Prine, Strings join MerleFest line-up

Monday, December 9, 2019 – John Prine, Billy Strings, Colin Hay, Kelsey Waldon, and Gangstagrass will join the MerleFest line-up, it was announced today.

The fest will be held April 23-26, 2020 at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, N.C.

Hay is the former lead singer of Men at Work. Waldon is a country-based singer/songwriter, who is on Prine's Oh Boy label. Gangstagrass is a bluegrass/hip-hop group. The group was responsible for "Long Hard Times to Come," the theme song to the hit FX drama Justified. Today's lineup announcement adds five great artists to MerleFest's already stacked lineup: Willie Nelson & Family, Alison Krauss, The Jerry Douglas Band, Sam Bush, Jim Lauderdale, Kruger Brothers, The Waybacks, Scythian, Donna The Buffalo, Peter Rowan and the Free Mexican Airforce, Tommy Emmanuel, Shinyribs, Charley Crockett, Darrell Scott, The Steel Wheels, Robbie Fulks, Amythyst Kiah, Cordovas, Alison Brown, Andy May, "B" Townes, Banknotes, Bill & The Belles, Bryan Sutton, Carol Rifkin, Charles Welch, Chatham Rabbits, Che Apalache, The Cleverlys, Creole Stomp with Dennis Stroughmatt, David Holt, Fireside Collective, Flattop, Happy Traum, Hogslop String Band, InterACTive Theatre of Jef, Irish Mythen, Iron Horse Bluegrass, Jack Lawrence, Jeff Little Trio, Jody Carroll, Joe Smothers, Ken Crouse, Laura Boosinger, The Local Boys, Los Texmaniacs, Mark Bumgarner, Mary Flower, Mitch Greenhill, Pete & Joan Wernick, Piedmont Bluz, Presley Barker, Rev. Robert Jones, Roy Book Binder, Sierra Ferrell, String Madness, T. Michael Coleman, Tony Williamson, Wayne Henderson, The Moore Brothers, The Williams Brothers, and Wyld Fern.