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Bluegrass Underground Live at World Famous Cumberland Caverns
McMinnville, TN — You’ll go underneath Rocky Top for this bluegrass
event. Bluegrass Underground is a new concert series airing on 650
WSM and in syndication that is taped before a live audience 333 feet
below ground in a natural amphitheatre deep inside Cumberland
Caverns in McMinnville, Tennessee. Here water and time entwined 3.5
million years ago to create one of the most acoustically pure
natural spaces on earth. No man-made sound reaches inside the cavern
and the living rock hued amid the eons is jagged and uneven,
providing near perfect resonance. Sound engineers working with the
Concert describe the quality as “like recording in the Ryman.”
The experience at Bluegrass Underground begins at Cumberland Caverns
in the light of day. Tour guides lead you through the cave entrance
and into another world. A subterranean descent takes one past
underground pools and waterfalls and to the underground ballroom
known as “the Volcano Room.” The primordial silence and perpetual
darkness then give way each month to the sounds of the finest music
of the greatest bluegrass musicians on earth. Regardless of outside
temperature, the Volcano Room is a constant 56 degrees.
“Bluegrass Underground will feature established and up and coming
traditional and progressive musicians in an otherworldly venue
without amplification to a world-wide audience of music lovers”,
says Todd Mayo of Loblolly Ventures, who will produce the show. “The
WSM brand is synonymous world-wide with the original American art
form known as country and bluegrass music and Cumberland Caverns is
world-famous as one of the world’s largest and family-friendliest
show caves. Bluegrass Underground is proud to emanate from such a
magical venue as Cumberland Caverns and proud to be heard on the
legend, 650 WSM.”
“Cumberland Caverns is proud to be making musical history here in
the hills of Tennessee” stated Teddy Jones, Marketing Manager for
Cumberland Caverns. “As far as we know, nothing of this nature has
been done in any cave, anywhere.” A registered US National Natural
Landmark, Cumberland Caverns receives thousands of visitors from
across the US and around the world year-round. First discovered in
1810, the caverns is Tennessee’s largest show cave and offers daily
walking tours, spelunking adventure trips, and overnight camping in
the cave.
Getting There
Bluegrass Underground is taped once a month and tickets can be
purchased at the website,
www.bluegrassundergound.com. The
first Bluegrass Underground concert will be held Saturday, August 16
from 4:00 – 6:00 PM with The Steel Drivers. The Grascals will follow
on Saturday, September 27 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM.
Bluegrass Underground can be heard on 650 WSM on the last Friday
night of each month, starting in August, beginning at midnight.
World famous Cumberland Caverns is located in the heart of Middle
Tennessee, centrally located between Nashville, Chattanooga and
Knoxville. The cave is just off of Hwy. 8, six miles southeast of
McMinnville via us hwy 70S between Nashville and Knoxville or via
hwy 55 from I-24 at Manchester between Nashville and Chattanooga.
Contacts
Teddy Jones, Cumberland Caverns
teddyj@cumberlandcaverns.com,
931-668-4396
Todd Mayo, Mayo Gossett,
josephtoddmayo@gmail.com,
615-386-7133
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