Titled Paper Airplane, the new album is set to drop on April 12. This is the first new studio release to follow Krauss’ efforts and success with Robert Plant, the former Led Zeppelin frontman who paired with her beautifully on the award-winning Raising Sand. Airplane was recorded in Nashville and includes new tracks plus covers of Richard Thompson’s “Dimming of the Day,” and Jackson Browne’s “My Opening Farewell.”

Krauss has missed recording with the band, saying, “I really wanted it to be just the five of us, so it’s pretty stripped down. We all have different tastes, and our backgrounds show up in a wonderful way on this record.”

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Her performance was part of the 10-year celebration of O Brother Where Art Thou, during which she played “Down to the River to Pray,” followed by The Whites, who played “Keep on the Sunny Side” and Dan Tyminski and Union Station who played “Man of Constant Sorrow.”

Later she was joined by Bluegrass Hall of Famer Rodney Dillard to present the event’s top award, Entertainer of the Year to Dailey & Vincent.

“One of the things we tell the guys on the bus before we go onstage is that there’s people in that crowd who may have financial problems or health or marital problems—any kind of trouble you can image. It is our job to go in there for an hour or two and entertain them and do what we can to take their troubles away,”  said Dailey.

The ceremony was held Sept. 30 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

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Get Low stars Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black and portrays the true story of Felix “Bush” Breazeale, a shut-in who plans and attends his own “funeral party” in 1938.

Alison Krauss’ song was written by Aoife O’Donovan. Instrumentation was provided by Jerry Douglas on Dobro; Dan Tyminski on mandolin; Barry Bales on bass; and Bryan Sutton on guitar.

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Alison Krauss tickets to her upcoming festivals this summer are hot! She’ll be with Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis on May 2; The Hangout Beach Music and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, Ala. May 14 – 16; The Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival on May 16 in Gettysburg, Penn.; The Riverbend Music Festival in Chattanooga, Tenn., on June 12; and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colo., June 17-20.

The Hangout Beach Music and Arts Festival has a huge lineup this year with performances by the Zac Brown Band, Jakob Dylan and more!

The documentary, which is spread over six episodes, has taken six years to film. It features parks from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, and the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska.

If you missed the concert, you can still see the series tomorrow, Sept. 27, on PBS.

Both artists performed an hour-long concert and took questions in front of around 120 music students from high schools in Tennessee, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Krauss performed “Angelina Baker” and “I Know Who Holds Tomorrow.”  She told the kids to “enjoy what your voice sounds like.”