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Alison Krauss & Union Station
The most awarded voice in bluegrass — crystalline, patient, and backed by the tightest band the genre ever produced.
Blackberry Smoke
Georgia's keepers of the Southern-rock flame — Skynyrd swagger with songwriter substance.
Charles Wesley Godwin
West Virginia storyteller — Appalachian family history sung in a baritone that fills a hollow.
Old Crow Medicine Show
'Wagon Wheel' originators and old-time revivalists — a string band that plays with punk-rock urgency.
Jake Shimabukuro
The ukulele's Hendrix — four strings doing things four strings shouldn't be able to do.
Joy Oladokun
Bedroom-folk confessionals for the anxious generation — protest music that sounds like a hug.
Molly Tuttle
Two-time IBMA guitar player of the year — flatpicking virtuosity fronting new-school bluegrass.
Peter Rowan
Bill Monroe's former lead singer, still carrying first-generation bluegrass into its eighth decade.
Railroad Earth
Jamgrass veterans — fiddle-driven Americana that stretches out live like a freight train taking a curve.
Sam Bush
The father of newgrass — five decades of mandolin revolution and still the most joyful player on any stage.
Steep Canyon Rangers
North Carolina's Grammy-winning bluegrass institution — as at home backing Steve Martin as headlining on their own.
The Infamous Stringdusters
Progressive bluegrass played by a band happy to jam a traditional tune well past its natural length — Grammy-winning chops, festival stamina.
The Jerry Douglas Band
The greatest dobro player alive, full stop — fourteen Grammys and counting.
AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Blue Highway
Broken Compass Bluegrass
Corey Harris
Dom Flemons
Donna the Buffalo
DUG
Fireside Collective
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra
Hogslop String Band
Jack Lawrence

Jason Scott & The High Heat
Jeff Little Trio
Jim Lauderdale
Grammy-winning North Carolina native and Americana's most prolific lifer — a songwriter's songwriter with dozens of albums and a long bluegrass streak alongside Ralph Stanley.
Kruger Brothers
Lamont Landers
Laura Boosinger
Leon Timbo & The Family Band
Liam St. John
Maggie Rose
Melissa Carper
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
Pete & Joan Wernick
Presley Barker
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Rhiannon Giddens
Roy Book Binder
Scythian
Seth Mulder & Midnight Run

Shelby Means
Sister Sadie
The Band Loula
The Castellows
The Creekers
The Jack Wharff Band
The Waybacks
The Wilder Blue
Trey Hensley
Wayne Henderson
Wyatt Ellis
Zoe & Cloyd