Host Band: Dry Branch Fire Squad | Host Band: Sons and Brothers Band
2018 Performer Lineup
The Ebony Hillbillies | The Little Roy and Lizzy Show | The Kathy Kallick Band | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne | The Farm Hands
David Davis and the Warrior River Boys | The Moron Brothers | The Blue Canyon Boys | Ragged Union | The Ransom Notes
Six Dollar String Band | Steel Pennies | Higher Ground Bluegrass | Bill Evans Presents: The Banjo in America
Silver Cliff Lights | Heidi Clare | Gary Bowman
Todd Belveal, Emcee
2018 Performer Lineup
The Ebony Hillbillies | The Little Roy and Lizzy Show | The Kathy Kallick Band | Alan Bibey & Grasstowne | The Farm Hands
David Davis and the Warrior River Boys | The Moron Brothers | The Blue Canyon Boys | Ragged Union | The Ransom Notes
Six Dollar String Band | Steel Pennies | Higher Ground Bluegrass | Bill Evans Presents: The Banjo in America
Silver Cliff Lights | Heidi Clare | Gary Bowman
Todd Belveal, Emcee
Dry Branch Fire Squad
In thirty-plus years of music making, Rounder recording artists Dry Branch Fire Squad has become an institution in American acoustic music. Inspired by a fierce and uncompromising loyalty to the most traditional aspects of bluegrass, old time and southern gospel music, Dry Branch Fire Squad is fueled by the musical vision and cultural commentary of Ron Thomason. Unlike most bluegrass groups, Dry Branch Fire Squad sells neither itself, its members, nor even particular bluegrass songs. What it markets is the emotions that stimulated the creation of bluegrass and mountain music as well as a taste of the culture in which this music evolved. Two long-time members of DBFS, Brian Aldridge and Dan Russell, great friends and wonderful performers, retired at the end of 2015 after many years of yeoman service to the band and audiences. And so it is our honor to bring back into the band a former member, Adam McIntosh and someone new to DBFS, Jeff Byrd. We are happy to be presenting them in 2016; they have that familiar old-time spirit and gusto. And they're not yet eligible for Social Security.
