Charlie Rose

Banjo, Guitar, Pedal Steel, etc.

Charlie Rose is a highly respected and accomplished musician, producer, and songwriter with a career spanning over two decades. Born and raised in eastern Kansas, Charlie's passion for music began as a student of voice, piano, trombone, and guitar. He quickly added bass, mandolin, and banjo to his repertoire, and after completing his science degree, he made the decision to pursue a career in music.

Charlie's extensive experience playing with many artists and bands on various instruments, including pedal steel, banjo, guitar, horns, percussion, strings, bass, and keys, has earned him a reputation as a highly versatile musician. He has worked with a diverse range of artists, from Elephant Revival and Asylum Street Spankers to Sarah Lee Guthrie, Johnny Irion, Johnathan Edwards, The Crooked Jades, Mike Merenda, Ruthy Unger, The Mammals, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Bob Ezrin, Andy Cabic, Jocie Adams, Mark Erelli, Emma Rose, Amy Helm, Wayne Gottstine, Colin Mahoney, Kirk Rundstrom, Danny Barnes, Peter Rowan, Julian Lage, Kimber Ludiker, Gina Leslie, Ric Robertson, Cactus Pals, Andy Reiner, Joy Adams, Eric Thorin, Della Mae, KC Groves, Uncle Earl, Zachariah Hickman, Barnstar!, Jake Armerding, Vince Herman, Jeff Tweedy, Lindsay Lou, Pat Sansone, Bruce Kaphan, Sam Kassirer, Rose Cousins, Rose Polenzani, Rose Sinclair, Taylor Armerding, John Mailander, Dinty Child, Dango Rose, Bonnie Paine, Lyle Brewer, Zack Jackson, Jacob Silver, Conrad Meisner, Molly Tuttle, Bridget Law, Darren Garvey, Darol Anger, Neal Casal, Daniel Rodriguez, and many more amazingly talented producers and musicians.

In addition to his instrumental prowess, Charlie is a prolific songwriter and producing recording engineer with his own studio in Lyons, CO. He has released an album of original songs, Stowaways, and is in the process of making an album of songs inspired by the poetry of his great-grandfather, Will Ferrell. With his talent, versatility, and passion for music, Charlie continues to be an active and integral part of the music he participates in, both as a performer and behind-the-scenes.

Andy Reiner

Fiddle, Mandolin

Andy Reiner, an award-winning fiddler, singer, actor and composer, began playing at age five with the Reiner Family Band. He has since developed his own style featuring creative, rhythmic melodies and thoughtful fusing of world styles. Earning a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston, launched Andy into a flurry of touring and teaching around the globe. This included Heavy Metal with Devil in the Kitchen, Folk/Hip-Hop with FiddleFoxx, Swedish/Appalachian with Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers, Electronic/Celtic with Firecloud, and Bluegrass with The Earth Stringband, which toured Southeast Asia on the 2011 American Music Abroad tour for the US Department of State. Andy tours both as a solo artist and with groups Half Pelican featured in the soundtrack to the Netflix series Godless and The Queen's Gambit, as well as performing with Darol Anger and the Furies and Whitewater Ramble. He is also the producer and host of the "River of Suck" podcast, interviewing musicians, scientists and more. Andy Reiner is an official Yamaha Performing Artist and a Codabow Ambassador.

Andy's compositions for string orchestra have been performed by the Berklee World Strings at the Kennedy Center, the Berklee Performance Center, and national ASTA conventions. Three of his original pieces have been published by national music publishers - "Alpine Valley" and "Loonacy" on Wingert-Jones, and "Blue Sky Basin" on Grand Mesa Music. His tune "The Dissent" was the 2017 winner of the NeASTA Fiddle Tune Contest. Andy teaches students and leads teacher training in fiddle styles, improvisation, composition and rhythm fiddling at universities, public schools, privately, and at music camps across the US.

Many of Andy's string orchestra works, fiddle tunes and songs are influenced by mountains and nature. He is also known as the "Skiing Fiddler." Andy skis every month of the year and has skied while playing the fiddle top to bottom on double black diamond runs at Silverton, CO and Mt. Baker, WA. He enjoys playing his fiddle on 14,000 foot high mountain summits with his wife and musical partner, cellist Dr. Joy Adams, of Half Pelican.

