Tickets $20 in advance, $25 day of show
Tanasi’s world-inspired mountain music taps into the similarities of roots artists across the globe and crafts it into a sound that has a way of seeping into those deep parts of your heart, bringing it home. This collaboration of three celebrated Asheville, NC-area roots artists, features the tight sister harmonies of MerleFest-winning songwriter Anya Hinkle and Mary Lucey (Biscuit Burners, Uncle Earl) with the inimitable dobro musings of Billy Cardine, who after his collaboration with Edgar Meyer’s Porous Borders of music, Jerry Douglas said “I couldn’t have picked a better example of where the Dobro is now or what the possibilities are with the instrument.” Members of the trio have toured the world over from Japan to India to Europe and across the US at festivals such as Bonnaroo, Rockygrass and Merlefest and on stages such as The Ryman Auditorium, The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Anya Hinkle’s music is steeped in the tones of folk and bluegrass and seasoned by travels the world over. No Depression says of her 2021 release Eden and Her Borderlands [Organic Records] “…one of roots music’s gems so far this year.” She “effortlessly delivers…” (Pop Matters) with "...vivid songwriting and transportive vocals…” (Folk Alley). Hinkle won the 2019 MerleFest Chris Austin Songwriting Competition; her new album, Oceania, produced by Kevin Moloney (US, Sinéad O’Connor) releases on Red Parlor Records in May 2024.
Billy Cardine has been recognized as a slide guitar pioneer, taking the Dobro with him into unchartered genres. Dobro master Jerry Douglas calls him “an amazing Dobro player. He is fluent in everything that I do and everybody that has come before.” He has toured in India, Japan, Europe and Canada, performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Ryman Auditorium and major festivals such as Bonnaroo, Merlefest and Rockygrass.
Mary Lucey is a talented vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. A bass player for the Biscuit Burners and the all-female group Uncle Earl, she has been showcasing clawhammer banjo as her rhythmic muse with projects Lovers Leap and The Billy Sea, playing venues such as The Kennedy Center, Ryman Auditorium, Bonnaroo, Merlefest and Rockygrass.
