Event Detail
Del McCoury Band
Location: Meymandi Concert Hall at Progress Energy Center
Date: Saturday February 2nd, 2008
Time: 8 pm
The Del McCoury Band—a quintet fronted by the family patriarch and supported by his two sons, Ronnie McCoury on mandolin and Rob McCoury on banjo—is undeniably one of the most talented, venerated and vital groups in the modern bluegrass era. The Washington Post recently deemed Del McCoury “a national treasure”, while numerous music publications have credited the band with increasing the bluegrass “hip factor," generating much of the genre's steady upswing in popularity with a more youthful crowd. The Del McCoury Band has now won more International Bluegrass Music Association awards than any other artist in the genre’s history with more than 40 individual and group citations from the IBMA--including a whopping nine “Entertainer Of The Year” honors. They won a Grammy in 2006 for "Best Bluegrass Album" for their album The Company We Keep, and have recently released their very first all gospel bluegrass album, The Promised Land. With a professional career spanning five decades, Del McCoury has proven not to be a relic of bluegrass music's past but an architect of its future.
This concert is part of PineCone’s 2007-08 Down Home Music Series.
Visit: www.progressenergycenter.com