Balsam Range
Balsam Range is an American bluegrass and acoustic music group founded in 2007 in Haywood County, North Carolina. They are 2014 and 2018 International Bluegrass Music Association (IMBA) Entertainer of the Year award recipients. Their other accolades include IBMA Vocal Group of the Year (2014, 2015), Song of the Year (2011, 2015), and Album of the Year (2013, 2017). Balsam Range consists of three original members—Tim Surrett on upright bass, resonator guitar, and vocals; Caleb Smith on guitar and vocals; and Marc Pruett on banjo, as well as Alan Bibey on mandolin, who replaced Darren Nicholson in 2022. Lead singer and original member Buddy Melton, fiddle and lead vocals, also departed the band, in January 2025.
Genre: bluegrass, neo-traditional-bluegrass, progressive-bluegrass, banjo
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Top Tracks
- What Child Is This? (Reckon Whose Young'un This Is? Mix) [feat. Balsam Range]
- What Child Is This? (feat. Balsam Range)
- She's Gone to L.A. Again
- Any Old Road (Will Take You There)
- Mary's Little Lamb
- Last Train to Kitty Hawk (Live)
- Paper Town
- Backdraft
- Jingle Bells
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- I'm Going Home, It's Christmas
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- The First Noel
- Christmas Lullaby
- The Girl Who Invented the Wheel
- Hobo Blues
- Get Me Gone
- Richest Man
- Grit and Grace
- Rivers, Rains and Runaway Trains
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