Storyteller’s two-disc, 24-song set includes Snider favorites such as “Tension,” “Rose City” and “Sunshine,” with backing from Colorado’s Great American Taxi.

Snider will share the Music City Roots bill with country vet Charlie Louvin, Two Man Gentlemen Band, The Carter Brothers, The Band of Heathens, My Name Is John Michael and host Jim Lauderdale.

Published by Dave Paulson 1-6-11 in The Tennessean

In fact, our local boys, who go by the group name of Street Corner Symphony, made it all the way to the finals in the second season of the show and finished in third place, rallying fans across the country with their modern blend of a cappella. The guys caused quite a sensation on the show with their versions of Radiohead’s “Creep,” Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Train’s “Hey Soul Sister” and even a Beatles medley that would have made the original band proud.

To celebrate their progress on the show, Street Corner Symphony performed Tuesday night at Exit/In and the response for tickets was so overwhelming a second late set was added to the lineup.

“This is a great town and a beautiful moment in time for us to come together,” Jeremy Lister told the audience.

Hosted by industry insider Dean Shortland, the group was joined by some very famous faces including Yale’s own a capella group, The Whiffenpoofs, a highly lauded bunch that has been around since 1909 and each year chooses 14 new seniors to make up the voices. They too competed on “The Sing Off” but were voted off in the early rounds.

And winners of “The Sing Off,” Alabama gospel group ‘Committed’ also made an appearance but it was two local faces that caused the biggest stir in the audience. Singer/songwriter Ben Folds, who was one of the judges on the television show, surprised guests when he joined Street Corner Symphony on stage during the early show and Alison Krauss drew huge applause when she dropped in for the late show to sing her tune, “Maybe” backed by all three groups.

Krauss has been publicly acknowledged as one of Street Corner Symphony’s biggest influences and it seems she’s quite fond of them too.

“I looked for different phones so I could call in and vote again and again,” she told the crowd. “I couldn’t even sleep the night before the finale.”

Original Heather Byrd article at http://nashville.metromix.com/events/essay_photo_gallery/byrds-eye-view-street/2392365/content

Everyone knows Jeff is the accordion player to call… but wow!  We love his piano playing quite a bit too!

The Nashville Potato Guns recording their upcoming release… wow!  Wait till you hear these guys!

The Infamous Stringdusters are the new vanguard of acoustic music. Well crafted songs, vivid arrangements, instrumental virtuosity, stunning improvisation, unique individuality and complete harmony… Bluegrass, Rock, Country, Blues, Folk, and Jazz, the “IS” is American Acoustic Music.

Catch the band as they play for the Bluegrass Underground radio taping held down in the Cumberland Caverns Volcano Room, near Fall Creek Falls State Park, in Middle, Tennessee.

Visit BluegrassUnderground.com to purchase tickets.

Bluegrass Underground is taped live 333 feet below ground at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville Tn inside of what was named by the first people to behold the natural amphitheatre, The Volcano Room. Here water and time entwined 3.5 million years ago to create one of the most acoustically pure natural spaces on earth. No man-made sound reaches the Volcano Room and the living rock hued amid the eons is jagged and uneven, providing limited echo.

The primordial silence and perpetual darkness give way each month to the sounds of the finest music of the greatest bluegrass musicians on earth. Regardless of outside temperature, the Volcano Room is a constant 56 degrees.

Your experience at Bluegrass Underground begins at Cumberland Caverns in the light of day. Tour guides lead you through the cave entrance and into another world. Your subterranean descent takes you past underground pools and waterfalls and to the Volcano Chamber where you will enjoy music in a venue unlike any other you are likely to ever experience And don’t worry about silencing your cellphone…you won’t find any service here.

Buy tickets and view schedule:

Bluegrass Underground: Bluegrass music from Cumberland Caverns broadcast live on WSM 650: Venue

We’ll miss your gray market economy, with Frisbee-chucking weirdos selling burritos, beer and mystery balloons from the back of Econoline vans. We’ll miss the way you blended hippie jam bands like Rusted Root with indie rock bands like Death Cab for Cutie and the resultant nine-car social pile up that ensued. Hell, we’ll even miss the sunstroke and smell of the non-VIP camping area.

But it’s all over now. You could have had yourself a nice little time with David Cross in the comedy tent, dozens of stoners mesmerized by “The Big Lebowski” and maybe a nice Phil Lesh/Lupe Fiasco duet, but no. You got greedy. You wanted a big-time name near the top of the bill. You had to go cock things up and get Metallica.

Let there be no question: Metallica will kill Bonnaroo. When they’re done, Manchester, Tenn. will be a post-apocalyptic swath of scorched farmland, burned out VW Microbuses and tufts of shredded hair yanked from hipster beards. Why, you ask? Because this band is like Rogue from the X-Men, it kills everything it touches. Here are five solid examples to ponder before the special brownies kick in.

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Five Reasons Why Metallica Will Doom Bonnaroo Forever – Esquire