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The Bluegrass Dream Team: Highlands PAC
Written By: Mary Adair Trumbly - Highlands PAC | Issue: 2021/11 – November
Bluegrass innovators Sideline will perform at Highlands Performing Arts Center at 7:30 P.M. Friday, November 26. For tickets or more information, visit HighlandsPerformingArts.com.
Sideline
Kick off the Holiday Season the Friday after Thanksgiving with a Bluegrass concert by Sideline.
Sideline is a pedigreed six-piece powerhouse whose style has set the pace in Bluegrass for over two decades.
Founders Steve Dilling (banjo), Skip Cherryholmes (guitar), and Jason Moore (bass) can all claim their own historical significance to the genre as members of highly awarded groups, multiple Grand Ole Opry appearances, and years of national and international touring.
What started as a side project for the seasoned players soon moved to the front and center and they began to record and release albums in earnest. In 2019, Sideline won the IBMA Song Of The Year Award for their hit single, Thunder Dan.
Sideline captures what has drawn audiences to Bluegrass over the decades – pulse-pounding drive, songs sung from the heart, perfected timing, and dynamics, as well as a visceral emotion at its core. A band that was started as an off-season fun experiment has become a full-time dream team of players and singers, including its latest additions, Zack Arnold (mandolin), Jamie Harper (fiddle), and Jacob Greer (guitar).
Whether live or in the studio, the sextet moves dynamically from well chosen, hard-hitting neo-traditional covers of classic songs to new material, all curated by a band with a perfect sense of who they are and what they have to say. Combine all this with their onstage energy and finesse as well as their powerful and affecting harmonies, and you have the embodiment of the North Carolina Bluegrass sound.
