Folk & Traditional

Jatoba and The Infamous Stringdusters set to perform a 3-Night run

Shows will Start in Portland, ME, run through Burlington, VT, and finish up in Ithaca, NY Oct. 18-20.

HGMN Welcomes Mac & Juice

Wilmington, North Carolina’s Mac & Juice celebrate everything from jazz, mixed-meter, rock, roots, soul, country, bluegrass- you name it, they play it.

Mac & Juice

Wilmington, North Carolina’s Mac & Juice announce the release of their new album, Step into the Light.

Mac Nelson and Brian “Juice” Raynor met while studying classical guitar at East Carolina University in 2000. Since then, they have been writing, singing and playing music together, developing a sound that celebrates rock and jazz with doses of jam and bluegrass elements spun in. The outcome of this passionate ride is a signature sound that beams brightly with intricate guitar licks that expose their unparalleled dexterity. While crafting songs is serious business for Mac & Juice, what follows are bright, tight, beautifully rocking stories that come to life through moonlit vocals, thoughtful lyrics, and their two guitars which seem to channel the stories as well.

Mac & Juice's self-released album, Step into the Light, is not just a collection of songs but rather a personal stamp on their original music that has developed organically over the years. Because of the many genres of music coming to life on this album, it is challenging to put them into any one category. Among the eleven songs, “Willie Nelson Song” and “One Hundred Dollars” plug songwriting influences such as Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, while “Johnny Gene” and “I’m Going Home” give a nod to authentic bluegrass. “Phoenix” and “She Don’t Wanna Be” are straight driving rock songs with moving hooks. “Today,” “Remembered as the Best” and “Countryside” will make you want to drive with the top down. “The Most Beautiful Thing” unveils jazz notes that are reminiscent of Stevie Wonder, but with their signature virtuoso brand. “Piece of Mind” ebbs and flows over a groove laden low end that spills into a lick-heavy guitar solo where Mac & Juice unleash their tandem jams.

Mac & Juice pick up their beloved Alvarez guitars and play over one hundred shows a year across the southeast. They have likewise been welcomed with open arms into the southern festival scene. Mac & Juice share a brain. Their camaraderie on and off stage is part of why they are such a distinctive act. To experience a Mac & Juice performance or listen to Step into the Light is to have fallen upon something special and not to be missed.

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Floydfest 2012

The festival featured eight stages of eclectic musical performances and worldly arts and crafts, all set in the gorgeous, lush mountains of southern Virginia.

Nearly every genre of music is represented at FloydFest, and all that variety is a good thing. Headliners such as Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, Ricky Scaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jackson Browne, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Michael Franti and Spearhead, The Sam Bush Band, Drive-By Truckers, Matisyahu, Leftover Salmon, SOJA, Sara Watkins, Brandi Carlile, and Dawes were some of the “must-sees”. It was a delightful, energy-infused, 5 day roller coaster ride of music that never dipped below fabulous.

New Artist Announcements For Railroad Earth’s Hangtown Halloween Ball

October 26 – 28, 2012

Music on the Mountaintop 2012

This year marked the 5th anniversary of the Music On The Mountaintop festival with two nights of Railroad Earth making it their own.

The festival started on Friday and ran through Sunday closing out with the Sam Bush Band. Unlike past years, the festival consisted of just one stage nestled between the picturesque views of the mountains in Foscoe County located near Boone NC. Surrounding the stage were vendors of all sorts. Gifts of stain glass, beautiful jewelry and clothing for all could be purchased here. Food vendors were in the area as well to cure our hunger.

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Gnarnia Festival 2012

Thousands of festival goers flocked to the first annual Gnarnia festival held at the Beech Mountain ski resort near Boone, North Carolina.

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Cornmeal says goodbye to longtime friends

Cornmeal Says Goodbye to Kris and John Paul Nowak

The Deluge

The Deluge is a whirling dervish of a band which possesses a kinetic energy in their live show that will leave audiences swooning long afterwards. Blending Americana, Soul, Jazz, Funk and Rock; the Deluge’s unique sound captures the essence of many musical styles.

Formed in 2008, this dynamic and musically diverse group features Brandon Knox on harmonica and vocals, Chris Lord on guitar, George Westberry on bass and vocals, Daniel Serriff on guitar and vocals and Jeremy Merritt on drums.

The Deluge's debut record, Cryin' on the Vine, features "Strange World'...which won best R&B song of 2010 from the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Their second release, Elephant Graveyard, features the talents of Grammy Award Winner Kofi Burbridge (Tedeschi/Trucks Band) and showcases the group's vast musical range, capturing moments of spinster story telling to raw and unfettered revelry.

The Deluge has shared the stage with many of the top artists in music over the past decade, including Sam Bush, Kofi and Otiel Burbridge, Artimus Pyle and the Carter Brothers.

Daniel Serrif - guitar, vocals
Brandon Knox - harmonica, vocals
Chris Lord - guitar, vocals
Jeremy Meritt - drums