Audie Blaylock and Red Line will headline the Coleman Station Bluegrass Festival on Saturday July 25.
Audie Blaylock Bio:
Audie Blaylock takes center stage in 2009 with a brand new self produced album on Rural Rhythm Records and continues to wow audiences with the energy of the early days of bluegrass to every show. Blaylock is joined by Redline, a group of exceptional musicians and vocalists that include: Jason Johnson on mandolin and vocals, Matthew Wallace on bass and vocals, Evan Ward on banjo and vocals, and Patrick McAvinue on fiddle.
Multi-Grammy® Award winner Carl Jackson wrote in the liner notes "...This new project by Audie Blaylock and Redline is not only “bluegrass”… its GREAT bluegrass… no argument… end of discussion!!! I was blown away by the professionalism of Audie’s performance at IBMA Fanfest this past year and this album further confirms that he is a force to be reckoned with in the world of bluegrass music for years to come."
Four-time IBMA Guitar Player of the year candidate, Audie Blaylock has performed with some of bluegrass music’s most distinguished acts over the years including the great Jimmy Martin and Rhonda Vincent & The Rage as well as doing session work that earned him a Grammy® nomination for Best Bluegrass Album and an IBMA nomination for Recorded Event of the Year for" A Tribute to Jimmy Martin: The King of Bluegrass." This group project included Audie Blaylock on guitar and vocals along with a stellar lineup of musicians including former Sunny Mountain Boys J.D. Crowe, Paul Williams, and Kenny Ingram. He has also performed with the legendary Red Allen, The Lynn Morris Band and songwriting great Harley Allen. Audie Blaylock and Redline had the honor of being nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Association's Emerging Artist of the Year award in both 2005 and 2006.
In October 2007, while Blaylock was the featured artist with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock, they brought home the Instrumental Group of the Year Award at the 18th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards show held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN. “I’m extremely honored to receive the award that so many prestigious and talented musicians have been nominated for and received in the past. This is a great honor for myself and the entire group,” said Audie Blaylock. “This is particularly humbling when you consider the caliber of the past recipients such as Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Nickel Creek, Del McCoury and others,” he adds.
With the release of his first solo CD, Trains are the Only Way to Fly, Country Standard Time said: "From the opening title cut to the finale, "Pages of Time," there is no mistaking Audie Blaylock's music as anything but hard driving, traditional-style bluegrass."
Born in El Paso, Texas into a family whose roots go back to the hills of Virginia and Tennessee, Audie learned to play guitar and sing with his parents and siblings, and went on to play locally in the Lansing, Michigan area where he grew up. In 1982, at age 19, Audie Blaylock joined Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys and spent nine years on the road learning the craft of bluegrass from one of the music's first-generation legends.
Red Line:
Audie Blaylock Bio:
Audie Blaylock takes center stage in 2009 with a brand new self produced album on Rural Rhythm Records and continues to wow audiences with the energy of the early days of bluegrass to every show. Blaylock is joined by Redline, a group of exceptional musicians and vocalists that include: Jason Johnson on mandolin and vocals, Matthew Wallace on bass and vocals, Evan Ward on banjo and vocals, and Patrick McAvinue on fiddle.
Multi-Grammy® Award winner Carl Jackson wrote in the liner notes "...This new project by Audie Blaylock and Redline is not only “bluegrass”… its GREAT bluegrass… no argument… end of discussion!!! I was blown away by the professionalism of Audie’s performance at IBMA Fanfest this past year and this album further confirms that he is a force to be reckoned with in the world of bluegrass music for years to come."
Four-time IBMA Guitar Player of the year candidate, Audie Blaylock has performed with some of bluegrass music’s most distinguished acts over the years including the great Jimmy Martin and Rhonda Vincent & The Rage as well as doing session work that earned him a Grammy® nomination for Best Bluegrass Album and an IBMA nomination for Recorded Event of the Year for" A Tribute to Jimmy Martin: The King of Bluegrass." This group project included Audie Blaylock on guitar and vocals along with a stellar lineup of musicians including former Sunny Mountain Boys J.D. Crowe, Paul Williams, and Kenny Ingram. He has also performed with the legendary Red Allen, The Lynn Morris Band and songwriting great Harley Allen. Audie Blaylock and Redline had the honor of being nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Association's Emerging Artist of the Year award in both 2005 and 2006.
