Alison Krauss and Union Station feat. Jerry Douglas Headline Earl Scruggs Music Festival 2025

Alison Krauss and Union Station feat. Jerry Douglas Headline Earl Scruggs Music Festival 2025

Alison Krauss & Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas will headline the Earl Scruggs Music Festival on Saturday for the 4th annual bluegrass gathering, set for Labor Day Weekend (August 29-31) 2025. Returning to Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, NC, Scruggs Fest features world class music, supreme amenities, and all-ages activities.

The first to be announced for next year’s lineup, twenty-seven-time GRAMMY winner Alison Krauss will assemble her award winning outfit, Union Station, featuring dobro legend Jerry Douglas, for the group’s first tour together in a decade. The acclaimed ensemble will embark on a 73-stop voyage across the United States and Canada in 2025 and are also set to release new music next year. Scruggs Fest patrons will have the rare opportunity to experience Alison Krauss and Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas live, alongside a stellar lineup of additional artists (to be announced) at the 2025 festival. Tickets are on sale now, with on-site lodging options available for purchase at EarlScruggsMusicFest.com.

Now entering its fourth year, Earl Scruggs Music Festival was established in partnership with WNCW 88.7 at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, NC and the Earl Scruggs Center located in Shelby, NC. According to Bluegrass Today, Scruggs Fest “has already risen to the top tier of annual music festivals.” Of the 2023 festival, Rolling Stone noted “there were countless reminders of Earl,” while WMOT adds, “[Scruggs’ family] would have been impressed by this tribute to the most influential bluegrass musician in history,” and Grateful Web dubs the festival “a truly exceptional event.” Stay tuned for lineup news and more information about Earl Scruggs Music Festival 2025.

About Alison Krauss & Union Station:
For nearly four decades, Alison Krauss & Union Station have upheld their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music. Known for an immaculately crafted but endlessly surprising sound that transcends the boundaries of roots, country, rock & roll, and pop, Alison Krauss & Union Station are putting the finishing touches on a new album to be released in 2025 – their first album since the 2011 masterpiece Paper Airplane—a critically lauded, multiple Grammy Award winning LP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Album charts. Over the years, Alison Krauss & Union Station have brought their phenomenal live show to sold-out performances at famed venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre, The Greek Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, and London’s Royal Festival Hall, in addition to supporting Paul Simon in Hyde Park for his 2012 Graceland reunion. They now gear up for their first tour together since 2015.

The players – Alison Krauss (fiddle, lead vocal), Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, vocals), Barry Bales (bass, vocals), and welcoming highly acclaimed and celebrated tenor vocalist Russell Moore (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal) as the newest member – are five distinct personalities, each of whom enjoys a flourishing solo career. But when they come together, they transform into a peerless group of musicians who share a singular focus.

Alison Krauss website