Bluegrass in the Pavilion 2014
Saturday, April 12, 2014
3:00 p.m. (The Pavilion will open at 2:30 p.m.)
Tickets $35
All proceeds benefit the South Arts' emergency planning for Gulf Coast cultural institutions.
The 10th Annual Bluegrass in The Pavilion concert continues to bring the best Bluegrass musicians to South Florida. Artists for the 2014 performance are to be announced.
In 2013 Audie Blaylock & Redline and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performed great Bluegrass music at this National Historic Landmark. All proceeds from the concert benefitted South Arts’ emergency planning for Gulf Coast cultural institutions.
With over 35 albums to their credit, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have multiple Grammy, Dove, ICM, IBMA and SPBGMA Award nominations, and are seven-time winners of IBMA's Vocal Group of the Year. Doyle Lawson received two nominations in the 17th Annual Inspirational Country Music (ICM) Awards held in Nashville on October 28, 2011, with fellow nominees including such country giants as George Strait and Carrie Underwood. Lawson also won two IBMA Awards, and was recently heralded by journalist Craig Havighurst as "one of music's lions..."
Of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's performance at the August 2011 IBMA Awards Press Conference, which garnered three standing ovations from a sold-out crowd in Nashville, Havighurst wrote: "There was no question who was going to close the show. Doyle Lawson is one of music's lions at this point, and when he came out in perhaps the most beautiful western jacket I've ever seen... he was a holy vision. ... When DLQ, in quartet mode, nailed the final chorus of the a cappella gospel song "He Made It All Right," I swear we were mainlining the holy spirit. You know how the word awesome gets overused and misused? Here's where it applies."
Born in El Paso, Texas, into a family whose roots go back to the hills of Virginia and Tennessee, Audie learned to play guitar and sing with his parents and siblings, and went on to play locally in the Lansing, Michigan area where he grew up. In 1982, at age 19, Audie Blaylock joined Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys and spent nine years on the road learning the craft of Bluegrass from one of the music's first-generation legends.
Audie Blaylock has performed with some of Bluegrass music's most distinguished acts over the years including the great Jimmy Martin and Rhonda Vincent & The Rage as well as doing session work that earned him a Grammy® nomination for Best Bluegrass Album and an IBMA nomination for Recorded Event of the Year for "A Tribute to Jimmy Martin: The King of Bluegrass." This group project included Audie Blaylock on guitar and vocals along with a stellar lineup of musicians including former Sunny Mountain Boys J.D. Crowe, Paul Williams, and Kenny Ingram. He has also performed with the legendary Red Allen, The Lynn Morris Band and songwriting great Harley Allen. Audie Blaylock and Redline had the honor of being nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Association's Emerging Artist of the Year award in both 2005 and 2006.
"Spend your money on this one, folks. It's a keeper." – Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association