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Welcome
Lisa Kay has been tooling around the bluegrass scene playing with an impressive string of regional bands since she took up the mandolin almost twenty years ago. This year she finally decided to front her own group. Lisa Kay attacks the mandolin mostly in the traditional way, a la Roland White or Country Gentlemen-era Jimmy Gaudreau. She sings impeccable harmony and contributes pure, emotion-filled lead vocals.
Based out of Warrenton, VA, she uses two main configurations of guys--first, Lisa Kay & The Reunion Bluegrass Band, featuring Keith Galle, from Glenside, PA, on banjo and vocals, Bob McConchie of Woodstock, VA, on guitar and vocals, Rob Hopkins of Warren, Maine, on dobro and vocals, and Mike Kiley of south Georgia on bass and vocals. The band has known each other from the festival scene for over 15 years and always felt a musical kinship. Last year they decided to make it official and have now gigged all
over the eastern US. An album and video are in the works.
And second, The Lisa Kay Band features folks from Lisa Kay's hometown area, DC and environs. Doug McKelway, news anchor for a DC-based TV station, is a clean, crisp, and imaginative banjo stylist. He also contributes his smooth baritone harmonies to the vocals. Kentucky native John Seebach is a fantastic young guitarist (not to mention mandolinist) who has a unique and beautiful approach to the instrument. He can sing higher than Lisa Kay, too. Fiddler Tom Lyons frequently plays with the band, too--his sweet,
exciting playing adds a whole other dimension to the Lisa Kay Band sound. The legendary bass player Tom Gray (Seldom Scene, Country Gentlemen) often guest stars with the band, adding his perfectly placed bass notes to the sound.
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