CMR Nashville start broadcasting exclusive to Europe next Thursday July 2, WSMs 'Bluegrass Underground'. at 4 pm and 10 pm and every Thursday thereafter on www.cmrnashville.net.  Bluegrass also every Friday at 4pm and weekends with Ronnie Norton and Lonesome Highway see schedule for times..

 

This weeks Live Guests The Steeldrivers, next week The Grascals

 

"Bluegrass Underground is proud to call CMR Nashville home in Europe.  CMR Nashville's programming reflects the full spectrum of country music, from it's historical roots and current branches to all of the offshoots and genres that fall under the country music tree.  Bluegrass Underground emanates from one of the most unique venues in the world, a naturally-occurring subterranean amphitheatre called the Volcano Room 333 feet underneath beautiful McMinnville, Tn at world famous Cumberland Caverns where the acoustics are phenomenal.  We hope the European and world-wide audience enjoys the show, which each week highlights some of the best musicians on(and under) our earth" says Todd Mayo, of Loblolly Ventures who produces the show.

 

 

Bluegrass Underground Live at World Famous Cumberland Caverns

McMinnville, TN —Bluegrass Underground is a new radio show 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. All performances will be entirely acoustic and unamplified. Each show will be recorded, mixed, and edited by Grammy-Winning Recording Engineer, Phil Harris. The goal is to arrange the band around one large tube microphone to record and perform the way it was done in the Golden Age of Radio.

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 bluegrass and acoustic 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.