Bluegrass - Ridge Jam - Rhonda Vincent & The Rage - Tennessee

Ridge Jam is an annual Bluegrass music festival held in the beautiful mountains of Blue Ridge Georgia. More info at [email protected] or ridgejammusicfest.com.

Rhonda Vincent is a firecracker of talent that powers one of the hottest bands in any genre of music today. From humble beginnings in the tiny town of Greentop, Missouri, Rhonda’s musical heritage traces back 5 generations of the Vincent family. She began her professional music career singing in her family’s band The Sally Mountain Show. It was an immediate “on the job training,” as they had a TV show, radio show, and made their first recording when Rhonda was 5 years old. She picked up the mandolin at eight, the fiddle at twelve, and learned a valuable life lesson as a teenager performing with her family at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. While they were playing in the pouring rain to empty seats, and what they thought, no one listening -- a week later they received a call from Hal Durham, general manager of the Grand Ole Opry at the time, and who just happened to be listening with his family around the corner. Mr. Durham loved what he heard and invited the Vincent family to appear on the Opry.

Rhonda’s life of music evolved into a successful career in bluegrass music; after being discovered by Grand Ole Opry Star “Jim Ed Brown,” later spending what she calls her musical college years recording for Giant Records, and learning about the music business from Nashville’s best like James Stroud, Jack McFadden, and Stan Barnett. It was her pivotal bluegrass album Back Home Again that transformed Rhonda Vincent into the All American Bluegrass Girl, and crowned the "New Queen of Bluegrass" by The Wall Street Journal in 2000. Her lifelong dream came true when she was invited to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry on February 28, 2020 and was officially inducted on February 6, 2021. Her powerful vocal style transcends the boundaries of bluegrass music, as evidenced in her collaboration with Dolly Parton on the Elton John / Bernie Taupin Tribute Project Restoration 2018. Her new album, Destinations And Fun Places, is out and features guest appearances by Dolly Parton, Cody Johnson, Trisha Yearwood, Jeannie Seely and Sonya Isaacs.

More info at https://rhondavincent.com/

Audio by Jackson Bethune Music LLC
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Video by Jim Crawford. More info at    / 43jimcr