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Summer McMahan

  • Wildlands drops for Summer & Bray

    February 17, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Despite their youth, Summer & Bray have been familiar faces on the bluegrass scene for more than a decade. Many of us watched siblings Summer and Brayden McMahan grow up in their family band, Mountain Faith, when they were just teenagers.

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  • Summer Brooke now a sideline reporter for ESPN

    December 6, 2017 | by John Lawless

    No... your eyes are not deceiving you. That is Summer Brooke McMahan interviewing Willie Freeman, Director of Basketball Operations at Western Carolina University, on ESPN! On top of being the lead singer and fiddler with Summer Brooke & the Mountain Faith

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  • Summer Brooke and Mountain Faith sing the anthem… again

    November 28, 2017 | by John Lawless

    This past weekend, The NFL's Atlanta Falcons once again invited Summer Brooke & The Mountain Faith Band to perform the national anthem before their game on Sunday afternoon with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The band brought Seth Taylor along to play

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  • Small Town Life – Summer Brooke & Mountain Faith

    August 4, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Two things leap out of you when you check out the brilliant new project from the Mountain Faith Band, long a favorite here at Bluegrass Today. First you notice that they have officially changed their name to Summer Brooke and

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  • Umbrella drops from Summer Brooke & Mountain Faith

    June 13, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Mountain Faith Band has a new single, the first from their upcoming next album, and a new name! Recognizing the reality that Summer Brooke McMahan is the face and the voice of the group, the band has decided to go now

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  • That Which Matters – Mountain Faith

    October 19, 2015 | by John Lawless

    As the 2015 bluegrass tour season is winding down and professional acts look back on the year that was, can anyone have a bigger story to tell than Mountain Faith? They appeared repeatedly on national television as contestants on America's

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  • Summer McMahan talks America’s Got Talent

    July 29, 2015 | by John Lawless

    Last night during Mountain Faith Band's successful run through America's Got Talent's Judges Cut Round on NBC, Summer McMahan shed what may be the most famous tears in bluegrass music. Certainly the most influential ones in a long time, as

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  • Summer McMahan talks Mountain Faith

    October 12, 2014 | by John Lawless

    Summer McMahan, the talented young vocalist and fiddler with Mountain Faith, spoke with us during IBMA week about their upcoming album, a secular project for Mountain Fever.  

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  • Feeling Blue from Mountain Faith

    September 2, 2014 | by John Lawless

    As promised, here is the new single from Mountain Faith. It's the "sort of" title track from their upcoming Mountain Fever release, Blue, which is due in November. Feeling Blue is a somewhat different sound for the band, with an old

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  • The Story of My Life – Summer McMahan

    March 12, 2014 | by John Curtis Goad

    Summer McMahan, the fiddle player and lead vocalist for western North Carolina Gospel group Mountain Faith, has recently branched out on her own to release her debut solo album. She’s joined by several of her Mountain Faith bandmates here, and

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