EMMYLOU HARRIS

With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America 's most important musical movements of the past three decades. A steadfast supporter of roots music and a skilled interpreter of compelling songs, she also has been associated with a diverse and dazzling array of admiring collaborators from Bright Eyes to Tammy Wynette and from Neil Young to Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. The songbird's contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years Emmylou Harris certainly has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own.

The wide range of Harris' repertoire is mirrored by the musicians who have sought her out as a collaborator. She has recorded with artists from such diverse points on the musical compass as The Band, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Little Feat, Tammy Wynette, Neil Young, Bill Monroe, Lyle Lovett, Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Garth Brooks, Lucinda Williams, and George Jones. Stars such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Jon Randall and The Whites have emerged from the ranks of her bands.

Harris is invited to perform everywhere from colleges and Universities to Carnegie Hall and from the massive Bonnaroo jam-band rock festival to bluegrass events, headlining San Francisco's annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and making a nearly-annual visit to Telluride, Colorado for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. "That just delights me," admits Emmylou. "It proves what I've always thought: that people are eclectic in their tastes, just like me." For the most part, I think people just want to hear good music."