World of Bluegrass 2019

Growing up just down the road from Doc Watson, Billboard-charting artists Cane Mill Road rock the traditional bluegrass standards they grew up on while boldly tackling original music that walks the lines between Bluegrass, Americana, Old-time and Folk. Audiences love Cane Mill Road’s high-energy performances, easy-going on and offstage rapport and eclectic mix of originals and standards. Peers in the bluegrass industry voted Cane Mill Road one of five nominees for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Momentum Band-of-the-Year for 2018 — an award to honor rising music stars under 30 years old. Cane Mill Road’s banjo player, Tray Wellington, was nominated for IBMA’s Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year. The four young men roam the Blue Ridge Mountain backroads driving between Deep Gap and Rocky Gap, Virginia, to meet and make music together — thus the title track of the band’s sophomore album “Gap to Gap.” The title signifies more than just the long hours on the road touring, but the spaces between the bluegrass foundation of the band’s youth and the new spaces of music they create together. Honoring the past, the band looks to the future with a blended set of traditional and contemporary music.