Arizona Bluegrass Association

2025 Band Lineup

Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band

Widely recognized as one of the most exciting young bands in acoustic music, Crying Uncle Bluegrass plays a unique mix of bluegrass, Dawg (David Grisman music), jazz, and modern originals. Brothers Miles and Teo Quale are joined by bassist Andrew Osborn and 2023 National Flat Pick Guitar Champion Ian Ly, all outstanding young musicians of the vibrant California bluegrass scene. Founded in 2016 as a Duo band, Miles and Teo formed the bluegrass band in 2017 and since then, they have continued to make waves in the world of bluegrass and acoustic music. The bluegrass band was the recipient of the 2023 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Momentum Band of the Year award. The band was also honored to perform for the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame’s induction of their hero, David Grisman.

Edgar Loudermilk Band

Edgar Loudermilk, a two-time back-to-back SPBGMA “Bass Fiddle Performer of the Year” Award winner, is the proud bandleader of the Edgar Loudermilk Band. The Pinecastle Recording artist has garnered over 40 industry nominations and awards. Among contemporary lead bluegrass singers, Edgar Loudermilk has one of the most distinctive, recognizable, and enjoyable voices in the business. His crisp baritone lead is powerful, cutting, and expressively tuneful. As with Russell Johnson and Junior Sisk, similarly strident voices, you can always find him in the mix and always want to." --Bluegrass Unlimited

Cross Eyed Possum

The Cross-Eyed Possum is an identical twin led Americana/Newgrass band that plays with the energy of a folk-rock band through the lens of intimacy created as an acoustic trio. Their music is an amalgamation of their collective love for passionate rock ‘n’ roll, their experience with the free and honest feeling found in acoustic/bluegrass festivals, and their time spent dedicated to the adventurous tendencies of jazz and classical music composition while attending universities. The band is currently celebrating their second studio album “Out On My Own.”

The Honey Buckets

Honey Buckets, Southern California single-mic bluegrass band raised on heavy metal and smog. Out of the bluegrass heartland Inland Empire, California come four pickers raised on heavy metal and smog. Single-mic, heart-pounding, ass-kicking bluegrass music played the way they like it since 2014. These fan favorites bring it every time whether on stage or the late night jams at the Honey Bucket camp.

Ten Dollar Wedding

Arizona's newest bluegrass band. Bringing a mix of bluegrass, country, folk and whatever is needed for a good time and great show. Recent winners of the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown band contest. You can catch these guys all over Arizona. Always a great show!

North of Lonesome

North of Lonesome is an Arizona-based bluegrass band with deep roots in traditional bluegrass music. The North of Lonesome band is also known to veer off into grassed-up soft rock and blues, to the edge of folk and old-time music – but always with that bluegrass vibe.You’ll find yourself humming and swaying to the growing list of songs they’ve written for themselves. So wax up your mustache, grab your sweetie, and be ready to dance.

The Arizona Wildflowers

The Arizona Wildflowers are no strangers to the Arizona bluegrass scene. They have been playing since early childhood. Winners of multiple contests and fan favorites in the Arizona and US

No Gig Girl Band

The Notorious No-Gig Girl Band formed when four friends who had met at the Desert Bluegrass Association workshops decided to break COVID quarantine and jam outdoors in a city park. Spaced well apart from each other, the group played and sang for the pure joy of being together and making music. Playing every week in (nearly) all weather, they developed a following among park visitors, and were especially popular with the under-4 set.

JAM PAK

In 1994, Anni Beach serving as a substitute teacher in Chandler, Arizona, took her mandolin and new-found passion for bluegrass music to every classroom in which she taught. Following a day of teaching at Galveston Elementary a block from her home, two little boys knocked on her door asking if she would play and sing some more with them. She wanted to do something good for her bread and butter, immigrant- filled neighborhood and with the support of her husband Vincent, Jam Pak was born the very next week with six little kids in the front yard.

No bluegrass festival is complete without Anni and Jam Pak!

PO Box 51783

Mesa AZ 85208