CMT has the Steep Canyon Rangers’ blog bit:
We’re on a brief stop here at a place called ‘home,’ a.k.a. Asheville, N.C. We were up at DelFest last Sunday with Del McCoury and the boys, of course, Dierks Bentley, Punch Brothers, Bela Fleck, Larry Keel, Dan Paisley and a whole bunch more. Bluegrass festivals have always had a history of drawing crowds from all different walks of life: farmers, urbanites, hippies. You name it, they’re at the festival. People familiar with the music know that it thrives in the live setting — the raw, physical sound of the wood, musicians singing their hearts out and sweating like crazy on a long hot summer day.
We’ll be pretty much all over the country this year, Telluride (Colo.), Grey Fox in N.Y., Gettysburg, Penn. — all these festivals are unique and wonderful and sometimes strange in their own way. The Rangers got started in college, at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C., hanging out on Friday afternoons picking on various front porches, not even knowing the big wide world of bluegrass all around us, just loving the music. Once we hit our first festival, we knew that where it was at and we haven’t slowed down since. Come see for yourself, there’s no substitute for being there… — Graham Sharp