PineCone & Town of Cary Present Free Concert Featuring Red June

April 27, 2012 - PRLog -- PineCone returns to Cary's Sertoma Amphitheatre for another Summer Series at Sertoma! This year, Asheville-based trio Red June will kick things off with an evening of music you won't want to miss. Veteran musicians Will Straughan (dobro, steel guitars, vocals), Natalya Weinstein (fiddle, vocals), and John Cloyd Miller (guitar, mandolin, vocals) formed Red June in 2008 after working with other acclaimed groups, namely the Emma Gibbs Band, Lo-Fi Breakdown, and Polecat Creek. Members of Red June have shared the stage with countless bluegrass and Americana greats, including James Taylor, Robert Earl Keen, Sam Bush, Joe Craven, Jim Lauderdale, Del McCoury, Alice Gerrard, Jim Shumate, and BB King, and they have performed at festivals including Merlefest, Shakori Hills, RockyGrass, Grey Fox, Grand Targhee, and MagnoliaFest. The trio recently perform as part of Merlefest's 25th Anniversary lineup. Their new CD, Beauty Will Come, will officially be released on June 5, but you can pick up an advance copy at this concert! Red June performs in Cary on Saturday, May 12, beginning at 6 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.

Red June is an acoustic power trio performing beautifully distilled Americana music that drips with soul. The Red June sound is as versatile and original as the musicians themselves; they blend bluegrass, roots rock, and traditional country music with powerful harmonies, honest, heartfelt songwriting, and top shelf musicianship.

Red June’s September 2010 release, Remember Me Well, was voted #1 in WNCW’s (the Southeast’s premier independent radio station) Regional Top 20 Contest and #31 in their “Top 100 albums of 2010.” Remember Me Well was funded, in part, by a grant from the Asheville Area Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Miller was an early member of the bluegrass band Lo-Fi Breakdown, and he is the grandson of pioneering bluegrass fiddler and NC Folk Heritage Award winner Jim Shumate. Weinstein is a champion fiddler who has performed and recorded with Polecat Creek and Lo-Fi breakdown, among others; she is a highly sought after session musician and music instructor. Straughan has toured extensively across the U.S. and Europe with both the Emma Gibbs Band and other collaborations; as the lead singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist for Emma Gibbs, his song "Blck Road" earned a spot on the CD sampler for Paste Magazine's inaugural issue.

Learn more about Red June and this concert: http://www.pinecone.org/event-detail.php?id=157