The Great High Mountain Tour 2004 performance was the highlight of the Texas Music Project's Community Music Celebration at Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall benefiting TMP and the Performing Arts Fort Worth's Children's Education Program. The Celebration raised $70,000 for music education and occurred on June 14 & 15, 2004 and included master classes with noted music educator, Dr. John Feierabend, and Tour performers, as well as a Community Music Celebration Luncheon on Tuesday featuring Dr. Feirerabend and T Bone Burnett.

The Texas Music Project and Bass Performance Hall proudly welcomed Alison Krauss + Union Station, Ralph Stanley, The Whites, The Cox Family, Norman and Nancy Blake and many more notable performers in T Bone Burnett's Great High Mountain Tour 2004. The evening featured music and artists from the multiple-award winning soundtracks of the hit films "O Brother, Where Art Thou" and "Cold Mountain." Premium tickets also included a special post-show meet & greet with the artists.

Also joining these great performers was Dirk Powell, Riley Baugus, Tim Eriksen, and Reeltime Travelers from the Oscar nominated "Cold Mountain" soundtrack, as well as Ollabelle (a sextet drawing inspiration from nineteenth and early-to-mid-twentieth century rural American music) and Sierra and Cody Hull. Sierra is a 12-year-old mandolin wizard who has performed on the "Grand Ole Opry" and PBS's "All-Star Bluegrass Celebration" and recently released her first independent release, Angel Mountain, with her brother Cody.

"The previous Down From The Mountain Tour was an extraordinary night of music," said Burnett, "and this show delves deeper into this exploration of traditional American music with the artists and songs from Cold Mountain. There is great freedom in this music and in these shows that allows for every evening to be unique."

The revue was a theatrical presentation with musicians coming on and off the stage to collaborate in different groups, creating many exciting possibilities. The evening will feature songs such as: "Man of Constant Sorrow" performed by Dan Tyminski (aka The Soggy Bottom Boys); "Keep on the Sunny Side" by The Whites; "You Are My Sunshine" by Norman and Nancy Blake from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"; "I Wish My Baby Was Born" by Eriksen, Baugus and Tim O'Brien; "Like A Songbird That Has Fallen" by the Reeltime Travelers; and "You Will Be My Ain True Love" and "The Scarlet Tide," by Krauss, both of which were nominated for an Academy Award. The finale will feature "I'm Going Home" and "Idumea," Sacred Harp songs from "Cold Mountain."

The Texas Music Project expresses its deepest appreciation to T Bone Burnett, Alison Krause, Paul Beard and Pat Schutts of Bass Hall, and our sponsors, Dell and XTO Energy.