Steep Canyon Rangers @ Dominican University

JANUARY 11 @ 7:30PM

Dominican University, Lund Autitorium

This Grammy Award-winning sextet has spent nearly two decades blending the bluegrass aesthetic with elements of pop, country, and folk rock to create something original. Since coming together in 2000, Steep Canyon Rangers have developed a remarkable catalog of original music that links them to the past while also demonstrating their ambitious intent to bring string-based music into contemporary relevance.

The band is bluegrass to the core but continues to evolve with a fresh sound and identity all its own. And, with a passionate and energetic on-stage style, they sure know how to put on a show.

The Steep Canyon Rangers have been pickin’ and strummin’ on tour for audiences for years but the band traces its humble beginnings back to North Carolina.

Nearly all of the band’s six members are originally from North Carolina. Three of them grew up in Brevard, just 30 miles south of Asheville. They grew up with the musical influences of the area, which are steeped in the traditions of bluegrass and old time mountain music. Those traditions trace back to the Anglo-Celtic settlers of western North Carolina who had mastered the craft of telling stories through song.

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