2026 LINEUP

Brent Mason is one of the most recorded guitarists in history. He is a Grammy Award winner, a 14 time winner of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Guitarist of the Year Award, and a 2 time winner of the CMA Award Musician of the Year. He has been named as one of the top ten session guitarists in the world, joining the ranks of Jimmy Page, Larry Carlton, Tommy Tedesco and Steve Cropper.  In October 2019 he was inducted into the Musician’s Hall of Fame and in May 2023 was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame Nashville Cats. Brent has played on well over a thousand albums and continues to add to this extensive resume. He has also released two of his own albums, produced a number of artists, and holds several credits as a songwriter.

In 2020 Fender released the Brent Mason signature telecaster...one of Fender’s best selling guitars.  A new Wampler pedal in the works is scheduled to be released in 2024 and in addition to his busy recording schedule, he also gives personal lessons via Skype to players all over the world. "  

There are a lot of musical influences and sources that Daniel Donato has drawn on during his career and that inform Reflector (Retrace Music), the Nashville guitarist-singer-songwriter-band leader's first all-original album. But within those Donato has carved out a unique and individualized spot for himself, one that speaks to the deep American music heritage that inspires him -- and that he's pushing towards the future with inspired, intentional vigor. 

He calls it Cosmic Country, a moniker that's both self-descriptive and a statement of purpose. It's an organic rock band aesthetic with plenty of roadhouse twang, a showcase for Donato's instrumental virtuosity and facility for melodically infectious songcraft. Bridging Nashville and the Great West, Kentucky and mid-60s northern California, tie-dye and plaid, it's a world of his own, and wide world of musical adventure at that. 

Redd Volkaert originally from Canada, is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in the modern era and is "among the country’s top Telecaster guitar slingers” particularly in the genres of Western Swing and Honky Tonk. Redd has was brought up playing with the notable; Garth Hudson, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones to name a few.

Johnny Hiland has been named in “Best of” lists in the guitar world including being named one of the “Top 5 Best Chicken Pickers” by Gibson.com, one of the “50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time” by Guitar World Magazine and, most recently, named one of the “Top 3 Country Guitarists” in the 2017 Vintage Guitar Magazine Readers Poll.

Johnny has played on records for artists such as Ricky Skaggs, Toby Keith, Hank III, Trick Pony, Randy Travis, and many others. He has performed on stage with artists such as Steve Vai, G3, Les Paul, Joe Bonamassa, George Clinton and P-Funk, Hank Williams III, and many others.

Larry Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist who has been a studio musician, recording music with other artists on their albums, and a respected sideman, performing as a backup musician in clubs and concert venues, since the seventies. He moves freely between rock, blues, country, folk and Celtic, playing guitar, fiddle, mandolin, pedal steel, cittern, dobro and banjo. In 2005, he released his first solo acoustic guitar album called Rooftops.

One of the most in demand blues / rock guitarists in the world is a mysterious character who goes by the name of G.E. Smith. Millions of TV viewers know his face-and the shock of unruly blond ponytail that was always falling across it-from his tenure stint of fronting the Saturday Night Live Band.

Duke Levine is a highly respected guitarist, producer, and composer whose career spans decades of touring, recording, and scoring across genres. He has toured with and collaborated alongside iconic artists including Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Aimee Mann, Peter Wolf, Rosanne Cash, and members of the J. Geils Band, while also appearing with ensembles such as the Boston Pops, Club d’Elf, and countless roots, folk, and rock luminaries. Levine’s guitar work can be heard on an extensive discography featuring artists from Otis Rush and Robbie Fulks to Lucy Kaplansky and Lee Ann Womack, and his compositions have been featured in major film and television projects including Lone Star, Passion Fish, Rescue Me, and The American Experience. A frequent presence on national television stages and soundtracks alike, Duke Levine is known for his expressive musicianship, deep musical versatility, and enduring impact on American roots and popular music.

Upon tallying how many decades he’s worked as a professional guitar slinger, Telecaster master Bill Kirchen quips, “Well, they don't make 50 years like they used to.” They don’t often make careers like his, either.

From performing with his Who Knows Pickers jug band in Ann Arbor High School’s senior talent show (also on the program: the future Iggy Pop), to birthing the Americana genre with the original “hippie country band,” Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, this affable Austinite has been everywhere, man, flying alongside some of the planet’s coolest cats — including the Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe, and Lowe’s old protégé, Elvis Costello.

The depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet. She hits the stage with an unmatched presence, a true legend in her time.

She’d grown up the child of a singer in a band and began playing her mother’s vintage Martin guitar when other girls were dressing dolls. She’d gone from being the teenage toast of her hometown Houston to sleeping in her van in Austin amid heaps of critical acclaim for excellent recordings.

Cindy Cashdollar grew up in Woodstock, New York. The whole musical community watched as Cindy’s talent swiftly grew on the Dobro and then lap steel as she played with everyone in town during the late 1970s and ‘80s, The demand for her musical touch led her to touring and performing regionally with local Woodstock luminaries Levon Helm, Rick Danko, bluegrass singer John Herald, blues legend Paul Butterfield, and folk heroes Happy & Artie Traum.

Jim Weider (guitar, mandolin & vocals) is a former member of The Band. From 1985 to 2000, Weider replaced Robbie Robertson as their lead guitarist, writing songs and performing on their three studio albums, Jericho, High on the Hog, and Jubilation. He toured internationally with original Band members Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Rick Danko for fifteen years and was featured with them on numerous albums, films, videos, and in television appearances.

Washington D.C. born, Joel Harrison grew up on the Mason Dixon line absorbing music from the south, north, east, and west. One of his primary influences was hometown icon Danny Gatton who Harrison, as he puts it, “followed around like a stray dog.” Gatton modelled Harrison’s lifelong journey towards finding unity between jazz, country, rock n’ roll, blues, and much else on the guitar. Now Brooklyn-based and always evolving, Joel is an award-winning composer, an author, producer, and an educator. He is the founder of the Alternative Guitar Summit, a yearly gathering of some of the greatest improvisers on earth. Harrison was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, and he’s made 25 CDs as a band leader.

The New York Times succinctly described him as “protean…brilliant.”