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Back for a second year after a delightful Sunday morning set in 2021:

Scott Rogers (Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin) and Shane Osguthorpe (Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Dobro, Harmonica) came together to form the Ogden-based band in 2016. Carrie Myers (Vocals, Ukelele, and lead banana player) makes it a trio. They play traditional bluegrass instruments in very non-traditional ways. They play it how they feel it. Right or wrong, that's The Proper Way. 

Scott: Born and raised in Tupelo, MS, in a family of musicians, Scott was a part of the vibrant south Mississippi 1990s music scene centered around Hattiesburg, MS.  His influences include 70s singer-songwriters, 80s pop music, Americana, and classic rock. Scott always thought a '72 Ford Bronco would have been way cooler than his dad's 1977 Chevy Vega.

Shane: Born and raised in Park City, UT.  He plodded his way through piano lessons where he plunked out Mozart and Chopin before he realized he could use the same instrument to play the classic country, Janis Joplin, Stones, Billy Joel and Elton John tunes that blared from the 8-track tape player in his dad's '72 Ford Bronco. Shane always thought it would have been cool to be from a town like Tupelo, MS.

Carrie: Born and raised in Syracuse, UT as an only child—and her sisters are pretty upset about that. Never had a music lesson because she could play from the time she could walk. Musical influences include fury, silence, and NPR. Single, highly employable, lover of puns, and just grateful to be playing music with her friends. Likes to remind Scott and Shane that it's fine. Right? 

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Scott Rogers (Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin) and Shane Osguthorpe (Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Dobro, Harmonica) came together to form the Ogden-based band in 2016. Carrie Myers (Vocals, Ukelele, and lead banana player) makes it a trio. They play traditional bluegrass instruments in very non-traditional ways. They play it how they feel it. Right or wrong, that's The Proper Way. 

Scott: Born and raised in Tupelo, MS, in a family of musicians, Scott was a part of the vibrant south Mississippi 1990s music scene centered around Hattiesburg, MS.  His influences include 70s singer-songwriters, 80s pop music, Americana, and classic rock. Scott always thought a '72 Ford Bronco would have been way cooler than his dad's 1977 Chevy Vega.

Shane: Born and raised in Park City, UT.  He plodded his way through piano lessons where he plunked out Mozart and Chopin before he realized he could use the same instrument to play the classic country, Janis Joplin, Stones, Billy Joel and Elton John tunes that blared from the 8-track tape player in his dad's '72 Ford Bronco. Shane always thought it would have been cool to be from a town like Tupelo, MS.

Carrie: Born and raised in Syracuse, UT as an only child—and her sisters are pretty upset about that. Never had a music lesson because she could play from the time she could walk. Musical influences include fury, silence, and NPR. Single, highly employable, lover of puns, and just grateful to be playing music with her friends. Likes to remind Scott and Shane that it's fine. Right? 

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With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sound, Sierra Ferrell makes music that's as fantastically vagabond as the artist herself. Growing up in West Virginia, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist got her start belting out Shania Twain songs in a local bar at the age of seven, and left home in her early 20s to journey across the country with a troupe of wandering musicians. "I met all these homeless kids who were traveling all over the place and playing amazing old songs, and I wanted to be a part of that," says Ferrell, who played everywhere from truck stops to alleyways to freight train boxcars speeding down the railroad tracks. "The music they were making was so honest, so pure. It seemed important to bring that kind of music back, and it's been with me ever since."

After years of living in her van and busking on the streets of New Orleans and Seattle, Ferrell moved to Nashville and started landing gigs around town. Soon enough, her magnetic live show drew the attention of Rounder Records, who signed Ferrell in 2019. To date, she's enchanted audiences at major festivals like The Avett Brothers at the Beach, AmericanaFest, and Out on The Weekend, and also shared the stage with the likes of Trampled by Turtles, Parker Millsap, Charley Crockett, and The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band.

Produced by Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Gillian Welch), Ferrell's debut singles for Rounder feature a stellar lineup of musicians, including country royalty like Chris Scruggs and her longtime collaborator Nathan Leath (a fiddle player she first met at the American Legion Post 82's Honky-Tonk Tuesday). Sprung from her self-described "country heart but a jazz mind," those tracks include "Why'd Ya Do It": a beguiling and bittersweet lament partly inspired by Ferrell's fascination with calypso and tango music. ("That song took me a few years to put together -- it's such a different vibe for me, and I'm ridiculously happy with the outcome," Ferrell notes.) And with its galloping rhythm and classic bluegrass storytelling -- as well as a guest appearance from Grammy Award-winner Sarah Jarosz on background vocals -- "Jeremiah" sweetly delivers what Ferrell dubs "a broken song, with a gleam of hope at the end."

Now at work on her full-length debut for Rounder, Ferrell delights in defying all convention in everything she creates. "I want my music to be like my mind is -- all over the place," she says. "I listen to everything from bluegrass to techno to goth metal, and it all inspires me in different ways that I try to incorporate into my songs and make people really feel something."

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