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PineCone Winter Music Festival
Saturday & Sunday, January 30-31, 2010
Saturday's performances begin at 6 p.m.
Sunday's performances begin at 2 p.m.
Meymandi Concert Hall

Order Tickets: Saturday only

Order Tickets: Sunday only

Order Two-Day pass

Bring your tickets to the Irregardless Café on Friday or Saturday night and order a bottle of house wine (red or white) for half price. Or bring your tickets to Sunday brunch and receive a complementary mimosa!

Saturday
Emcee: Celtic Musician & WRAL Anchor Bill Leslie

Bearfoot - 6 p.m.
Telluride Bluegrass Band Champion Bearfoot is often compared to artists like Nickel Creek. Bearfoot has traveled from their native Alaska to many top theaters and festivals, including Merlefest and the IBMA Festival. Switching easily between airy Northern ballads and back-alley Southern blues, their music is underscored with bluegrass passion. They bring a remarkable breadth of rich, original songs to the stage, and their arrangements are fiery and inventive, with inspiring harmonies tying them together. Kate Hamre - acoustic bass, Odessa Jorgensen - fiddle, Mike Mickelson - guitar, Jason Norris - mandolin, Angela Oudean - fiddle
Bearfoot's website


Tony Rice Unit - 7 p.m.
A maverick of the flat-picked acoustic guitar, Tony Rice redefined guitar’s role in bluegrass music. As the first instrumentalist to seize upon the innovations of guitarists like Clarence White and Doc Watson, he propelled them into new flights of rhythmic, harmonic, and textural virtuosity and raised the bar for a new generation of acoustic six-stringers.
Tony Rice Unit's website


Tift Merritt - 8:15 p.m., with special appearance by Community Music School choir  
Singing a charming blend of country, rock and Southern rhythm and blues, Tift Merritt returns to the city where she grew up to join in a night of musical celebration.
Tift Merritt's website
Community Music School website





Kris Kristofferson - 9:30 p.m.
Legendary singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson sets his stories to music with an acoustic guitar, harmonica, and his distinctive voice. With multiple awards to his name, including the 2007 Johnny Cash Visionary Award from CMT, he is well known for his own music as well as for classics such as “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “For the Good Times,” and many others.
Kris Kristofferson's website 
Photo Credit: Marina Chavez 

Sunday
Emcee: PineCone Bluegrass Show Deejay Larry Nixon

Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass - 2 p.m.
Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass get the afternoon going with their powerful, unadorned, traditional bluegrass. Another next generation band carrying on their families’ traditions, Danny and his brother Michael, the band’s bass player, are Bob Paisley’s sons. Bob grew up in Ashe County, N.C. and he formed and fronted the Southern Grass. Even at a young age, Danny and Michael were part of the band, as were TJ and Bobby Lundy, sons of Ted Lundy. Before the Southern Grass, Ted and Bob co-fronted the Southern Mountain Boys. The group received the 2009 IBMA Award for Song of the Year for their performance of "Don't Throw Mama's Flowers Away."
Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass website

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper - 3 p.m.
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper perform blistering instrumentals along with tight vocal trios and duos and fiddle-and-banjo duets that echo the first-generation stars of bluegrass. Cleveland is a seven-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Fiddle Player of the Year award, winning his most recent honor at the 2009 IBMA Awards. Other honors he and his band received at the 2009 IBMA program were: Instrumental Group of the Year and Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year ("Jerusalem Ridge," from Rounder Records - Cleveland also has a producer credit for this song from the album Leavin' Town). In addition, Flamekeeper members Jesse Brock and Marshall Winborn each took home their first individual IBMA honors for Mandolin Player of the Year and Bass Player of the Year, respectively.
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper website

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper Photo Credit: Shawn Wright


Dale Ann Bradley - 4:15 p.m.
Dale Ann Bradley, three-time winner of IBMA’s Vocalist of the Year Award, infuses traditional bluegrass music with contemporary flare. Known for her distinctive, gentle vocal phrasing, with a voice that has been referred to as "shimmering," Bradley fills the stage with humor, grace, and integrity.She has been hailed by Alison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs as one of the greatest vocalists in country and bluegrass music.
Dale Ann Bradley's website


Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - 5:30 p.m.
Ricky Skaggs is a 13-time Grammy Award winner whose name has become synonymous with both bluegrass and country music. With nearly 40 years in the music-making business, his songs transcend time and transport his audiences through the best of what bluegrass has to offer.
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder website

And thanks to our Festival sponsors:

Boom! Magazine is central North Carolina’s premiere publication that inspires, motivates, educates, and delights active adult readers with a vigorous new image of “Phase II” living.
www.boomnc.com

The award-winning Irregardless Café has been nourishing our community with delicious meals, attentive service and music from talented entertainers from around the Triangle since 1975. The Café also offers live entertainment nightly. Talented, local musicians perform the fiddle, ballads, folk, blues, jazz/swing and folk, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday nights are traditional music nights at the Café! www.irregardless.com

One of Jimmy John's newest Raleigh locations is at the new Capital City Plaza, which opened late in 2009. The Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwich Shop Pavilion is in the northeast corner of the plaza. www.jimmyjohns.com

Whole Foods Market in Raleigh sells the highest quality natural and organic foods, and they are a strong community leader through their donations and involvement in community events. What began as one small store in 1980 in Austin, Texas, has today grown to more than 270 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. www.wholefoodsmarket.com

With six locations from Raleigh, Cary and Chapel Hill to Greensboro and Charlotte, Café Carolina is a neighborhood cafe that offers fresh foods and a warm atmosphere equally suited to a quick bite or a leisurely meal. www.cafecarolina.com

The Law Firm of McCullers & Whitaker is committed to representing our clients effectively and efficiently.  For more information about their attorneys and their offices in North Raleigh and Garner, visit them on the web at www.mandwlawyers.com.  The Law Firm of McCullers & Whitaker PLLC . . . get results, not the runaround.

With shows like Hometown Festival with Buddy Michaels, Bluegrass Saturday Night with Tommy Edwards, Folk Sampler with Mike Flynn, and many others, as well as news and community programs, WLHC-FM isdedicated to serving the community and its families and businesses, focusing on that which makes Life special in the Heart of Carolina. www.life1031.com

Grassroots Press specializes in the offset printing of newsletters, brochures, stationery, booklets, business cards and most anything a non-profit or small business needs to function. They focus on the short to medium press runs (250 to 50,000) of one and two color printing, also called Spot Color printing. www.grassrootspress.net