ETSU Bluegrass Band has played for the academically respected Sonneck Society in Nashville, and subsequently at the Moscow (Russia) Folk Arts Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, the Smithsonian Institution's National Folklife Festival (also in Washington), the IBMA awards show in Louisville, Kentucky (with Ricky Skaggs), NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and a variety of venues in Japan, including the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

Orient Express, a video documentary of the ETSU Bluegrass Band's initial Japan tour is the first commercially available DVD focusing on the bluegrass and country music scene in a foreign country.