Join us for ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!

The Flying J Ranch Presents:

Banjo Legends With Riley Baugus, Alan Munde, and Bill Evans!!!

A ticket includes the delicious chuckwagon supper, the Western Show, and admission to the Flying J Ranch attractions & entertainment. Prices include parking and gratuity.

The Banjo Legends return! It’s time for our annual Flying J concert spotlighting the five-string banjo, this year featuring the authentic old-time mountain sounds of North Carolina musician Riley Baugus and the hard-driving traditional and contemporary banjo virtuosity of bluegrass banjo legends Alan Munde and Bill Evans, a 2024 inductee into the American Banjo Museum’s Hall of Fame.  Riley, Alan and Bill will be accompanied once again by an All-Star New Mexico Band featuring Steve Smith, Anne Luna & David Thom in this one-time only New Mexico performance! 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. $45 ticket includes dinner and a short opening set from the Flying J Wranglers.

Bill Evans is a 2024 American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame inductee and is a recipient of the 2022 Steve Martin Banjo Prize. He has been involved with bluegrass music and the banjo for over forty-five years as a player, teacher, composer, author and historian. He has recorded five critically acclaimed solo recordings, including “Things Are Simple,” his 2023 release that “Bluegrass Unlimited” magazine called “not only a masterpiece but a celebration,” featuring his wife Babi and daughter Corey. Bill is the author of Banjo For Dummies and he hosts five online instructional courses for Peghead Nation. He’s performed all over the world, including an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony, and was a featured performer in last year’s Flying J Banjo Legends concert and with bluegrass guitar pioneer Dan Crary. Learn more at www.billevansbanjo.com

Alan Munde is a bluegrass banjo legend – easily among the most influential players of all time as well as being one of the world’s most accomplished and prolific teachers. Alan began his career in bluegrass music with the 1968 recording of Poor Richard's Almanac featuring Sam Bush and Wayne Stewart, followed by a traditional grounding in bluegrass music as a member of Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys. In 1972, Alan joined his college friend Byron Berline in the forward-leaning bluegrass group Country Gazette and he continued as the anchor of the group for twenty-one years. Along the way, he recorded many highly regarded albums including Banjo Sandwich and the Festival Favorites series. Alan taught in the Bluegrass Music Program at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas from 1986 to 2006 and since that time, he has become a mainstay of the international banjo camp scene. He is a 2021 recipient of the Steve Martin Banjo Award and a member of the Banjo Hall of Fame. Learn more at https://almundesbanjocollege.com

Riley Baugus was born and raised near Winston-Salem, North Carolina and started playing banjo at the age of 10. He was inspired by the traditional Appalachian music that he heard in his family’s community in the Blue Ridge mountains and went on to learn his craft while still a youngster from such old-time greats as Tommy Jarrell, Dix Freeman and Robert Sykes. Riley has played with numerous old-time string bands, including The Red Hots and the Old Hollow Stringband and has recorded on his own for Rounder and Sugar Hill records. He sings on the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film Cold Mountain and performs on the Grammy award winning Raising Sand by Alison Kruass and Robert Plant and Willie Nelson’s Country