Our next TV show tapings will take place at the Fall Festival September 24, 25, 26. Scrapomatic. The SteelDrivers. Gary Nicholson. Seth Walker. Larry Cordle with Lonesome Standard Time. A dozen other great bands. The farm. The river. The sun. The people. The camping. The chickens. The ________. (Fill in the blank; it's probably gonna happen, as long as you're imagining cool happenings).

Buy your festival tickets, and reserve your camping spot now. Don't want to camp? Day-trippers are always welcome. And there are hotels nearby . . . .

Most Recent Tapings
Annual Memorial Day Festival, May 2010
We had a great time kicking off summer on the farm with old friends and new.

RB Morris is a poet who writes emotionally intense songs full of ideas and unexpected word-play and sings them in arrangements that emphasize the rhythmic interchange between words and music. Morris has spent most of his life in Knoxville and in the mountains of East Tennessee. He has played his way through the clubs and honky tonks of the mountains, first with bands with old-time fiddlers and then later with groups that rocked. He has traveled the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe. Morris's songs reflect a range of musical styles: pop, blues, country, gospel and improvisation with spoken word. What holds them together and gives them their signature is a provocative wit and a sense of melancholy which dance in rhythmic wordplay that turns these contrary tendencies into the best of friends.

---

Webb Wilder
Friday, May 28, 2010

---

Goose Creek Symphony
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Darrell Scott with Kenny Malone
Friday, November 20, 2009

Darrell Scott's solo CDs, session work, touring gigs with Steve Earle’s Bluegrass Dukes--of which he remains a member--as well as Guy Clark and Newgrass Revival founder Sam Bush, and his own live shows have steadily drawn reviews even payola can’t buy. USA Today praised his “brilliantly clever songs." Entertainment Tonight raved about his “powerful songwriting, passionate vocals and masterful picking." Rolling Stone listed his 2003 CD Theatre of the Unheard in their list of "Critics’ Top Albums" and compared him to Clark and Springsteen “at their best.” Performing Songwriter went all the way, dubbing him “the best of the best.”

Tim O'Brien

Friday, December 18, 2009

For most artists, winning a Grammy and two IBMA awards within a single year would serve as a stimulus to tour more often, maybe get a bigger band—and, of course, get back into the studio as quickly as possible to capitalize on the honors. But Tim O'Brien's never been one to follow a typical agenda, and with the push of road weariness and the pull of family life, he’d already decided it was time to recharge. So the winner of 2006’s Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy (for Fiddler’s Green, one of two albums he released simultaneously in the fall of 2005) and the IBMA’s Male Vocalist and Song of the Year awards dialed back his road dates, took time to write, and wound up recording a set of original songs with nothing more than a few of his favorite instruments and his own voice on his newest album Chameleon.

Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack
Friday, January 22, 2010

Will Kimbrough's guitar playing has made him a sought-after sideman, playing for Jimmy Buffett--who recorded Will’s “Piece of Work” on his License to Chill CD--Rodney Crowell, Todd Snider, Kim Richey, Josh Rouse and many, many others both in the studio and onstage. Will’s prowess on the six-string has led to a fan-produced T-shirt that says “Will Kimbrough is an alien.” It seems to be the only way to explain his mastery.

Tommy Womack has been able to pop out thirteen albums in his twenty-two-year career, write an autobiography and a novel, produce a life and still have time to search for the “Historical Jesus.” His most recent album "There I Said It" screams just that. His frank and almost abrasive lyricism screams out anthems of questions and answers every honest musician finds them asking themselves at one point or another.

Dan Tyminski
Friday, February 19, 2010

Dynamic on stage, down to earth off stage, this thirteen-time Grammy winner has the voice, instrumental chops, and charisma to be counted among the most recognizable and popular male vocalists on today’s bluegrass and country music scenes. Since 1994, his ace instrumental skill (mainly on guitar, but also on mandolin) and burnished, soulful tenor singing have been key components of Alison Krauss and Union Station, arguably the most visible and successful bluegrass band in the modern era.

Tyminski notably stepped ever more deeply into the popular conscience as the singing voice of George Clooney in the Coen Brothers’ Odyssean farce O Brother, Where Art Thou? In addition to being a pivotal element in the plot of the film, his powerful rendition of the Stanley Brothers’ version of “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” became a surprise hit single -- firing off a popular renaissance in bluegrass in the process. The song was given the Country Music Association (CMA) award for Single of the Year, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Award for Song of the Year, and a Grammy Award for Country Collaboration with Vocals. The project was also honored with the IBMA Award for Album of the Year, as well as the Grammy Award for Album of the Year – a rare achievement for a soundtrack project.

This Arts Build Communities program is funded by the Tennessee General Assembly and is administered in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission and The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

Hotel Indigo - Nashville, TN | Dr. Pepper and Snapple Group | Dunkin Donuts