‘Bluegrass Underground’ To Move To New & Permanent Home In 2018
By Scott Bernstein Aug 18, 2017 • 12:31 pm PDT
EMMY-winning PBS live music television series Bluegrass Underground today announced the show has found a permanent home. The Caverns, which is located within the base of Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee’s beautiful Cumberland Plateau, will host the program starting in early 2018 as per an announcement by Bluegrass Underground Creator and Executive Producer, Todd Mayo.
The Caverns is said to, “boast singular natural acoustics and will accommodate many more subterranean music lovers in response to increasing demand for tickets to Bluegrass Underground and for other live music concerts across expanding genres” according to a statement. “This is a dream come true to find a cave system that expands and improves the live and televised musical experiences of underground performances we have been curating since 2008,” Mayo said. “Our new home at The Caverns will enable us to add infrastructure with permanent power, professional audio and lighting with enhanced food and beverage concessions that have never before been possible, including a longtime request from our patrons: cold beer.”
Producer Todd Jarrell explained how the new venue will benefit the television show, “In the past, we taped the entire 12-episode season over one weekend due to the difficulty and expense of bringing literally tons of cabling and show gear a quarter mile into the cave. But The Caverns’ permanent infrastructure presents us the flexibility to match calendars with some of the world’s greatest performers, enticing them underground to offer our fans a ‘deep down’ lifetime experience throughout the year.”
“Bluegrass Underground is now far more easily accessible to the vast majority of our regional patrons as well as our national and international fly-in fans,” added Joe Lurgio, General Manager and Associate Producer of Bluegrass Underground. “And for the first time, Bluegrass Underground will be more easily accessible for patrons with physical disabilities.” Look for as many as 50 performances to be held at The Caverns in 2018 and the offerings may be expanded to include symphonic music, comedy shows and “some truly unexpected underground surprises.”
