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Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike featuring Becky Buller
"Valerie Smith and her amazing band are a breath of fresh air. Onstage, they present visually beautiful and exciting performances with exceptional musicality. Offstage, they are like family and best friends to everyone, always willing to share that which makes them so very special-their music, their hearts, and their souls."
- Gabrielle Gray, Executive Director International Bluegrass Music Museum, Promoter of ROMP.
"Valerie Smith has a storyteller's sensibility and timing and a singer's soulful vocals that leave her audience waiting to hear the next song."
- California Bluegrass Association, CBAontheweb.org
"Excellent stage act Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike are known for their lively and impressive concerts!"
- Erin Spurling, Maverick Magazine, England
"What a night! What a band! Valerie and her wonderful band played a stormer! We have enjoyed the very best of bluegrass before at Brookfield...or so we thought."
- Loudon Temple, Music Journalist and Scotland Promoter
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Becky Buller - Vocals/Fiddle/Clawhammer Banjo/Guitar/Songwriter
A multi-instrumentalist from St. James, Minn., Becky Buller now resides in the Nashville, Tenn.-area. She holds a degree in communication from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, where she was involved in the Bluegrass and Country Music Program. In 2000, she released "Rest My Weary Feet," a self-produced solo release for SRS Records. Becky was awarded first place in the bluegrass division of the 2001 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest in Wilksboro, N.C. Becky's songs have also been recorded by Rhonda Vincent; Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver; Mark Newton; David Parmley and Continental Divide; the Kenny and Amanda Smith Band; and, most recently, IIIrd Tyme Out. Her second album, "Little Bird," was release in October 2004 and is available fromBell Buckle Records. She proudly endorses D'Addario Strings and Nechville Banjos.
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Bobby Davis - Bass
Bobby Davis paid dearly for his first bass; in order to the raise the necessary money, he had to sell off his 4-H project that year--a pair of Brown Swiss dairy cows! This Wheatfield, Ind., native actually got his start on the mandolin and fiddle. He is a former member of Peter Nye & The Chicago Bluegrass Band and Audie Blaylock and Redline. Bobby and his bass are featured on the "Stelling Banjo Anthology" as well as "Grave Run," the new record from Patrick McAvinue.
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Chad Graves - Resophonic Guitar/Vocals
The ever-debonair Chad Graves comes to the group from Morrisville, Mo. Around the age of 12, Chad inherited a resophonic guitar from his Grandpa Dohle and was soon playing in local groups such as Ripplin' Waters, Waterloo Boy and Just in Tyme. He is a former member of Bluegrass trailblazers the Arkamo Rangers and is featured on their latest record "New Timey Thrill." Besides being a cracker jack picker, Chad is a great bass singer, pyrotechnics guru and excellent house painter. Chad proudly endorses Red Bear Trading Co.- Tortis Thumb Picks, and Rayco Resophonic Guitar.
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Eric Lambert - Guitar, Mandolin and Fiddle
Eric is a private guitar instructor in Illinois and will be playing the TV pilot and also touring with us in Maryland this month. We are so excited to play music with him and know that you will like him too!!
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