Randi first picked up the mandolin in 2014 and began mandolin and singing lessons with Annie Nies of McCall. Two years later, Randi joined Annie’s band “Open Range” as a vocalist and a small bluegrass group known as the “Hens”. In 2021, she began lessons with Jason Homey in Boise. She continues to study with Jason and plays at jams, area nursing homes, and open mic nights. 

Priscilla’s musical journey began at age 11, when she convinced her mother to buy her a flute. Classical training ensued. Forty-eight years later, she picked up a guitar( a lifelong ambition), began learning to play by ear and spent a week at Clifftop West Virginia. There , she fell in love with the beauty and energy of Old Time music. Soon after, a move to Boise brought her into contact with bluegrass jamming and she was fortunate to be accepted by Jason Homey for lessons. Her motto as an adult learner is, “It’s never too late.” 

Janene was a classical violinist in a previous life. Discouraged and depressed by the classical world with its seriousness and long black dresses, she dropped out of music school and put her violin in the closet for 30 years. Upon retirement, Janene dabbled in ukulele, classical guitar, and mouth trumpet until she discovered bluegrass where she finally found musical nirvana. Under the tutelage of bluegrass legend Jason Homey, Janene runs the Beginner Bluegrass Jam for the Idaho Bluegrass Association. Her next project: banjo! 

Petra is a classically trained violinist who was lured to the dark side in 2018 when she fell into the company of other stringed instrument players jamming Bluegrass and Old Time music in Boise.  When she is not needed by her family, she can be found playing her fiddle anywhere she can.  

Kathy grew up in rural southern Ohio in a family where "hillbilly" music was strictly forbidden.  She eventually fled to the mountains of Idaho where, in her one and only act of rebellion, she took up the banjo.  She is known to run with a pack of feral musicians.  

Long ago and far away, Barbara was raised in the land of “West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gowns - in Music City USA, yes, but the side of town where “hillbilly music” was considered unrefined. Like Kathy, she flew the coop to Idaho, later stumbled upon Jason Homey’s bluegrass jam, and happily reclaimed her hillbilly self - first as guitar picker and now as banjo player. (She also claims the sentiment Jimmy Buffet  expressed in the last line of his song as titled above.)