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Words & Images by: Bill Clifford Yonder Mountain String Band & Railroad Earth :: 10.17.09 :: Nokia Theatre :: New York, NY Adam Aijala - YMSB :: 10.17 :: New York City For live music fans, it's always a wonderful rush when two of your favorite acts are performing together.

After much anticipation, bluegrass patriarch Del McCoury and WAMU's Bluegrass Country's Katy Daley announced the initial lineup for the 3rd Annual DelFest live on air this morning.

MCCOURY MUSIC & HIGH SIERRA MUSIC ANNOUNCE INITIAL LINEUP FOR 3rd ANNUAL DELFEST at ALLEGANY COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, CUMBERLAND, MD Del McCoury Band After much anticipation, bluegrass patriarch Del McCoury and WAMU's Bluegrass Country's Katy Daley announced the initial lineup for the 3rd Annual DelFest live on air this morning.

High Strung Music presents banjo player Danny Barnes & bassist Mike Bub in concert Tuesday Oct.27 at Patton Alley Pub.

Talks and tunes dominate this mid-autumn week. The calendar includes: talks by John Eisenberg, David Wroblewski, Liaquat Ahamed, Jerry Apps, Jim Wallis, and a quartet of vampire experts; Women Rock for the Cure, and, more live music by Sunset Rubdown, Arlo Guthrie, The Avett Brothers, Drummer, and Yonder Mountain String Band.

KCMV 106.3, 106.9, 104.1 1. "Meet Me On The Equinox," by Death Cab for Cutie 2. "Frozen Fear," by Gov't Mule 3. "Complicated," by Yonder Mountain String Band 4. "Better Together," by Jack Johnson 5. "Coming Up Easy," by Paolo Nutini 6. "I Feel A Change Comin' On," by Bob Dylan 7. "Wheels," by Foo Fighters 8. "Blackbird," by Marcy Playground 9. "The ...

Bringing the full force of an electric band with just four string instruments, Yonder is able to whip audiences into a frenzy with their feverish and skillful musicianship, whether it be from Adam Ajiala's guitar, Ben Chambers' bass, Jeff Austin's mandolin, Dave Johnston's banjo or the combined force of all four of their voices singing.

Yonder Mountain String Band plays at Rams Head Live in Baltimore tonight . Danny Barnes, recently signed to ATO Records by owner Dave Matthews, opens both shows.

Greensky Bluegrass is poised to become the next big thing on the adventurous jamgrass scene with predecessors like Yonder Mountain String Band and Railroad Earth.

Share + Sep 20, 2009 2:44 pm US/Mountain DENVER The members from the popular Yonder Mountain String Band were busy over weekend with some side projects.

Members of the Moon Mountain Ramblers, a string band from Bend, describe their music as a melting pot of jazz, country, rock and a lot of bluegrass.

Last month, Yonder Mountain Stringband released, The Show , their 10th studio album and the first on their own Frog Pad label.

Hot Buttered Rum will perform Sept. 11 and 12 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

As we reported in July , the Pixies will visit the Fillmore Auditorium Monday, November 16 as part of a nine-city US tour celebrating the twentieth anniversary of act's 1989 watershed album Doolittle .

Brian Eno once said, half-seriously, that those few people who initially heard the Velvet Underground all formed bands.

After last year's U.S. Bluegrass chart-topping continuation of their official live release Mountain Tracks, Volume 5 , the Colorado quartet return with The Show and producer Tom Rothrock as they continue to expand their sound.

Dave Matthews Band performs Sept. 1 at Usana Amphitheatre. Yonder Mountain String Band's Jeff Austin loves the Salt Lake City eatery Red Iguana.

Earl Scruggs formed The Foggy Mountain Boys with Lester Flatt in 1948. Enrico Fuente via Flickr David Johnston plays banjo in the Yonder Mountain String Band.

The jam with which YMSB's music has been flavored since its 1998 founding is spread thinner than usual on The Show , a new album being given to attendees of a Friday, August 28, Red Rocks concert co-starring Xavier Rudd .