Farm Hands
OAKLAND TWP — The nationally known bluegrass group Farm Hands Quartet will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at North Butler Presbyterian Church, 137 North Butler Church Road.
There is no admission charge, but an offering will be accepted. Refreshments will follow in the social hall.
Earlier this year, the quartet was nominated for 14 Bluegrass Music Awards including Band of the Year, Gospel Band of the Year and Entertainer of the Year.
The group is one of the busiest touring bands in bluegrass, performing more than 150 dates per year.
Farm Hands’ bass player is Daryl Mosley, who has written songs featured on “American Idol” and “True Hollywood Story.” His chart-topping songs include the southern gospel classic, “(Ask the Blind Man) He Saw It All.”
Prior to the Farm Hands, Mosley was the lead vocalist of the award-winning bluegrass gospel group, New Tradition, and later performed for more than a decade as part of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Mosley has been nominated this year for bluegrass music’s Male Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year.
Singing and playing the resophonic guitar, a kind of acoustic guitar whose sound is produced by metal cones instead of the wooden soundboard, is Grammy Award winner Tim Graves.
Graves has more than 30 years of professional music experience under his belt, including 20 years as part of the world famous Grand Ole Opry. He has toured extensively across the U.S. both as a sideman and with his own group. In addition to his 2014 nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year, he is the reigning Dobro Player of the Year in bluegrass music, a distinction he has held nine times and the last six years in a row.
On the acoustic guitar and singing is Jesse Turner, an Alabama native who is comfortable on guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and even piano and trumpet. Turner is a seasoned studio musician and has also spent time as the house musician at a television station.
On banjo and singing bass is Bennie Boling, who has been playing bluegrass music for more than 30 years.
Boling is a multi-instrumentalist, who is at home playing banjo, bass, guitar and several other instruments.
He is also a songwriter whose songs have been recorded by many major artists including The Oak Ridge Boys, Gene Watson, and Grand Ole Opry star Jeannie Seely. Boling is a 2014 nominee for Banjo Player of the Year.
