Featured performers include Dave Matthews and Emmylou Harris, along with special guests Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Patty Loveless, Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss, Big Kenny and more.

On May 19th at 8:00 pm Hoss hands the show over to a star-studded line-up behind the STAGE at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium concert, presented by the Natural Resources Defense Council. This will be the biggest gathering ever of music stars coming together to raise awareness about mountaintop removal coal mining, which is devastating Appalachia.

Hoss’s single entitled “Dirt Road” (written by the Howard’s) will be released during Music Saves Mountains campaign, where Hoss will open the show for an hour long live WORLDWIDE INTERNET BROADCAST from “The STAGE” on Broadway at 7:00 PM Wednesday the 19th of May 2010. “It is such an honor to play for world over the Internet for this great and personal cause” says Hoss. Hoss Howard lives in the Appalachian Mountains in Cherokee, NC. Hoss and his family are proud residents of the Cherokee Indian Reservation, a must visit if your wanting to see true natural beauty of the mountains, The Eastern Band of the Cherokee’s arts, crafts, culture and home, and scenic Western North Carolina.