Tickets are on sale now for the 2024 Down Home Season. To avoid ticketmaster fees please call the PineCone Box office at 919-664-8333 or purchase in person at the Martin Marietta Center Box Office. The in-person box office at 2 E South Street in Raleigh is open weekdays 10-2 and an hour before showtime.
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Saturday July 13, 2024 – Alice Gerrard 90th Birthday Celebration – AJ Fletcher Theater
Lower Orchestra: $40 member / $45 public
Upper Orchestra & Front Balcony: $30 member / $35 public
Rear Balcony: $20 member / $25 public
Alice Gerrard is one of the most important old-time and bluegrass musicians performing today. She is a prolific songwriter and a keeper of traditional tunes in her adopted home in the Piedmont of North Carolina. She learned her craft directly from friends and mentors that include Elizabeth Cotten, Hazel Dickens, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Luther Davis and Doc Boggs. In honor of Alice’s 90th Birthday, PineCone hosts a performance with Alice. She will be joined by Tatiana Hargreaves (fiddle), Rebecca Branson Jones (pedal steel), Reed Stutz (mandolin), Hasee Ciacco (bass)
Special Guests: Kay Justice, Ginny Hawker, Andy Cahan, Jim Watson, Joe Newberry, Beverly Smith, Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, Joseph Decosimo, Eliza Meyer, Phil Jamison and Gordy Hinners with more to come!
PAST 2024 SHOWS:
SOLD OUT – Friday January 12, 2024 – Dan Tyminski Band – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $50 General / $45 Member Price
Balcony: $45 General / $40 Member Price
Rear: $18
Dan Tyminski is arguably the most recognizable voice in bluegrass. His voice famously accompanies George Clooney’s performance of the Stanley Brothers’ classic song “I am a Man of Constant Sorrow” in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou, and his vocal collaboration with Swedish DJ Avicii on the song “Hey, Brother” was a global hit, having been streamed more than 1 billion times to date. PineCone audiences first met Dan when he was playing guitar and mandolin for Alison Krauss and Union Station. The Dan Tyminski Band is Maddie Denton (fiddle), Jason Davis (banjo), Grace Davis (bass) and Gaven Largent (dobro).
The evening features an opening set by The Gospel Jubilators.
You can see photos from Dan Tyminski’s PineCone shows over the years here.
Friday January 26, 2024 – Tony Trischka’s EarlJam – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $45 General / $40 Member Price
Balcony: $40 General / $35 Member Price
Rear: $18
Tony Trischka is one of the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For this performance Tony will be honoring the music of North Carolina legend Earl Scruggs. He is a pioneer of the three-finger banjo style that is the signature sound of bluegrass. The show traces Scruggs musical life from childhood his final days.
Tony’s band features Casey Driessen on fiddle, Michael Daves on vocals and guitar and bassist Jared Engel.
Friday February 23, 2024 – Appalachian Road Show – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $45 General / $40 Member Price
Balcony: $40 General / $35 Member Price
Rear: $18
LOW TICKET ALERT – Appalachian Road Show invites us to come and sit a spell as the five-piece band weaves together songs and stories emanating from the mountains and hollers of North Carolina and Virginia, to the coal mines of West Virginia and Kentucky. The band was nominated for the coveted “Entertainer of the Year” Award at the 2023 IBMA Music Awards. You can see photos of their 2023 Awards Show appearance here.
SOLD OUT – Friday March 1, 2024 – Balsam Range – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $50 General / $45 Member Price
Balcony: $45 General / $40 Member Price
Rear: $18
Balsam Range is a PineCone favorite. They’ve played in nearly every setting we’ve got, from the festival mainstage and Down Home Concert series to pick-up sessions in the hotel lobby during World of Bluegrass. As a band, they are quintessentially North Carolina.
They make their home in Haywood County, North Carolina. It’s a close-knit community that sits in between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains. That experience comes out in their music and songwriting. Family, faith, work and home are common themes.
You can see photos from their PineCone shows over the years here.
Friday March 15, 2024 – Dom Flemons & Shultz’s Dream – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $45 General / $40 Member Price
Balcony: $40 General / $35 Member Price
Rear: $18
Shultz’s Dream is a project commissioned by PineCone to pay tribute to Arnold Shultz, one of the founders of bluegrass. The band is led by Dom Flemons (The American Songster). He is joined by Brian Farrow (of Ganstagrass) and IBMA Award winning banjo player Tray Wellington.
You can see video, photos and read more about the project here.
Dom’s latest album “Travelling Wildfire” is nominated for a 2024 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
Friday April 5, 2024 – Bella White – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $45 General / $40 Member Price
Balcony: $40 General / $35 Member Price
Rear: $18
Bella White is a truly original new voice in songwriting. She weaves emotionally rich stories with seemingly simple melodies to create an undeniable magic. Her new song “Burn Me Once” is featured on the Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes soundtrack alongside bluegrass luminaries Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle and Sierra Ferrell.
Although she hails from the Canadian city of Calgary, the 22-year-old singer/multi-instrumentalist grew up on the classic country and old-time music she first discovered thanks to her father, a Virginia native who played in bluegrass bands all throughout her childhood. On her debut album Just Like Leaving, White balances her old-soul musicality with a lyrical perspective that’s entirely of-the-moment, embracing an intense self-awareness as she documents her coming-of-age in real-time. “I was very young when I wrote this album,” says the Victoria, BC-based artist. “All of these songs came from processing my feelings right as I was experiencing certain things for the first time in my life.”
The evening opens with a set from singer/songwriter Ana Egge. Lucinda Williams called Ana “…the folk Nina Simone.” Egge has consistently garnered critical praise for her music, and has worked with producers Steve Earle, Joel Plaskett, Alec Spiegelman, and Stewart Lerman and recorded with Billy Strings, Anais Mitchell and Iris DeMent.
Friday May 3, 2024 – The Red Clay Ramblers 50ish Anniversary – AJ Fletcher Theater
Orchestra: $50 General / $45 Member Price
Balcony: $40 General / $35 Member Price
Rear: $18
The Red Clay Ramblers formed roughly 50 years ago and remain one of the longest running string bands from the Piedmont of North Carolina. The Tony Award winning band have a wide-ranging repertoire that reflects their roots in old time Appalachian music, bluegrass, country, rock, New Orleans jazz, gospel and the American musical. This special anniversary show is expected to be a magical evening.