In October 2007, while Blaylock was the featured artist with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock, they brought home the Instrumental Group of the Year Award at the 18th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards show held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN. “I’m extremely honored to receive the award that so many prestigious and talented musicians have been nominated for and received in the past. This is a great honor for myself and the entire group,” said Audie Blaylock. “This is particularly humbling when you consider the caliber of the past recipients such as Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Nickel Creek, Del McCoury and others,” he adds.
With the release of his first solo CD, Trains are the Only Way to Fly, Country Standard Time said: "From the opening title cut to the finale, "Pages of Time," there is no mistaking Audie Blaylock's music as anything but hard driving, traditional-style bluegrass."
Born in El Paso, Texas into a family whose roots go back to the hills of Virginia and Tennessee, Audie learned to play guitar and sing with his parents and siblings, and went on to play locally in the Lansing, Michigan area where he grew up. In 1982, at age 19, Audie Blaylock joined Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys and spent nine years on the road learning the craft of bluegrass from one of the music's first-generation legends.
Red Line:
PATRICK McAVINUE Young, fresh, inspiring, talented, stubborn, spirited, and gifted are all adjectives that describe the bluegrass fiddler, Patrick McAvinue. It was in Elementary School, at the age of seven, when his best buddy introduced him to the fine art of fiddling. In view of his talents, his family supported him in his decision to take private lessons. The three years he was classically trained during school helped him for when at the age of ten, Amy Hopkins, who was a Piedbody student, taught him how to play the fiddle, bluegrass style. He also took lessons from Troy Engle when he was fourteen.Since he began his journey learning the fiddle, he has participated in many fiddling competitions. He has been honored with the title of Delaware State Fiddling Champion. The First band Patrick played with was the Salem Bottom Boys when he was at a very young age of twelve. Since then he has moved on to play with numerous bands from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Many great fiddle virtuosos including Troy Engle, Benny Martin, Stuart Duncan, Aubrey Haynie, Mark O'Connor, and Rickie Simpkins have all inspired Patrick.
EVAN WARD has packed alot of living in his 19 years. Since Evan departed Gerald Evans and Paradise, he has played with Don Rigsby and Midnight Call, The Lynn Morris Band, and some side shows for Higher Crossing that included Marshall Wilborn, Don Rigsby, Ray Craft, Randy Kohrs. He has been featured on the IBMA Youth Stage in 2001, 2002, and 2003. He also was part of a banjo workshop at IBMA in 2004. In August 2001, he was the winner of WBZI Radio Station's Banjo Contest, and in 2002 won the Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival's Youth Band Contest. Evan played on the Grand Ole Opry in February 2003 and went on in May of that year to release his first solo CD featuring his first originally written title cut, "The Beginning".
"Evan Ward is sure to be one of the important banjo players in the 21st Century!" --Glen Duncan
MATT WALLACE spent the last two years playing for the legendary Paul Williams. While with him, their band won the 2007 and 2008 SPBGMA Traditional Bluegrass Gospel Group Award. He has been playing bass since age eleven, but got his first taste of bluegrass in 2004 and picked up the upright bass while playing for his church choir. Born and raised in East Tennessee, Matt graduated from Carson-Newman College in 2006 makes his home in Morristown, TN with his lovely wife Diane and their new son, Whitley."I am extremely thankful for a family that supports and encourages me in all I do. I consider myself blessed to be part of this group and I hope that everyone who hears us will enjoy this music as much as I enjoy playing and singing it."
JASON JOHNSON started playing banjo at eleven years old with his father's gospel group. He later switched off to learn guitar and mandolin as well. When he was 18 years old, he began playing with Joe Isaacs and appeared regularly on the TV program, The Cumberland Highlanders Show. Jason has continued to work as a utility player with local touring bands adding his tenor and lead vocals. He is proud to be playing mandolin and adding his vocal talents to Redline.
Jason is proud to be playing a Dearstone Mandolin.
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