 AppalachianWireless.com is here to make your life easier, sign in or create a self-care account to pay bills, view usage or check contract dates. You can also apply for paperless billing and auto-pay to save up to $5 per phone per month on post-paid plans. It's self-care from Appalachian Wireless. Floyd County native Josh Martin is coming back home and bringing his star-studded band to perform at the Melanart Center. Wood Box Heroes is kind of a conglomeration of 15 years worth of working in Nashville and the music industry and meeting all these wonderful heroic bandmates of mine. We started touring up in Michigan a couple years ago, like right after COVID, and kind of we played a week's worth of shows and by the end of the week, we was looking at each other like, is this a band? Yeah, sure enough, a year later we were all together and doing this thing. Martin grew up in a small town in Floyd County, nested in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. We usually, every time I've came in the past back home, we've went to Floyd Central and done a little show and this time we didn't have that opportunity to really touch base with the kids of the area and this time we're getting 50% off for current Floyd County high school students and well students across the board. Floyd County students, you get 50% off and that's just kind of paying back where I came from and how much the Mac and how much getting to see a show like this really meant to me when I was in those shoes and like I said, I just hope to inspire some of these kids. In 2007, Martin graduated from the former Allen Central High School. Gosh, I would have never dreamed that I would have been 15 years removed and standing on stage with these guys that I'm getting to play music with and that's one of the most incredible like pinch me moments that I've had is you know, yeah, I thought I could do this by myself and writing songs and singing and going and playing but I would have never dreamed to be forming a band of this nature. The band brings together some of the world's most highly-lauded musicians. Wood Box Heroes, like we've got Janaye Fleener, four-time CMA musician of the year, toured with everybody under the sun, played on everybody's records and same with Barry Bales, you know, he used to be in Allison Krauss and Union Station and it really gets all the calls for you know, upright bass and you know, Matt Menafee, same way. The dude's on tour with Mumford and Sons this coming summer and I mean he's played on pitbull tracks, like how cool is that and Seth Taylor, he's truly like, he's my hero, you know, he's playing mandolin for us but he's one of the greatest guitarists that ever picked up the instrument. Their fresh new sound will be sure to redefine your definition of a bluegrass show. Yes, so tickets are on sale right now. You can get them on MacArts.com or call in the ticket office down there. I think it's 606-888-MAC-ARTS and yeah, just y'all come out April 8th, 730. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Ethan Miller.