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The Steep Canyon Rangers with The New Spring Valley Boys at The Blue Ridge Music Center
The Blue Ridge Music Center's Evening Concert Series held in the Center's beautiful outdoor amphitheater nestled at the foot of Fisher Peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Saturday, October 11th's concert - from 4-6 PM - features Asheville, NC based Grammy winning Blue Ridge Mountain Bluegrass Band The Steep Canyon Rangers with opening act The New Spring Valley Boys, a New Old Time Band from Galax, Va.
The Steep Canyon Rangers are an American bluegrass band from Brevard, North Carolina.
In 2013 their album Nobody Knows You won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. The previous year, their 2012 collaboration with Steve Martin, Rare Bird Alert, was nominated for the same award.
The International Bluegrass Music Association awarded Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers Entertainer of the Year in 2011.
In 2008, the band received a nomination from International Bluegrass Music Association for Album and Gospel Performance of the Year.
The band were featured performers on the June 27, 2009 broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, with the addition of Steve Martin on the banjo.
It was announced on June 13, 2011 that the Steep Canyon Rangers signed with Rounder Records, with SCR's lead singer Woody Platt saying the Rangers "are honored to join Rounder Records and be a part of such a rich musical history."
http://www.steepcanyon.com
The New Spring Valley Boys, from Grayson County VA play a wide variety of traditional dance tunes. The band brings together the driving, bursting sounds of the Galax VA fiddle styles and the Round Peak NC Styles of Clawhammer Banjo.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-New-Spring-Valley-Boys/346705298693598
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LocationBlue Ridge Music Center (View)
700 Foothills Road
Galax , VA 24333
United States
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