Bluegrass Underground

Band patriarch Del McCoury has earned a National Heritage Fellowship, induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, GRAMMYs and multiple IBMA awards.

Unrepentantly southern, Jason Isbell serves as the point of the americana spear and one of the country's absolute best young singer-songwriters with carefully crafted songs simultaneously inspiring and intimidating musicians and critics alike.

Raised on church harmony, these four Nashville-born siblings form one of the world's premier gospel quartets in their own right. These soulful and powerful sisters bring profound strength and truth to their message of love and redemption.

The Lone Bellow roots-folk-rock trio has been nominated americana duo/group of the year. With simple, finely-crafted songs of redemption buoyed by a larger-than-life power, their set created magic in the Underground.

Davina is the rare dichotomy of the self-professed shy, reserved, and tentative personality juxtaposed with a primal piano prowess and look-at-me brass that embodies the idea of "showmanship." In her, Mae West meets Bette Midler meets Dr. John.

A Country Music Hall of Famer and 22-time GRAMMY winner, Gill is known for his razor-sharp instrumental skills, an ultra-expressive tenor voice, his richly varied songwriting and his sense of humor. This is as good as country music gets.

Fronted by Paul "St. Paul" Janeway — one of the most charismatic lead singers to take a stage since James Brown — this seven-piece Alabama band's sound is big, strong, sweat-soaked and a true homage to soul forefathers.

Melding southern rock, blues-rock, funk and hard rock, Widespread Panic are, unquestionably, one of the most successful bands of a generation, having risen to elite status among American jam bands.

Multiple Grammy winner and an enormous presence in the diversified world of deep, literary songwriters, Williams is a groundbreaking, truly unapologetic architect of that simmered blend of country, blues, folk, off-the-shoulder rock 'n' roll that has been born as the Americana genre.

Grammy-winning, Country-Latin-Rockin' band is fronted by the transcendent vocals of Raul Malo. Serving up irresistible Cuban groove under clean Bakersfield-guitar twang, the band have charted 14 singles with their fresh "Pan-Americana" sound.

Multi-Grammy winner, Brandi Carlile's style revolves around several genres, including pop, rock, alt-country, and folk. Hers are the stories of love, forgiveness, reconciliation.