Volume Five
SHEFFIELD-The annual Jake Landers Bluegrass Concert will be held 7 p.m., February 9 at the historic Ritz Theatre, 111 W. Third St., Sheffield. The concert will be headlined by Volume Five and feature Iron Horse. Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, 511 N. Water Street in Tuscumbia, at 256-383-0533, tvaa.net or ritztheatre.ticketleap.com. All seats are reserved.
Prior to the concert, at 6 p.m., Scooter Muse, Weston Stewart and Nick Foster will present a free presentation on the five-string banjo, part of the “Wires & Wood” series. They will go over and demonstrate various playing techniques from beginner to advanced skills.
Mississippi-based Volume Five recently celebrated 10 years together, and their trophy shelf includes two 2017 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards for Emerging Artist of the Year and the Song of the Year award for “I Am a Drifter.” The band includes the talents of Glen Harrell on fiddle and vocals, Patton Wages on banjo and vocals, Jacob Burleson on guitar and vocals and Jeff Partin on bass. Recently Volume Five announced the addition of Adam Steffey to the band. He is a 5-time Grammy award winner and record-holding 11-time IMBA Mandolin Player of the Year Award winner. The Ritz Theatre is honored to have the new lineup from Volume Five perform at the Jake Landers Bluegrass Concert.
Iron Horse
“It’s such an honor to be part of this concert to honor Jake Landers,” Harrell said. “He was a true friend and inspiration to so many. Thank you so much for allowing us to be part of such a wonderful thing in memory of our pal Jake.”
Iron Horse performs at concerts across the U.S. and Canada. The group creates much of its’ own music, but is well renowned for their exceptional skill and ability to transpose metal to bluegrass. This versatility enables Iron Horse to perform such standards as “Rocky Top” and “Man of Constant Sorrow” with a spirit and sense of style that pays the most gratifying compliment to acoustic and bluegrass lovers, while entertaining “metal-heads” with the familiarity of the compositions of metal and pop icons all on the same stage.
Iron Horse is a Shoals-based bluegrass group that spun off of the Jake Landers Band and features Tony Robertson, Vance Henry, Ricky Rogers and Anthony Richardson.
Henry said Iron Horse has been familiar with Glen Harrell and Volume Five for many years.
“We’ve jammed with him at some bluegrass festivals and he’s been a band mate of our banjo player Anthony Richardson at one time,” Henry said. “They’re a great group and the Shoals needs to hear them. They’re down from Mississippi, they’re home folks to a certain extent. It’ll be a good show.”
Robertson said they’ve been looking forward to this year’s event.
“It is a perfect combination of high-quality talent and wholesome entertainment,” he said. “Volume Five is a world class band, not to mention a Grammy-nominated group and it’s an honor for me to share a show with them. This is just another example of how Alabama can bring it when it comes to producing a high-quality event.”
The Jake Landers Bluegrass Concert was created in 2010 to honor Shoals bluegrass artist, Jake Landers who performed at the Grand Ole Opry and was one of Bill Monroe’s “Blue Grass Boys.” He is an award-winning songwriter and Grammy nominee. Landers is an Alabama Music Hall of Fame Music Achiever and was inducted with the first class into the Alabama Bluegrass Hall of Fame.
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