Keith Case & Associates and Columbia Artists Management are now accepting dates for a package show featuring bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys and family supergroup Cherryholmes.
The twin billing will offer dates from fall 2008 through the summer of 2009.
For more details, contact Keith Case in Nashville (615-327-4646) or Toby Tumarkin in New York (212-841-9563).
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