Missy Raines & Allegheny join Blue Ridge Music Center’s summer concert series lineup

Missy Raines & Allegheny is joining the Blue Ridge Music Center’s Deep Roots, Many Voices summer concert series lineup. The bluegrass/Americana innovators will take the stage at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 29, in the outdoor amphitheater.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $12 for season passholders, and free for children 12 and younger. Tickets can be purchased at BlueRidgeMusicCenter.org.

Raines is a bluegrass trailblazer. She has received multiple awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association, and has won the Bass Player of the Year 10 times, making her the most awarded musician in the category.

Her long and adventurous musical journey has been informed by the southern Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic bluegrass of her youth. As a teen, Raines soaked up the sounds of The Country Gentlemen, The Seldom Scene, The Johnson Mountain Boys, and the other neo-progressive groups that propelled bluegrass music forward in the 1970s. In the early years of her career, she spent hours learning from and playing with many first-generation bluegrass legends.

Though Raines was raised on bluegrass, it is her unrelenting urge to immerse herself into other sonic realms that has led to numerous lauded collaborations in the areas of Americana, country, and folk.

Allegheny, her touring band, is named for the region of West Virginia where Raines grew up. The group features some of the brightest young stars in bluegrass today with Ben Garnett on guitar, Eli Gilbert on banjo, Ellie Hakanson on fiddle, and Tristan Scroggins on mandolin.

With a cultivated sound that is traditional and hard-driving at its core, Missy Raines & Allegheny celebrate both the history and evolution of the “high, lonesome sound,” walking the fine line between respect and rebellion.

Summer concerts are hosted Saturday evenings, May through August, in the venues’ outdoor amphitheater. Gates open at 5:45 p.m. and concerts begin at 7 p.m.

Season passes (full, half, and Pick 3) and individual concert tickets are available at BlueRidgeMusicCenter.org.

Deep Roots, Many Voices Summer Series lineup:

May 25 East Nash Grass + The Amanda Cook Band

June 1 Caleb Caudle performing with Wild Ponies

June 8 Chatham Rabbits

June 15 The SteelDrivers + The Wilder Flower

June 22 An Evening with Tuba Skinny

June 29 Missy Raines & Allegheny + None of the Above

July 6 The Alum Ridge Boys & Ashlee performing with New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters

July 13 David Wax Museum

July 20 Fireside Collective performing with Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road

July 27 Martha Redbone + Zoe & Cloyd

Aug. 3 The Kruger Brothers

Aug. 17 An Evening with Steep Canyon Rangers

Aug. 24 Alison Brown Quintet performing with Wayne Henderson & Friends

Aug. 31 Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway