Merlefest 2016: Watch Steep Canyon Rangers Perform “Come Dance”

AG caught up with Woody Platt, guitarist and frontman of the Grammy-winning North Carolina bluegrass band the Steep Canyon Rangers on the band’s tour bus at Merlefest 2016.

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Watch Platt play and talk with me about his beloved Collings guitar and then perform “Come Dance” during the Rangers’ well-attended evening set on the Watson Stage.

Mark Kemp
Mark Kemp

Former AG editor Mark Kemp is the author of Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South (Simon & Schuster, 2004; University of Georgia Press, 2006).