DAVID PROPST — Mandolin and Vocals

David attributes his style of play from the influences of such greats as, Doyle Lawson, Jimmy Gaudreau, Sam Bush, Buck White, Dempsey Young and Bill Monroe. David is best known for his driving chop and expert leads, skillfully melding contemporary and traditional influences as to create a style uniquely his own. His own Bluegrass heritage and church singing background has helped him refine his vocal abilities, which range from a strong tenor, to an exciting lead, to a smooth baritone. With over twenty years of professional experience playing Bluegrass, David has performed with such bands as The Puckett Brothers, Leon Morris & the Associates, Excalibur, Special Blend, Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band, The Fox Family, The Travelers, Fastest Grass Alive and the Darren Beachley & Maryland Line band. David’s band contributions include songwriting as well as musical arrangements. He and his wife, Michelle, currently reside in Martinsburg, WV.

DAVE MACGLASHAN — Upright Bass

Dave has listened to Bluegrass from the time that he was a very young boy. His father would sit and play guitar, with Dave close by, listening intently. He started playing banjo at fourteen, but the next year joined his dad's band when they were in need of a bass player. Since then, Dave has indeed proven to be one of the finest bassists in bluegrass music today and is still quite actively sought by many bands for fill-in work around the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and D.C. areas. Dave’s previous tenures include playing with the Carroll County Ramblers, Line Drive, The Dede Wyland Band, The Travelers and the Gary Ferguson & Sally Love band. Dave again returns to the stage, bringing to the band his driving bass and impeccable timing. Currently, Dave resides in the Church Hill, MD area.

KEITH WADDELL — Guitar & Vocals

Most of Keith Waddell's earliest childhood memories include sounds of the flat-top guitar. Born to a musical family, his father taught him the music of Ray Price, Hank Williams and the Bluegrass greats of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs. He and his older brothers would occasionally take turns playing back up for a local fiddler, their uncle Ralph Jamison of Lancaster County PA. By the age of fifteen, Keith was spending most of his time exploring southern rock on the electric guitar, but always kept grounded in the music he grew up with and loved so dearly. It wasn't until his mid-twenties when Keith’s father purchased the family's first Martin guitar that he took a real interest in Bluegrass music. It was around this time that he was introduced to the sounds of J.D. Crowe & The New South and has been a ‘Bluegrasser’ ever since. Keith is known for his previous works with Ross Nickerson & the Fast brothers, also performing as a supporting member of Footworks, with Jon Glik and Mark Schatz. Keith and his wife, Robin, have one son Michael, and live in Rising Sun, MD.

SCOTT WALKER — Banjo & Vocals

Scott knew he had to play banjo the first time he heard Earl Scruggs play the Foggy Mountain Breakdown. Trading a bowling ball and $20.00 for his very first banjo, he began playing Bluegrass at the age of fifteen. Scott's influences of Earl Scruggs, J.D. Crowe and Sonny Osborne, helped him create his own blended style and he accredits the three T’s of Taste, Tone and Timing as essential elements to the music, which can easily be heard in his driving fluid roll, tasteful backups and commanding leads. Scott first played professionally in 1982 with a group called Frontier Justice. Since then, he's lent his talents to such bands as Too Far Gone, John O'Dell & Windy Ridge, Paul Adkins & the Borderline Band, Leon Morris & the Associates, Fastest Grass Alive and Darren Beachley & the Maryland Line. He previously taught banjo for eleven years at the Appalachian Bluegrass Shoppe in Catonsville, MD. One of Scott's lively original instrumentals, ‘Sidewinder’, was featured in the April 2000 issue of the Banjo Newsletter publication. Scott currently resides in Winchester, VA.

KEVIN MALLOW — Fiddle & Vocals

Kevin’s masterful mountain style fiddle playing is reminiscent of one of Bluegrass music's all-time Bluegrass fiddle greats, Kenny Baker. Kevin began playing violin at age ten with his fourth grade orchestra. By fifteen, Kevin started to play the Bluegrass fiddle, as well as taking up the guitar. He’d also joined his first band then, too, playing fiddle with Gene & Joe and the Highland Grass. Kevin continued to excel in his newly found musical talent, becoming a virtual one-man-band by also picking up the banjo, the upright bass and the mandolin. Since winning three Maryland State Fiddle Championships in the early ‘90’s, he has lent his talents to such bands as Daybreak, Ron Keith & Hidden Valley, Charlie Smith & the Potomac Valley Boys, the Bluegrass Mountain Boys and, most recently, Darren Beachley & the Maryland Line. Kevin currently resides in the Cumberland, MD area.

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