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IBMA Winners Balsam Range Rock Raleigh

Balsam Range
Balsam Range

In the winter of 2007, five Haywood county bluegrass musicians got together for an informal jam session. Out of that collaboration, the band Balsam Range was born. They are nominated in six different categories for the International Bluegrass Music Awards including Entertainer of the Year and Song of the Year. They will play at Merlefest showcase as part of the Wide Open Bluegrass Festival in Raleigh this afternoon and the Awards show this evening. Host Frank Stasio talks with Balsam Range members Buddy Melton, Darren Nicholson, Marc Pruett, Caleb Smith and Tim Surrett live from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

Update: Balsam Rangewon "Album of the Year"for their album "Papertown" at the International Bluegrass Music Awards.

Watch the segment from The Museum of Natural Sciences here.

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Laura Lee was the managing editor of The State of Things until mid February 2017. Born and raised in Monroe, North Carolina, Laura returned to the Old North state in 2013 after several years in Washington, DC. She received her B.A. in political science and international studies from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002 and her J.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 2007.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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