Red Wing presents the 4th annual Winter Roots Concert featuring The Steel Wheels and four-time GRAMMY-nominated artist, Emily King. The Steel Wheels have spent 20 years crafting their own distinct style of American roots music. After two decades of making music together, The Steel Wheels are still growing, still pushing, still at it, and they’re marking the occasion with the release of their 9th studio album, The Steel Wheels. Emily King is a cross-genre artist collaborating with an array of acclaimed contemporaries, including Robert Glasper, Sara Bareilles, Brittany Howard, Lukas Nelson, and Jon Batiste, to name a few.

Wanchi's CDs have been excellently reviewed (“her incisive technique and an exceptionally rich and beautiful tone...”by Phil's Classical Reviews, Audio Video Club of Atlanta.) Miyamoto has enjoyed an acclaimed international career winning top honors from the American Pianists Association and National Chopin Piano Competition.

Monticello Strings is a string chamber group of faculty and student string majors consisting of James Madison University professors Wanchi (violin), Diane Phoenix-Neal (viola), Aiveen Gallagher (violin), Carl Donakowski (cello), and JMU School of Music students.