Coaltown Dixie is a classy, energetic all-female bluegrass band hailing from the Appalachian hills of East Kentucky.  The band formed in 2009, taking their name from Dixie Hatfield, manager of a coal camp boarding house and the great grandmother of the band’s bass player.  Thus far, the ladies of CtD have released three CD’s and a live performance DVD. Two of their original songs have been used as theme songs on Kentucky Educational Television's "Kentucky Health."  They have also written and performed a song for the television pilot “Southern Girl Outdoors.” Coaltown Dixie has been the recipient of a National Bluegrass B.O.R.N. (Bands On the Rise Nationally) Award, graced the cover of Music Entertainment magazine, been named Best Traditional Appalachian Music Band by Mountain Top Media’s Best in the Mountains Competition, and have been nominated 3 consecutive years by the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards as Best Bluegrass Band.

Coaltown Dixie has been honored with prominent television and radio appearances throughout the Southeast including KET’s “Jubilee” and “Tim Farmer’s Homemade Jam,” “The WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour,” WDVX Knoxville’s “Blue Plate Special,” “CMH 23” and two appearances on Red Barn Radio. Career highlights include packing the house at Suwanee, Georgia's Everett's Music Barn on a balmy summer night; numerous appearances at Dollywood’s Bluegrass and Barbecue Festival (it’s never easy to sing over that train!), The Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival and Dr. Ralph Stanley's Annual Memorial Weekend Festival; sharing the Mountain Arts Center stage with bluegrass superstars Ricky Skaggs, J.D. Crowe, The Boxcars and the Lonesome River Band; twice headlining the Rural Roots Concert Series at the Historic Sipp Theater and opening for Larry Sparks and country music stars Bucky Covington and Randy Houser.

As recipients of a Kentucky Foundation for Women "Artist Enrichment" grant in 2021, Coaltown Dixie members helped develop and host the first Mountain Grrl Experience event in Pikeville, Kentucky. This annual arts and music event celebrates the creativity and resilience of Appalachian women. Proceeds from the event benefit Eastern Kentucky women and children who are victims of homelessness or domestic abuse.

We write, play and sing our own brand of “high-heeled bluegrass.” Sometimes we wear overalls. Sometimes we wear sequins.  Usually in boots.