BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2832@old-site.manor-mill.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T220000 DTSTAMP:20260219T163611Z URL:https://old-site.manor-mill.com/events/chris-jones/ SUMMARY:Chris Jones & The Night Drivers in Concert and Conversation DESCRIPTION:“When I first heard Chris Jones over 25 years ago\, he became one of my favorite singers\, and he continues to have one of the most dis tinctive and best voices in music\, period. It’s like fine wine for the ears.”— Jim Lauderdale\nChris Jones &\; the Night Drivers make some of the most distinctively elegant yet driving bluegrass music heard anywh ere today. Deeply rooted in tradition but never bound to it\, they deliver original music with tight arrangements\, emotional authenticity\, and eng aging humor.\nAs actor and banjo player Steve Martin says\, “Chris Jones ’ voice is there with the great masters\,” adding that the Night Drive rs are “some of the best players in bluegrass.”\nCollectively\, Chris Jones &\; the Night Drivers have won 12 IBMA awards and have racked up 27 #1 songs. The band’s full-length release\, their first all-original a lbum\, Make Each Second Last\, has received rave reviews and yielded an un precedented eight consecutive #1 songs\, including the title track “We N eeded This Ride.” Their song “Riding the Chief\,” co-written by Chri s and Thomm Jutz\, was nominated for 2022 IBMA Song of the Year. They have topped both the Bluegrass Today and Roots Music Review airplay charts wit h the latest album.\nTheir new EP\, Pages in Your Hand\, has also yielded two more #1 songs\, including the title track. In July of 2022\, they made their debut on the Grand Ole Opry and were soon asked to return.\nChris J ones &\; the Night Drivers are currently signed to one of bluegrass mus ic’s top record labels\, Mountain Home Music Company\, for whom they’v e recorded five critically acclaimed albums. They have become popular repe at performers at major festivals like MerleFest in North Carolina\, Califo rnia’s Huck Finn Jubilee\, and the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield\, Kansas.\nThey have filled a wide variety of venues around the world\, tour ing across the U.S. and Canada\, and throughout Europe\, including Germany \, Switzerland\, the Czech Republic\, and Ireland. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://old-site.manor-mill.com/wp-content/uploa ds/2026/02/DLDtIV8A.jpeg CATEGORIES:Live Performances & Music LOCATION:The Loft\, 2029 Monkton Road\, Monkton\, MD\, 21111\, United State s X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2029 Monkton Road\, Monkton \, MD\, 21111\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Loft:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR