Catch Steep Canyon Rangers on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Thursday, May 3

Debut Solo Late Night Performance

“It’s always a special occasion playing The Tonight Show, and this will be no exception.
We’re gonna cut loose a little bit this time around.” – Graham Sharp

The Steep Canyon Rangers are no strangers to The Tonight Show. Now, firmly established headliners in their own right, the Steep Canyon Rangers are thrilled to make their debut solo late night television performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, airing Thursday, May 3.

Steve Martin and Martin Short have announced their Netflix comedy special: Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life. The special is set to air beginning on May 25th and will feature appearances by the Steep Canyon Rangers who are also Steve Martin’s backing band.

With OUT IN THE OPEN (Ramseur Records) Steep Canyon Rangers affirm their place as one of the most versatile and idiosyncratic bands in all of contemporary American music. The GRAMMY® Award-winning, North Carolina-based sextet has spent nearly two decades bending and shaping the bluegrass aesthetic, wedding it to elements of pop, country, folk rock, and more to create something original and all their own. OUT IN THE OPEN is perhaps Steep Canyon Rangers’ bravest excursion thus far, transcending bluegrass while in many ways getting closest to the genre’s true form thanks to producer Joe Henry’s very traditional approach toward recording.

Steep Canyon Rangers have been expanding the parameters of bluegrass since coming together in 2000. Since then, the band has developed a remarkable catalogue of original music that links them to the past while at the same time, demonstrates their ambitious intent to bring string-based music into contemporary relevance.