Randy Houser to Headline first Mile High Music Fest
Randy Houser at Mile High Fest
in the Mountains of NC
by Staff Reports
Country
music star Randy Houser will headline the inaugural Mile High Music Fest on
Sept. 8 at Beech Mountain Resort.
Houser is one of three acts performing at the first-year festival, which will
transform the slopes of the ski resort into a natural amphitheater capable of
seating several thousand people.
Houser will roll into Beech Mountain next month with one of the top singles and
top albums on the Billboard country music charts.
His current hit, "Runnin' Outta Moonlight," is No. 3 on the latest
country singles chart and received the most airplay last week of any country
single in the U.S. It is the second Top 10 hit on the album "How Country
Feels," which has been on the charts for 27 weeks and peaked at No. 3.
Houser, a Nashville resident and Mississippi native, is no stranger to the top
of the charts. His 2008 debut album produced two Top 20 singles, while his second
album, released in 2009, climbed all the way to No. 8 on the album charts.
Joining Houser at the Mile High Music Fest are two high-energy bands well known
to followers of Americana and bluegrass: Donna the Buffalo and Sons of
Bluegrass.
Donna the Buffalo is a five-person band fronted by Tara Nevins. The band has
been at it since 1989, providing their followers -- nicknamed "The
Herd" -- with feel-good, groove-oriented music up and down the East Coast.
The New York band features a soulful and electric Americana sound infused with
elements of zydeco, rock, folk, reggae and country.
Sons of Bluegrass, heralded as one of the best up-and-coming bluegrass groups
in the country, is comprised entirely of majors from the four-year bluegrass
music program at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn.
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