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Blue Highway Band and Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out
Venue: Bondurant Auditorium (Preston Hall), Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, April 13, 2012
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $14.00 RU Students, Faculty & Staff: $7.00

Description:
Two acclaimed bluegrass bands will perform on the Radford University campus on April 13 as part of the Appalachian Events Program.

Grammy-nominated Blue Highway, now in its 17th year, has done what many bands have not: maintain its original members. The Virginia-based group features Jason Burleson (banjo, guitar, mandolin), Rob Ickes (dobro), Shawn Lane (mandolin, fiddle, vocals), Tim Stafford (guitar, vocals) and Wayne Taylor (bass, vocals).

The band's latest recording is “Sounds of Home.” David Morris, a reviewer for Bluegrass Today, writes, "Anyone who is new to bluegrass—listener, artist, writer, producer—and many who have been doing it for years should be required to listen to ‘Sounds of Home.’ From the opening notes of Jason Burleson's banjo kickoff on ‘I Ain't Gonna Lay My Hammer Down’ to Shawn Lane's mandolin fadeout on ‘Drinking From a Deeper Well,’ this project is a graduate school program in blues music."

Blue Highway has recorded 10 albums, garnering Grammy nominations and winning the prestigious Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association and the International Bluegrass Music Association's Album of the Year Award.

For more information, visit: http://bluehighwayband.com/

A second band, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out, will celebrate its 20th year this summer. Making its debut last fall, the Georgia-based group's latest recording, "Prime Tyme," reached No. 1 on the bluegrass charts in February. Founding member guitarist Russell Moore has been named Male Vocalist of the Year more than 10 times, and the band has won more than 50 industry awards.

Its members are Steve Dilling (banjo), Justen Haynes (fiddle), Wayne Benson (mandolin), Edgar Loudermilk (bass), Moore and sound technician Donnie Carver. Bluegrass musician and songwriter Chris Stuart writes that the group plays its own brand of bluegrass and is “perhaps the most complete band of the two past decades."

For more information, visit: http://iiirdtymeout.com/

The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the university’s Bondurant Auditorium, Preston Hall. All seats are general admission.

Tickets for Radford faculty, staff and students are $7 and go on sale March 23 at 9 a.m. Tickets for the general public are $14 and go on sale March 30. Tickets can be purchased at the Hurlburt Student Center Information Desk or by phone at: 540-831-5420.

For more information, visit: http://www.radford.edu/content/radfordcore/home/news/releases/2012/March/bluegrass-concert.html