• Mountain Song Festival nets $40,000

    We heard this morning from Graham Sharp, banjo picker and vocalist with Steep Canyon Rangers. He wanted to let us know how things turned out with the 2010 Mountain Song Festival, which the band hosts each year in North Carolina. The

  • Martin, Steep Canyon Rangers on ABC online

    Video from yesterday's appearance by Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers on Good Morning America is now available on the ABC web site. They performed two songs from Steve's 2009 CD, The Crow. Woody Platt, guitarist and vocalist with Steep Canyon

  • FestivalLink collection to benefit grassers

    FestivaLink, the online purveyor of live show downloads, has released a special package of sets from Merlefest 2010, with a portion of the sales proceeds going to benefit the Bluegrass Trust Fund. The fund is administered by the International Bluegrass Music

  • Big news from Steep Canyon Rangers

    Katy Daley had Woody Platt from Steep Canyon Rangers on her Bluegrass Country show this morning, and he shared some pretty cool news about their upcoming collaboration project with Steve Martin. Turns out that after five days in the studio with

  • Steve Martin in USA Today

    USA Today had a nice feature on Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers in yesterday's (6/21) edition. The piece by Jerry Shriver is fairly typical of many such articles that have been published since Steve began touring in support of The

  • Steve Martin follow-up with The Rangers

    Billboard is reporting that Steve Martin will be heading back into the studio in August to record a follow-up to The Crow, using The Steep Canyon Rangers as his accompanists. Martin and the Rangers are touring together this month in