This expert guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and bouzouki player is described as “chameleon-like” for his ability to seamlessly shift from one genre to another.

• As a young boy, Tim O’Brien’s interest in flat-picking and Appalachian music piqued after watching bluegrass artist Doc Watson on television.
• In 1978 O’Brien and fellow musician Pete Wernick formed Hot Rize, a progressive bluegrass band that developed a large following at music festivals throughout the country.
• Fiddler’s Green (2005), a collection of traditional Irish music performed by O’Brien, won the award for the Best Traditional Folk Album at the GRAMMY Awards in 2006.
• O’Brien’s most recent album, 2010’s Chicken and Egg, reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Bluegrass chart.
• Adored for his uplifting and earnest bluegrass songs, banjo balladeer and singer/songwriter Old Man Luedecke, is a two-time winner of Canada’s premiere music honor, the Juno Award.