Sally Love Career Bio

Sally Love

Sally adds harmony and lead vocals, and plays guitar. A 2003 Wammie (Washington Area Music Association Award) winner for best bluegrass vocalist
in the Washington/Baltimore area. Sally is in demand as a lead and back-up vocalist, and has performed with various acoustic and bluegrass groups in the Washington DC area in such venues as The Ramshead Tavern, Kennedy Center, and The Barns at Wold Trap. In addition to playing music, she works for the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum where, among other responsibilities, she has collected insects in the tropics and appeared as the "Bug Lady" on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and 8 times on Late Night with David Letterman. Sally makes her home in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Emory Lester

Emory Lester grew up in northern Virginia to the sounds of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the Osborne Brothers. Starting with the fiddle at the age of six, Emory soon joined in jam sessions with his dad and uncles, and has had bluegrass in his blood ever since. Developing a distinctively innovative mandolin style, he has over the years performed with such noted musicians as Del McCoury, Bill Emerson, Mac Wiseman, Tony Trischka, John Starling, and Mark Newton, as well as being part of or the creator of many energetic contemporary bands in the eastern U.S. and Canada. He has also shared tunes with many of his influences, including Tony Rice, David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Jimmy Gaudreau and Doyle Lawson.

Mike Munford

Born in St. Louis and raised in Baltimore, Mike started playing banjo at age 15. Two years later he joined his first Bluegrass band, Windy Ridge, and played every Thursday night at the Cub Hill Inn in Baltimore for seven years. Mike moved on to play with several regional bands that toured the U.S. and Europe. Mike's recording credits include Peter Rowan's 1997 Grammy nominated album "Bluegrass Boy", a musical segment on "America's Most Wanted", Larry Rice's album "Notions and Daydreams" and an upcoming Joe Meadows fiddle album. Mike can also be seen in "Gather at the River," a documentary on the International Bluegrass Music Association convention held in Owensboro, Kentucky. Mike has toured with Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, The Rice Brothers and Lynn Morris.

Kip Martin

Kip Martin, a highly respected bluegrass bassist has just joined forces with Gary Ferguson and Sally Love. Kip's bass playing has been singled out as 'clean and crisp', 'lean and mean', as well as 'solid, driving' in publications such as Bluegrass Unlimited, Ibluegrass, Blueprint, and Bluegrass Now magazines. Kip has performed as a regular band member with several major traditional country and all types of bluegrass acts, including stints with Kitty Wells, Auldridge, Bennett, and Gaudreau, Norman Wright and the Travelers, Chris Jones and the Nightdrivers, Jodee Mesinna Band, and most recently as a Sunny Mountain Boy with the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin. He has toured Europe, playing with Mike Auldridge, the Mike O'Reilly/Dick Smith Band, and Auldridge, Bennett, and Gaudreau.