Fiddler Jason Carter books Wild Yarrow Brewing for Jan 14

After 33 years in the Del McCoury Band, the Grammy-winning fiddler brings his own band to Greenville on Thursday, Jan 14, 2027.

For more than three decades, if you saw the Del McCoury Band, you saw Jason Carter on fiddle. Now he’s out front. On Thursday, Jan 14, 2027, Carter plays Wild Yarrow Brewing in Greenville, with the show starting at 7 p.m. The date was announced Oct 23, and tickets are through Wild Yarrow’s events page.

The headline here is the career change behind the booking. In February 2025, Carter announced he was leaving both the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin’ McCourys after a 33-year run, to focus on his solo career as the Jason Carter Band, as Bluegrass Today and Grateful Web reported at the time. Saving Country Music put it simply: “This Is Big.” Few sidemen in bluegrass have been as closely tied to one band for as long.

For more than three decades, if you saw the Del McCoury Band, you saw Jason Carter on fiddle.

His résumé explains why. Carter picked up the fiddle at 16 after hearing Del McCoury for the first time, according to his Wikipedia entry), and went on to win IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year multiple times and three Grammy awards. That’s the kind of record that makes a solo run worth watching, and the Jason Carter Band has been building one through 2026, with dates from Indianapolis in June to Jacksonville Beach in late November, and a Lucketts Bluegrass show in Virginia in mid-January 2027, right around the Greenville date.

That puts Greenville on the map for anyone in the Upstate who followed Carter through his McCoury years and wants to hear what he does with his own band. A winter Thursday in a brewery is a very different setting from a festival main stage, and that is the appeal: you get to hear one of the best fiddlers in bluegrass up close.

Carter’s usual headline room on this run is around 325 capacity, which gives a sense of the scale: a crowd that knows the music, in a space where you can hear every note of a fiddle break. Bluegrass works best in rooms like that.

When to get tickets: now is a good time. The show is two and a half months out, but the date was announced Oct 23, and fans of the McCoury catalog tend to move quickly on a chance to see Carter on his own. Tickets are through Wild Yarrow.

Thirty-three years as one of the best sidemen in the music, and now a chance to see what he does with the spotlight. Greenville gets that chance on a Thursday night in January.

Sources: Jason Carter leaves Del McCoury and Travelin’ McCourys to focus on solo career (Bluegrass Today) (bluegrasstoday.com); Jason Carter Places Focus on Solo Career after 33-Year Tenure with The Del McCoury Band (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); This Is Big: Jason Carter Leaves the Del McCoury Band (Saving Country Music) (savingcountrymusic.com); Jason Carter (fiddler) (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Jason Carter, Indianapolis, June 14, 2026 (Forty5) (forty5.com); Jason Carter, November 25, 2026 (OpenDate) (app.opendate.io); Jason Carter Band (Lucketts Bluegrass) (luckettsbluegrass.org); Wild Yarrow Brewing events (wildyarrowbrewing.com)