From the tender age of three, Ronnie Bowman has been performing music. Starting in a family band playing churches in North Carolina and Virginia, he eventually joined the acclaimed Bluegrass band The Lost & Found. Shortly after Ronnie joined The Lonesome River Band, and became a participant in the band’s recording of “Carrying the Tradition”; […]
Growing up in Eastern Kentucky, Don Rigsby discovered bluegrass music early on. At age 5, Don learned to sing from a 1959 tape of Ralph Stanley singing “Hills of Home” and “Little Maggie.” Later, Don befriended two of Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys: Ricky Skaggs (Don’s cousin) and Keith Whitley. He learned guitar at age […]
Kenny Smith is originally from Nine Mile, Indiana. His father and grandfather played fiddle, and he started playing guitar at age 4. He learned to play fiddle tunes on the guitar by listening to Norman Blake’s albums. Kenny began playing professionally with Claire Lynch and the Front Porch Stringband in 1993. In 1996, he joined […]
Brian Fesler started playing banjo in grade school and soon formed a band in Iowa with his sister and cousin. After running the gamut of family band through regional bands in his home state of Iowa, he was off to Nashville where he soon found himself an endorsing artist for the Gibson Guitar Company. Then […]