Event Details
Join us at the downtown Erwin Capitol Hall Theater, newly restored with state of the art sound system and great seating and hospitality.
It’s a concert for conseration!
November 7th at 7:30PM
Opening Act: Songwriters Circle with the finals who won the 2026 Love For the Land Songwriters Competition: Will Kruger, Sandra Lambert and Sarah Doan.
Headliner: The Bluegrass Gentlemen
The Bluegrass Gentlemen is a group of North Carolina musicians who perform around the world but call our mountains home. This promises to be a night of award-winning songwriting and virtuosic bluegrass gentlemen at the top of their game and fame. The all-star band is Casey Driessen, “mad scientist on a 5-string fiddle”, Buddy Melton, farmer and North Carolina multi-instrumentalist known from Balsam Range, Darren Shumaker, mandolin player for today’s top bands and lead acts, and popular banjoist and educator, Bennett Sullivan. (Due to a family health emergency Woody Platt sends his regrets that he cannot perform, and we send thoughts and prayers to him.)
sponsors & supporters
- So that our future is clean, green, and bright.
Your concert ticket dollars support the conservation of land and water in Northeast Tennessee through the ARCD and our partnerships.
The ARCD supports individual farmers, neighborhoods, communities, and the whole region, with direct service programs that improve water quality, keep farmland active for the next generation, foster an ecologically-sound and community-safe role of wildfire, and rebuild after Hurricanes and extreme weather.
These sponsors want the same future and support the ARCD’s programs. Thank You!
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Serenity Knoll Farm & Kitchen
- Equinox Environmental
- Cherokee Distributing & Yee Haw Brewing Company
- Unbound Digital
- Radio Bristol
- Campbell's Morrell Music
