JASON and the SCORCHERS and Drivin' N Cryin' are excited to announce Live Performance Taping 

Bluegrass Underground Sets Season VI  
(held 333 feet below the Cumberland Plateau in the world-famous Volcano Room,  
the jewel in the crown of Cumberland Caverns. How cool!)  

Nine-time Emmy-winning music show films new series April 1-3.  

Tickets Pre-sale Friday, January 29, 2016 (5:00 pm CST)  
All remaining tickets go on sale at 10am CST Saturday, January 30, 2016  

TICKETS GO FAST - USUALLY within minutes of going on sale  

Award-winning Americana TV series Bluegrass Underground will head back to Cumberland Caverns April 1-3 to shoot its sixth season for PBS. Dubbed “Austin City Limits-meets-Nova,” the roots-music showcase has featured many of the premier artists in bluegrass, country, blues, folk and roots-rock, including The Civil Wars, Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show, Vince Gill and the Timejumpers, Leon Russell, Hot Rize, Amos Lee, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Lucinda Williams and Railroad Earth.  

Shot amid the unparalleled beauty of Cumberland Caverns’ Volcano Room, Bluegrass Underground Season VI will feature another eclectic mix of certified icons, legends-in-the-making and Americana stars of tomorrow. Artists include the GRAMMY-winning bluegrass band The Cox Family, GRAMMY-nominated contemporary bluegrass masters Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, iconic singer/songwriter/musician Mac McAnally,  cowpunk pioneers Jason & The Scorchers, beloved Southern rock band Drivin‘ N Cryin’, Americana kingpins The Dave Rawlings Machine, as well as groundbreaking newer artists like mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull, R&B dynamos St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Brooklyn’s majestic Lone Bellow, New Orleans rabble-rousers Hurray For the Riff Raff, dancefloor-filling jam band JJ Grey & Mofro and the rootsy soul of The Suffers.  

It all adds up to the world’s biggest and best subterranean music festival, “The Greatest Show Under Earth”, held 333 feet below the Cumberland Plateau in the world-famous Volcano Room, the jewel in the crown of Cumberland Caverns, an internationally-known tourist destination located in McMinnville, Tenn.  

The new series will start airing this fall, but music lovers can be part of it all right now. Package tickets for all three days go on sale on Friday, Jan.29. In addition, Bluegrass Underground is offering Bucket List ticket packages including food and lodging, and a very limited number of special VIP Experience packages, with lodging in luxury Tennessee cabins, including reserved seating and food plus private concerts and meet-and-greets with the artists.  

Tickets sell out in minutes, so plan ahead and buy early to be a part of this years taping. All remaining tickets go on sale at 10am CST Saturday, January 30, 2016 from https://www.bluegrassunderground.com/tickets/    

Friday, April 1, 7 p.m. - From a Whisper to a Scream  

Sierra Hull - The mandolin prodigy from Byrdstown, Tenn., is all grown up and comes to us fresh from releasing her jaw-dropping , Bela Fleck-produced solo album, Weighted Mind.  

The Cox Family - One of the finest vocal trios in bluegrass and traditional country, Suzanne, Evelyn and Sidney Cox have returned to the national music scene and released their first album in almost 20 years, the critically-acclaimed Gone Like the Cotton.  

Jason & The Scorchers - This year, Jason Ringenberg and his bandmates will celebrate 35 years of smashing down the walls between country and rock, but they sound like they’re just getting started.  

Drivin’ N Cryin’ - Frontman Kevin Kinney says DNC “sounds like your record collection” and, with a show that goes from intimate acoustic folk to sprawling arena rock, it’s one really, really, really good record collection.  

TICKETS  

Saturday 02 April and Sunday 03 April lineups at www.bluegrassunderground.com  

Bluegrass Underground Comes to National Prime Time  

Feb. 19, Bluegrass Underground will be featured in a one-hour, prime-time national PBS special, presenting the best of the first five seasons of the Emmy-winning show. Check local listings for exact times.  

Bluegrass Underground began in August, 2008, when Nashville-based producer Todd Mayo held his first event at Cumberland Caverns’ Volcano Room, presenting the original SteelDrivers, featuring Chris Stapleton on lead vocals. In 2011, after producing dozens of concerts there, Mayo partnered with filmmaker Todd Jarrell, forming Todd Squared to produce Bluegrass Underground as a weekly half-hour show for PBS. WCTE, based in Cookeville, Tenn., became the presenting PBS station. Since then, Bluegrass Underground has won a total of nine Emmy Awards and is nominated  for five more at the 2016 Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards, ceremonies to be held Feb. 27 at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.