Steep Canyon Rangers will headline the Music on the Mountain Bluegrass Festival this weekend at Northeast Alabama Community College in Rainsville.
The band was named Emerging Artist of the Year in 2006 at the International Bluegrass Music Association awards and picked up another two nominations in 2008, including Album of the Year for “Lovin’ Pretty Women.”
This year, their song “Mourning Dove,” from the 2009 album “Deep in the Shade,” is an IBMA finalist for Instrumental Recorded Performance.
In a posting on their website last week, the musicians reported being at work in the studio with actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin “laying down tracks for the first-ever collaborative CD.”
“After 56 stage appearances together (and three TV spots) since 2009, the six musicians will finally make a record … which will contain more than a dozen songs by Mr. Martin, arranged by the group.”