The Bluff Country Gathering is a four-day event presenting traditional American music, dance and singing styles. Workshops are conducted by a staff of nationally acclaimed musicians, singers, dancers and folklorists who ass along the traditions of old-time music to participants at all levels of experience.

Our Friday night concert features all staff musicians. This year the line-up includes:

Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones share southern song duets and soaring fiddle, guitar, mandolin and banjo tunes.

Jimmy Triplett plays fiddle tunes learned from rare field recordings and visits with older musicians throughout West Virginia and Alabama. His repertoire is rich in Appalachian heritage, evoking the spirit of homemade music from before the advent of commercial recordings.

The Forty Drop Few is a trio originally from the Southwest that plays popular music of the early 1900s.

Charlie Walden is recognized as a premier old-time fiddler, and is an avid performer of traditional Bluegrass and other Hillbilly fiddle styles. He plays guitar and mandolin, too.

Patt Plunkett first heard traditional fiddle music played by her grandfather, Carl.  Her appreciation of old fiddle tunes has made Patt the most sought-after piano accompanist for old-time and Celtic music in the Midwest.

Molly Tenenbaum has been playing old-time banjo since she was a teenager. She was inspired by musicians living in and passing through Los Angeles when she was growing up, by her travels around the Southeastern United States, by field recordings, and by revival artists.

Karen Celia Heil is an intense and soulful fiddler who is also known for her powerful guitar playing and singing with The Bucking Mules and Joseph Decosimo.