New Direction Bluegrass

Location: R.A. Fountain

BENEFIT FOR FLOOD RELIEF

Outstanding traditional & original bluegrass & bluegrass gospel from a Siler City family band

New Direction Bluegrass agrees: all proceeds from tonight’s concert will go to flood relief as administered by the International Bluegrass Music Association. We were part of a benefit on-line concert hosted by IBMA on Wednesday night and heard lots of heartbreaking stories from this year’s award winners, who were receiving their Vocalist of the Year, Band of the Year, and many of the others last week at IBMA’s annual awards evening. even as the flood waters were rising on their homes. 

Help us help our bluegrass community–all the pickers & singers, their families and friends–as they rebuild their lives.

New Direction founding member Bobby Gales, on banjo & guitar, started playing back in the mid 1990s with his two sons, Kendall and Cameron Gales, in “Gospel Grass.”  

His wife, Charity Gales, plays upright bass and sings lead & harmony vocals. 

Sarah Walters, a talented young fiddler who also has  a powerful voice for lead and harmony vocals, grew up playing and singing bluegrass gospel with her family band, the Walters Family. 

Guitarist Brice Hersey is both a flat & finger picker who also does solo gigs.

They’re traveling to another gig nearby, which is why we’ve got them making an RAF stop that you ought not to miss.

Tags: bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, Concert, original, tradtional bluegrass