Billboard Magazine said High Country "has the kind of bright, warm, Flatt and Scruggs sound that dominated bluegrass in the 1960s . . . a welcome switch from technical flash to back porch virtuosity." Come help these longtime Freight favorites celebrate their 35th anniversary, and enjoy the exciting, driving rhythms, deft picking, and soulful singing that have won High Country its reputation as one of the freshest traditional bluegrass groups around. Tonight's anniversary celebration features not only the band's present incarnation-mandolinist Butch Waller, banjo player Larry Cohea, bassist Glenn Dauphin, fiddler Tom Bekeny, Bob Waller on guitar, and Jim Mintun on guitar and dobro-but also welcomes back into the fold as many former High Country members as will fit on the Freight stage. The band's seventh album, The Earthquake (Strictly Country), firmly reinforced its status as California's premier band in the Bill Monroe and Stanley Brothers tradition, with its vital mix of powerful originals and standards, from blues to breakdowns to gospels sung in close harmony.