One of the most respected and influential music artists in roots, bluegrass and country music today, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder have just been added to Sunday night’s Main Stage line-up at the festival.
A fourteen-time Grammy Award-winner, Ricky Skaggs was a teen prodigy who worked with both Ralph Stanley and Flatt & Scruggs. Steeped in roots, country and bluegrass, he is a peerless and dazzling vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.
Skaggs’ career is easily among the most significant in recent country music history. If Skaggs’ burgeoning trophy case full of awards wasn’t already enough evidence of that fact, consider that legendary guitarist Chet Atkins once credited Skaggs with “single-handedly saving country music.” Not one to rest on his laurels, Ricky Skaggs is now actively defining and re-shaping the direction of another indigenous American genre of music – bluegrass.
The term ‘multi-talented’ lacks the power to characterize this extraordinary singer and instrumentalist. Not only can he sing and pick with the best in progressive country and bluegrass, his broad and deep experience in traditional music separates him from the crowd. In the estimation of many, he is without peer as a combination vocalist and instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo).
For more information on Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder go to www.skaggsfamilyrecords.com or http://www.myspace.com/rickyskaggs
