The Travelin' McCourys
Schedule
Thu Oct 01 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Eddie's Attic | Decatur, GA
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**The Travelin' McCourys live at Eddie's Attic!**From a source deep, abundant, and pure, the river flows. It’s there on the map, marking place and time. Yet the river changes as it remains a constant—carving away at the edges, making new pathways, gaining strength as it moves forward. The Travelin’ McCourys are that river.
The McCoury brothers—Ronnie (mandolin) and Rob (banjo)—were born into the bluegrass tradition. Talk about a source abundant and pure: their father, Del McCoury, is among the most influential and successful musicians in the history of the genre. Years on the road with Dad in the Del McCoury Band honed their knife-edge chops and encouraged the duo to imagine how traditional bluegrass could carve innovative pathways into 21st-century music.
“If you put your mind, your skills, and your ability to it, I think you can make just about anything work on bluegrass instruments,” says Ronnie. “That’s a really fun part of this—figuring the new stuff out and surprising the audience.”
The band’s lineup includes Christian Ward (fiddle), who joined after Jason Carter moved on to pursue a solo career, alongside Alan Bartram (bass) and Cody Kilby (guitar). Together, they assembled a group capable of honoring the traditions embedded in their DNA while pushing the music boldly forward. In fact, the band became the only group to have each of its members recognized with an International Bluegrass Music Association Award for their instrument at least once.
Their peers also recognized that bluegrass could be both historic and progressive. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Allman Brothers Band, improv-rock kings Phish, and jam-band contemporary Keller Williams were among those who formed a mutual admiration society with the ensemble.
The band performed at the Allman Brothers’ Wanee Festival and guitarist Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam, an annual holiday homecoming of Southern music. An early jam with The Lee Boys—hailed by many as the highlight of the night—caught fire online and earned the band a legion of new, young fans drawn to their supercharged blend of sacred steel, R&B, and bluegrass. Other highlights include collaborations with Dierks Bentley, onstage magic with String Cheese Incident and Phish, recording an album with Keller Williams (Pick), and creating the Grateful Ball—a tribute concert-turned-tour bridging bluegrass with the iconic music of the Grateful Dead.
“That’s something that’s part of us being who we are,” says Ronnie. “It comes, too, with us plugging in. It gets louder, for sure. We can’t be another version of our dad’s band. It wouldn’t make any sense for us to do that.”
Their concerts became can’t-miss events—whether headlining historic venues or appearing as festival favorites—earning the love and respect of a growing fanbase drawn to their eclectic repertoire. At the 2016 edition of DelFest, the annual gathering named for the McCoury patriarch, the band delivered the festival’s standout performance. Rolling Stone called it “a sublime combination of rock and bluegrass, contemporary and classic, old and young. The best set of the festival…”
The river was going new places, getting stronger. It was time to re-draw the map.
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Eddie's Attic, 515 N McDonough St,Decatur, Georgia, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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