Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper

Fiddle fans will not be disappointed when this band takes the stage. Michael Cleveland just won his fifth fiddle player of the year at the 2007 IBMA awards. And the band won Instrumental band of the year. Michael started fiddling at four and was a member of the Bluegrass Youth Allstars at the 1993 IBMA awards. Michael has toured at a young age with Dale Ann Bradley ( current bandmate Jesse Brock also was in Dale Anns band at that time) and then Rhonda Vincent. Jesse Brock on Mandolin also played with Dale Ann and toured with The Lynn Morris Band. Todd Rakestraw has written some great tunes including Gentle River that Alison Krauss recorded on her first album. John Batchelor is self taught banjo player who has been playing for about 5 years. And those of you that have been to Wintergrass before will have seen Marshall Wilborn here before with The Johnson Mountain Boys, The Lynn Morris Band, and Longview.

Michael Cleveland-fiddle, Jesse Brock-mandolin, Todd Rakestraw- guitar, John Mark Batchelor-banjo, Marshall Wilborn-bass