonder Mountain String Band and The Steeldrivers! Click through for the complete lineup.
  • Sunday March 10th from 9 to 10pm, we launch our new weekly show, Eclectic Electric. An electronic variety show, where anything and everything electronic goes—from electronica to hip hop, lounge to lo-fi, techno to trip hop, new age, new wave, vaporwave and pop. Join Rachel Hilton and Spencer Jones Sundays for a tour of electronic music throughout the decades to the present.When asked what the impetus for the show was, Rachel Hilton told us "Eclectic is a perfect word to describe the music on WNCW, and one of the many reasons I love this station. As a lover of all music (especially Celtic and Electronic), I realized WNCW didn't have a program exclusively for electronic music. When I mentioned the idea for an electronic variety show to Martin Anderson, he told me that Spencer Jones had a similar idea a while back. During the Celtic Winds fall fundraiser, I got to chat with Spencer about putting our ideas together to create Eclectic Electric."
  • With three Grammy wins, seven CMA Awards, and multiple national fiddle, guitar, and mandolin champion titles, Mark O’Connor’s music and career truly defies categories: bluegrass, jazz, classical, and those sweet styles that segue between them all. Going back several decades, he’s been a member of legendary ensembles the David Grisman Quintet, The Dregs, and Strength In Numbers with Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, and Edgar Meyer. Then there are his various duets with the likes of Ricky Skaggs, Yo-Yo Ma, and now his wife Maggie. The two will perform a live session in Studio B, with conversation about all of these wonderful collaborations, the famous O’Connor Method that countless violin students have learned from, and more. They then head to Asheville for a Friday evening concert at the Wortham Center For the Performing Arts.