Helper’s Mining and Railroad Museum is excited to be hosting an event called the Bluegrass Rambler on Saturday, May 22 from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the museum and at The Rio Theatre. Castle Country Radio was able to sit down with Terry Rose a member of the band called Rail Jumpers who will be performing at the Rio Theatre at 6:00 pm.

“We’re going to have three hours of good Bluegrass Music, hobo songs and train songs and enjoy ourselves,” said Rose. “We’ve played Evanston Bluegrass Festival a couple of times. We’ve played all up and down the Wasatch front, we’ve played St. George down there, and so we’ve played quite a few gigs over the past six or eight years, we’ve been together eight years.” Rose was raised in West Virginia and is a long-time resident of Utah. He loves the traditional sound of Bluegrass and has a deep-rooted style in progressive bluegrass music. His rhythm guitar is solid and clear as his singing of the old and new brings an authentic sound to the band.

The band is made up of five members including Rose and they perform together at least three times a month. “We have Larry Swift on the mandolin, and then we have Mark Anger a tremendous banjo picker, and on the stand-up bass we have Jana Lauer, she’s played around town here with Mark, and then we have Anastasia Lund a young lady that plays the fiddle,” explained Rose. The group will feature original songs and old-time favorites and the audience is sure to have a great time.

“We’re going to play two sets an hour and 15 minutes each with a half-hour break in between so we can get something to drink and people can get some food or whatever. We’re really looking forward to it. We have a lot of train songs, we play everything from Merle Haggard to Bill Monroe,” said Rose. The cost to attend the event is a $10.00 donation which goes towards Helper’s Mining and Railroad Museum.

For more information on the Bluegrass Rambler event visit Helper’s Mining and Railroad Museum Facebook page or call the museum at (435) 472-3009.