# ‘One Night on Sugar Hill’ Concert to Honor Sugar Hill Records’ Barry Poss: ‘We All Owe Him Our Careers’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/one-night-on-sugar-hill-concert-to-honor-sugar-hill-records-barry-poss-we-all-owe-him-our-careers/
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:45:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T17:57:53+00:00
- Original publisher: Billboard
- Original article: https://www.billboard.com/music/country/one-night-on-sugar-hill-concert-honor-label-barry-poss-1236374748/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- A Durham concert will celebrate Barry Poss and Sugar Hill Records.
- Jerry Douglas brought together artists shaped by Poss’s work.
- Sugar Hill won five Grammys for best bluegrass album under Poss.

## Summary

A concert on 5 November in Durham, North Carolina, will honour Barry Poss, the late co-founder and longtime owner of Sugar Hill Records. Organised by Jerry Douglas, the event brings together artists whose careers Poss helped shape and gives some who could not say goodbye a chance to pay tribute.

Poss formed Sugar Hill Records with Dave Freeman in 1978 and took full control in 1980, building the label into a major force in bluegrass, roots and Americana. Its artists included Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Nickel Creek, Doc Watson and Dolly Parton; under Poss, the label won five Grammy Awards for best bluegrass album. Poss, who died aged 79 in May 2025, was recently inducted posthumously into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.

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