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Nashville Bluegrass Band  

Nashville Bluegrass Band: Americana Master Series, The Best Of The Sugar Hill Years

Release Date: July 10, 2007

Considering how many fiddle and banjo groups have formed in Music City, it’s a wonder some ordinary hackers didn’t make off with the name Nashville Bluegrass Band. Instead, providence reserved that simple, profound moniker for one of the few bands that could live up to it. Beholden neither to first generation conservatism nor newgrass eclecticism, the Nashville Bluegrass Band has truly forged its own sound, one rooted in the blues with an acute awareness of gospel and folk traditions. Their music has an ease to it that contrasts with the edgy fire-balling of some contemporary bluegrass bands. Instead, when Alan O’Bryant and Pat Enright match their voices in close harmony and when mandolinist Mike Compton and fiddler Stuart Duncan offer their refined compliments to the songs, a certain mood is created, one discovered early on and refined over two decades of history. Click here to read more.

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MUSIC: Nashville Bluegrass Band, King Wilkie to perform in January in Hamlin
By DEREK HALSEY
The Herald-Dispatch       
January 2007

HAMLIN, W.Va. -- Three musicians who helped to bring the music of the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou" to life will be playing in Hamlin, W.Va., as a part of the award-winning Nashville Bluegrass Band.

The concert, also featuring King Wilkie, will take place at the Lincoln County High School auditorium. The show will be the third installment in the Lincoln County Friends of the Arts concert series.  Click here for more.

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Nashville Bluegrass Band to play in honor of Chinese president, Hu Jintao
April 10, 2006 

Nashville, TN-- Sugar Hill Records’ Grammy award winning Nashville Bluegrass Band has been invited to play a luncheon at The White House on April 20 in honor of a visit by the Chinese president, Hu Jintao. The band was chosen because it was the first bluegrass band ever to play in Communist China in 1986, a time that very few foreign nationals, Americans in particular, were allowed into the country. The band is very pleased, says founding member Alan O’Bryant. “It is a wonderful honor to be asked to perform at the White House for such important guests. This is important work… for a banjo player!”
 
The band first visited China in 1986 as guests of the Sheraton Hotel as part of their American Days festivities (along with the Harvard Glee Club!) for the Fourth of July. They enjoyed a very warm reception at the time, especially from customs officials who requested a performance in the airport and were accommodated with some of NBB’s signature a capella gospel singing. As O’Bryant remembers, “Big grins came across faces at the tables, the officer gave the sign and the red stamps started flying,  We literally had to sing our way into the country!”
 
Nashville Bluegrass Band is comprised of some of Nashville's most outstanding musicians and performers. The group has twice been awarded the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy award and has received a variety of other distinctions. NBB is known for its artful interpretation of contemporary and traditional materials, their amazing talents as individual musicians, and the unique sound that they have created together. Their most recent release, Twenty Year Blues, a celebration of the band’s twentieth anniversary, was released on Sugar Hill in 2004. For more information on the band, review copies of their albums, or photos please contact Sugar Hill Records Publicity (mollyn@sugarhillrecords.com, 615-297-6890).

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