{"id":1805,"date":"2024-02-05T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2024-03-15T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:36:51","slug":"the-alum-ridge-boys-ashlee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/the-alum-ridge-boys-ashlee\/","title":{"rendered":"The alum ridge boys &#038; ashlee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hard-Driving Old-Time Mountain Music from the Blue Ridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashlee Watkins &#8211; guitar<br \/>Andrew Small &#8211; mandolin\/fiddle<br \/>Trevor Holder &#8211; banjo<br \/>Rina Rossi &#8211; bass<br \/>AJ Srubas &#8211; fiddle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mining the fertile common ground between bluegrass, early country music, and traditional mountain music, The Alum Ridge Boys &amp; Ashlee are Virginia\u2019s torchbearers of the old time sound. Their powerful harmony singing and energetic instrumentals have captivated audiences around the globe and helped the band to win many awards including blue ribbons in the old time band contest at the 85th Annual Old Fiddlers\u2019 Convention in Galax, Virginia and the bluegrass band contest at the 51st Mount Airy Fiddlers\u2019 Convention in North Carolina. Band members have won a slew of individual awards as well, including first prize in the 29th Annual MerleFest Chris Austin Songwriting Contest. Deep appreciation for traditional music enables the band to craft tasteful original songs and instrumentals that blend seamlessly alongside the classics. The Alum Ridge Boys &amp; Ashlee cut no corners when it comes to real, hard hitting, old time country music &#8211; an approach that is gaining them loyal followers far beyond the reaches of their Virginia mountain home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-Driving Old-Time Mountain Music from the Blue Ridge Ashlee Watkins &#8211; guitarAndrew Small &#8211; mandolin\/fiddleTrevor Holder &#8211; banjoRina Rossi &#8211; bassAJ Srubas &#8211; fiddle Mining the fertile common ground between bluegrass, early country music, and traditional mountain music, The Alum Ridge Boys &amp; Ashlee are Virginia\u2019s torchbearers of the old time sound. Their powerful harmony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blog","9":"has-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bluegrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}