Ali Shumate

Artist Information

Biography

Ali Shumate has enjoyed much success over the past couple of years.

Charting on Billboard for multiple months she and her band performed across the mid-Atlantic States on an FYE Store Tour to promote the new album release Heartbreak Train.

Ali performed during the CMA Festival in Nashville at BB Kings downtown and the Gibson Showcase Theater to kick off the album release. Other accomplishments:

. Hearbreak Train was selected as Country Album of the Year Vox Populi by Independent Music Awards sponsored by Musicians Atlas / Borders Music.

. ASCAP songwriting award in the popular / jazz music division.

. Semifinalist in the ISC International Songwriting Competition in the Americana Division for "A Good Woman's Hard To Find" - Ali claims to have written that song in fun response to Brad Paisley's Fishing Song, "I'm Gonna Miss Her".

. Great American Songwriting Contest - Honorable Mention Award for Heartbreak Train.

. We Are Listening Songwriting Contest - Honorable Mention Award for Heartrbreak Train.

Ali is a member of ASCAP, CMA, SPBGMA, IBMA & AMA as well as the SWFla Bluegrass Association.

Ali has been a performer since the age of 6. Growing up in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia, Ali credits much of her songwriting inspiration to the years she spent listening to bluegrass on the radio and the Gospel Jubilee on TV every Sunday morning -"nothin' like those gospel harmonies to get the juices flowin". That combined with years of formal music study have formed the dedicated musician that Ali is today. She has spent the past couple of years in Nashville recording her debut album Heartbreak Train and recently added her new band members to take it on the road.

. Check out her website on myspace/alishumate. Ali currently resides in West Palm Beach Florida with her husband and son.


Band:

Danny Kimmer - Banjo Mandolin - Danny has made a life and a living as a musician. Playing bluegrass for over 30 years and opening for the likes of the Country Gentlemen, Danny has had a career in music spanning many genres, but loves the banjo and bluegrass the best. His incredible speed and technique at banjo as well as mandolin make him an incredible addition to the band. He is definatley an entertainer.

Instrumentation

Ali Shumate - Lead vocals, songwriter, guitar, mandolin

Band:
featuring Danny Kimmer on Banjo, mandolin, guitar.

Other players included on upright bass, fiddle, guitar

Discography

Debut Album - Heartbreak Train - recorded at Chelsea Studios in Nashville, Tennessee - National street release 5/30/06, Platinum Plus Records, Distributed by Select-O-Hits nationally to brick and mortar stores and digital format.

Single - Heartbreak Train - current national release charted on Billboard Hot 100 Pop Single Sales and Country Single Sales Charts

Ali's music is receiving radio play on the WWB with Gracie, Uncle Billy, Bill Foster and others, and internationally on terrestrial bluegrass anc country stations in the US, Canada and Australia.

Ali has currently completed the material for the follow-up album with plans to record and distribute in 2007.

Official Website

http://www.myspace.com/alishumate

Audio

• Heartbreak Train
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• Travelin State of Mind
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• Winds They Are A Changin
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• Same Old Me, Different You
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Lyrics

• Heartbreak Train
• Travelin' State of Mind
• The Winds They Are A Changin'
• Same Old Me, Different You
• Waitin' On The Other Side
• Part Of The Plan

Video

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Press

• Local singer returns to her roots [+ Show ]
  

  One of the bright new stars of the modern bluegrass scene has a solid coalfield connection. Ali Shu...One of the bright new stars of the modern bluegrass scene has a solid coalfield connection. Ali Shumate's first CD, "Heartbreak Train," is moving up the Billboard charts like a bullet. In the week of June 24, the album climbed to No. 3 on "Country Single Sales," and to No. 42 in the "Hot 100 Single Sales" overall. In the week fo July 8, Shumate's album climbed a notch to No. 2 in Country Single Sales and stayed at No. 42 in the Hot 100...Shumate grew up in McDowell County and has singing roots that extend back into the 19th Century to the Honaker family that performed for silent movies and even played on the stage of the Pocahontas, Va., opera house...she studied classical piano, woodwinds and music theory and voice...through the process of refining and recording her sound that, while unique, shows the influences of Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Linda Ronstadt and others...Shumate's work on the album is outstanding and deomstrates a playful appreciation for life in songs like "Travelin' State of Mind," and "You'll be Sorrier when I'm Gone," as well as a powerful religious connection in "(How Will I Make It) God Knows." She has a satisfied quality in her songs that, while it differs from the pathos of so much music, still gives pause to reflective insights. The arrangements are flawless.

• At last year's Fan Fair, Ali Shumate's performance took my breath away! [+ Show ]
  

  Last year at the Gibson Bluegrass Theater in Nashville, I had the incredible priviledge of seeing Al...Last year at the Gibson Bluegrass Theater in Nashville, I had the incredible priviledge of seeing Ali Shumate perform on one of the great historic states in Nashville. She knocked'em out at Fan Fair last year...Ali Shumate brougnt the house down. She performed her entire album to the crowd of absolute die-hard bluegrass fans and they loved her. Stay tuned for more great authentic bluegrass from one of the most beautiful and precious artists you'll ever meet. She'll remind you of Dolly Parton, guaranteed!

Setlist

Set list contains originals and traditional covers.

Originals written by Ali:
Bluegrass, White Sand
Winds They Are A Changin
Baby of Mine
A Good Woman Is Hard To Find
Heartbreak Train
He's My Lovin' Man
Travelin' State of Mind
You'll Be Sorrier When I'm Gone
(How Will I Make It) God Knows
Comin' For My Baby Tonight
Same Old Me, Different You
Part Of The Plan
Blue, Blue, Blue Ridge Mountains
Gotta Find My Way Back Home
Standin' On That Rock (co-written)
Waitin' On The Other Side
Savior Devine
Let's Have It All
Take It To The Cross
Black and Blue - 12 Bar Blues Tune

Covers include:
Cold, Cold Heart
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
You've Got A Friend
Your Cheatin' Heart
Train, Train
Seven Bridges Road
Jolene
I'll Stay Around
Green Pastures
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Fox On The Run
Blue Moon Of Kentucky
Why Not Me
Landslide
Walkin' After Midnight
Crazy
I Fall To Pieces
Desperado
Who's Bed Have Your Boots Been Under
Soul Of Constant Sorrow
One Way Track
Long Black Veil
Bluegrass Gospel Medley - I'll Fly Away, Angel Band
Limehouse Blues
Remington Ride

We have a large repetoire to choose from with flavors of Blues, Folk, Traditional Country, Bluegrass and Americana .

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Billboard 7/8/06 charts

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