See who’s playing at the 2018 Rhythm & Roots Reunion Bristol VA/TN
Old Crow Medicine Show – photo Rob Dickens
Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2018
Bristol Virginia/Tennessee
Performers Announced
The annual Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival began in 2001 and has been under the umbrella of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum since December, 2012. The Festival generally hosts over 130 bands/performers on twenty stages in the streets and alleyways of downtown Bristol during the third weekend in September.
Attendance has grown to approximately 45,000. Among its many accolades the Festival has been named as one of Rolling Stone’s “Top 20 Tours and Festivals”, and has won a Grand Pinnacle Award from the International Festival and Events Association. The town of Bristol is officially recognised as the Birthplace of Country Music where The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers were first recorded in 1927. That event is known as The Big Bang of Country Music and Johnny Cash has stated that it is the single most important event in the history of country music. There is plenty of musical diversity at the Reunion and the rich musical history of the town adds even more to the vibe and importance of this event. Bristol also forms a key part of The Crooked Road music heritage trail.
Listening Through The Lens found the town in 2013 and covered the Reunion in 2016. See various links below.
Visit The Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Read Our Coverage of Rhythm and Roots Reunion 2016
A small number of Reunion performers was announced last December. Here’s the full line-up:
Old Crow Medicine Show
Railroad Earth Taj Mahal Trio
The SteelDrivers Marcus King Band Twin Peaks Barns Courtney
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Asleep at the Wheel Ruen Brothers
Dale Watson & His Lonestars Old 97’s The Waybacks
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth
Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen ft. John Jorgenson & Mark Fain
The War & Treaty Low Cut Connie Sierra Hull Seldom Scene Acoustic Syndicate
Balsam Range Larry Keel Experience Blue Highway The Cleverlys
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Molly Tuttle Folk Soul Revival Amythyst Kiah
Bill & The Belles The Whiskey Gentry Carson Peters & Iron Mountain
The New Familiars Goodnight, Texas Mt. Joy The Commonheart
The New Respects Annabelle’s Curse C2 & the Brothers Reed Mile Twelve
The National Reserve The Pigeon Kings Birds of Chicago Lilly Hiatt
Ed Snodderly Blank Range The Wooks Devon Gilfillian Zephaniah OHora
Sean McConnell Beth Snapp Virginia Ground
Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys The Last Revel
Sarah Shook & The Disarmers Breaking Grass High Fidelity The Amanda Cook Band
Cordovas Daddy Duo Revel in Dimes Tony Williamson Missy Raines & the New Hip
Annie Robinette Trisha Gene Brady After Jack The Church Sisters Sally & George
JP Parsons & The American Bandwagon McKay & Leigh DownTown Abby & The Echoes
Ancient Cities Andrew Alli Circus No. 9 Hello, Stranger ft. Dale Jett Fritz & Co. If Birds Could Fly
Guy Marshall Young Mister Adam Bolt & The Bevy Adam Lawson Andy Buckner
Andy Ferrell Trio The Baker Family Bella Raye Ben Gilmer Billy Crawford Band The Boys
Breaking Tradition Buffalo Fiasco Chris Jamison Cookin’ With Grass The Corklickers
Dan Deel Daniel Miller & the High Life Duty Free Empty Bottle Stringband ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band
ETSU Old Time Pride Band The Floorboards Folk Alt. Gary Reid Glen Harlow & North Fork
Gracie Lane The Green Fingers The Honey Badgers Indian Run Stringband Indighost
Jackdaw’s 7 Jake Quillin Band James Meadows Jason “Hoss” Hicks & His Southsiders
Joy Blair Justin Crider & The Usual Suspects Kristy Cox Trio Lodi Loose Leaves
The Maggie Valley Band Mark Brinkman Marshall Ballew Milan Miller Monster Atlantic
My New Favorites Possum Creek Playboys The Pythia Rex Montgomery & Mike Jessee
Rhythm & The Roosevelts Ron Short & The Possum Playboys The Royal Hounds The Sammy Guns Band
Saw Black Scotty Melton Sigean Soulfinger Southern Cities Tim Easton Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen Trifecta of Jam
We are returning this year! The Trifest Music Tour 2018 will journey from Nashville to Bristol for the Reunion.
You can join us here, as well as embrace the Americana Music Festival and Conference in Nashville Tennessee and the Roots n Blues n BBQ festival in Columbia Missouri.
Find out about joining the TriFest Music Tour – two places left
See who’s playing at the 2018 Rhythm & Roots Reunion Bristol VA/TN
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