Eric Thorin

Upright Bass, Guitar

Eric Thorin is a highly regarded musician/bassist living on the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.  Found on stage in 2022 in The Matt Flinner Trio with Ross Martin, on the road and on a new release from the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, Bonnie Paine, Tony Furtado and more.  Owner of Ethoriole Music, Eric was honored to be included on Grammy nominated recording Man On Fire by Danny Barnes.

Eric remains active in the studio as producer and performer, has written hundreds of compositions as a member of The Matt Flinner Trio, orchestrated songs for Elephant Revival with the Colorado Symphony and Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and mixed, mastered and produced the debut recording release of Take Down the Door, Live in Lyons.  

Teaching is a big part of his presence in 2022 including the Spanish Peaks Celtic Festival and serving as adjunct faculty in the Folk and Bluegrass program at the University of Northern Colorado.

Joy Adams

Cello, Banjo

Multi-genre cellist Dr. Joy Adams grew up on a farm north of Spokane, Washington. Equally at home improvising over fiddle tunes or playing a concerto with orchestra, she is also a composer, songwriter, educator, and a prolific recording artist. Recent career highlights include touring with Nathaniel Rateliff, Darol Anger, performing on NPR’s Live From Here with Chris Thile, the Newport Folk Festival, Red Rocks, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, performing at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival with Bonnie Paine (of Elephant Revival), recording cello for the Emmy award winning soundtrack to Godless on Netflix, as well as on the Grammy and Emmy award winning soundtrack to The Queen's Gambit, the Grammy-nominated jazz album With Love by Jeremy Fox, and the recent albums Red Rocks 2020 (Nathaniel Rateliff), Live From the Swamp (Half Pelican), and This Long Stretch of Gravel (John Lowell).

Joy collects hats, both literally and musically, and has performed with Bruce Hornsby, Barry Manilow, Bobby McFerrin, Chic Corea, Kenny Loggins, Ben Folds, Gloria Estefan, George Benson, Terrence Blanchard, Dave Grusin, Edgar Meyer, Darol Anger, Joshua Bell, Renee Flemming, Kevin Morby, Ley Line, Katy Crutchfield (Waxahatchee), Take 6, Hillsong United, Jonsi & Alex (Sigur Ros), Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, the Travelin’ McCourys, Ayla Nereo, Estelle, Jayme Stone, Mark O’Connor, Billy Strings, Sam Bush, Maria Schneider, Dawn Upshaw, and Cyrille Aimee, among others.

As a big fan of anything you can do in your pajamas, Joy is naturally at home in the recording studio, and is a sought-after session musician. She has recorded for Pharrell, George Benson, Gloria Estefan, Chic Corea, Nathaniel Rateliff, Terrence Blanchard, Desmond Child, Bobby McFerrin, Chris Boardman, Carlos Rivera, Mark O’Connor, Darol Anger, the Podd Brothers, and a growing list of singer-songwriters, electronic producers, film composers, video game scores, commercials, and sample libraries. Her abilities as an improviser and arranger combined with her professional remote recording studio make Joy an easy collaborator for any recording project.

She has made over a dozen concerto appearances with orchestras including the Spokane Symphony, and spent time as a professional baroque cellist, in an opera pit, and as a touring chamber musician, but has steadily slipped into the black hole of the bluegrass world. For two years, Joy toured as a member of Darol Anger and the Furies, and now performs with the all-female super group Big Richard, with the Jayme Stone band, and plays electric cello in the metal bluegrass band Half Pelican. A glutton for punishment, Joy is attempting to play all 36 movements of the Bach Cello Suites on top of 36 “14ers” (mountains over 14,000 feet tall). She has completed 6 so far.

She owes everything to her teachers: Kevin Hekmatpanah, Steven Doane, and Ross Harbaugh. After graduating from both the Eastman School of Music and the University of Miami, she finally completed her Doctorate in music in 2016, with a dissertation on the history and evolution of the cello in American fiddle music. Known by her students as "Dr. Meow," she has taught music theory and composition at Naropa University in Boulder, songwriting for the Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music program at the University of Miami, and given guest lectures at Eastman, the University of Montana (Bozeman), the University of Colorado (Boulder), the University of Miami. She has previously taught at the Community Arts Program in Miami, as well as at Denver School of the Arts. She has been on the faculty of dozens of fiddle camps from Berklee College of Music to Sandpoint, Idaho, and has taught workshops around the country.

Joy makes her home on a dirt road in the mountains above Denver, Colorado, with her husband, fiddler Andy Reiner, and their two cats, Capo and Viola. She’s obsessed with skiing, and in her spare time, she enjoys eating pie and climbing on things.