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A Prairie Home Companion is coming to the big screen with live performances by Old Crow Medicine Show, Joe Ely, Sara Watkins and Andra Suchy, as well as the regular show performers. The show will beam a live high-definition video feed from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN to 524 movie theatres across North America at 7 pm CT, 8 pm ET, 6 pm MT and 7 pm PT on Thursday, October 21st. An encore presentation will be shown in select movie theaters on Monday, October 25th.

To purchase tickets for the live and encore events and to find a complete list of participating theater locations visit prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/live-in-hd/.

Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) have announced a new run of summer tour dates starting July 8 in Cincinnati, OH. The band also recently contributed a cover of “Angel From Montgomery” to the upcoming John Prine tribute album, alongside artists like My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Their version of “Angel From Montgomery” will be on the Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, out June 22 (Oh Boy Records).

OCMS has kept busy on the road this spring, bringing their live show to New Zealand and Australia before heading back to the States for their debut appearance at Coachella. Said the Wall Street Journal of their performance: “The Old Crow Medicine Show, fortified by Benmont Tench of Tom Petty's band, played bluegrass and folk that prodded the audience into some of the sloppiest and most joyful country dancing the Nashville-based band is likely to have witnessed.” The band also stopped in New Orleans for Jazz Fest in May, and just last Friday made yet another appearance on the Grand Ole Opry at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, sharing the night with John Michael Montgomery, Lee Greenwood, Mel Tillis and more.

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"These boys were born to play the fire out of some mountain music...and their first concert DVD, Live at the Orange Peel and Tennessee Theatre, gets right to the heart of what they do best...a glimpse of a remarkable old-time string band in its prime." - The Tennessean

Old Crow Medicine Show's first live DVD, Live At The Orange Peel And Tennessee Theatre, debuts this week at #16 on Billboard's Top DVD Music Video Chart with close to 1,000 copies sold in its first week.

Directed by Lee Tucker (who also directed the band’s videos for “Wagon Wheel” and “Tell It To Me”), Live at the Orange Peel and Tennessee Theatre was recorded over two nights last December and features performances of 20 songs—15 of which are from the band’s three studio albums (OCMS, Big Iron World, Tennessee Pusher)—including “Tell It To Me,” “Down Home Girl,” “Alabama High-Test,” and “Wagon Wheel.” The DVD also includes five tracks from their live repertoire not found on their three studio albums: “Wheeling Breakdown,” “Raise A Ruckus,” “Reuben’s Train,” “Sally Anne” and “Shack #9.”

Most loved for their infectious live shows, Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) will release their first live concert DVD, Live at the Orange Peel and Tennessee Theatre, on August 18.
 
Directed by Lee Tucker (who also directed the band’s videos for “Wagon Wheel” and “Tell It To Me”), Live at the Orange Peel and Tennessee Theatre was recorded over two nights last December and features performances of 20 songs—15 of which are from the band’s three studio albums (OCMS, Big Iron World, Tennessee Pusher)—including “Tell It To Me,” “Down Home Girl,” “Alabama High-Test,” and “Wagon Wheel.” The DVD also includes five tracks from their live repertoire not found on their three studio albums: “Wheeling Breakdown,” “Raise A Ruckus,” “Reuben’s Train,” “Sally Anne” and “Shack #9.”

Born out of a deep running comradery built on countless tours and ties between a host of excellent musicians comes The Big Surprise Tour, a traveling show of epic collaboration and good times. Kicking off in Hampton Beach, NH on August 4th, The Big Surprise Tour is not your standard up down up down line up.  Shows will be composed of two 90-minute sets broken up by an intermission.  In a free form ramshackle flow the bands and artists will share the stage, taking part in each other’s songs, resurrecting old standards, and playing newly written collaborative material as they go.  Each evening is sure to be a unique experience as they all put their many combined years of musicianship and knowledge of song-craft and American music into play for these sessions.

Old Crow Medicine Show, who have become known for their infectious live shows, have just released a brand new video for their hit single "Caroline," complete with footage from the stage and from the road. The video premiered exclusively on CMT.com yesterday.

The track is off their latest album Tennessee Pusher, which debuted in September at #50 on the Billboard 200, #7 on the Top Country Albums chart, #16 on the Top Digital Albums chart and #1 on the Top Bluegrass Album chart (where it stayed consistently for 12 weeks).  The band appeared on Late Night With Conan O'Brien,  A Prairie Home Companion, World Café and more!