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The legendary Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Saturday Dec 5, 2009 8:30 PM
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Tickets on sale now! 2-Day passes available for tonight's show and Packway Handle Band for $28. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. for dinner and drinks.
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys | 9:30 PM
 Born February 25, 1927 in Dickenson County, Virginia; lives in Coeburn, Virginia
Ralph Stanley’s voice is not of this century nor of the last one, for that matter. Its stark emotional urgency is rooted in a darker time, when pain was the common coin of life and the world offered sinful humanity no hope of refuge. Preserved in the cultural amber of remote Appalachia, this terse, forlorn sound is the bedrock of Stanley’s inimitable style. But don’t mistake an ancient voice for ancient ways. Stanley tours and performs with the vigor and elan of a rock star.
Now 82 years old, Stanley has been performing professionally since he and his older brother, Carter, formed a band in their native southwestern Virginia in 1946. Between that date and 1966, when Carter died, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys became one of the most celebrated bluegrass groups in the world, rivaling in popularity such titans as Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs.
After Carter’s death, Stanley shifted the band’s musical emphasis from hard-driving bluegrass to an older, sadder, less adorned mountain style. As a bandleader, he nourished such young and promising talents as Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks and Charlie Sizemore, all of whom eventually graduated to distinguished solo careers.
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