Progressive acoustic music, mixing up folk, bluegrass, blues and country pop with tasteful picking and sweet harmony vocals. I play fiddle and various mandolins and sing harmony and occasional lead vocals. Information and sample songs are available on the Second String Band website.

Dubbed “the best band that never made a record” by one of their fans, the band is currently selecting songs for their first album from their extensive catalog of original material, and plan to begin recording it this fall at Cat’s Away.

Comprised of former members of acclaimed alt-country powerhouse The Brown Mountain Lights, Great Big Gone serves up a twangy blend of electrified porch picking, finger licking, roots rocking, western swinging, honky tonking Americana all garnished with a pinch of cajun. I play fiddle and mandolins, and sing harmony and occasional lead vocals.

The band released its first album, “Threadbare Heart”, on July 4th of 2008. It was recorded here at Cat’s Away and mastered by Brent Lambert at Kitchen Mastering in Carrboro.

See the Great Big Gone website for more details.

Instrumental progressive rock by bassist Paul Kollar, drummer Josh Feldman, and guitarist Dave Griffith, with yours truly contributing some violin and additional keyboard parts. Paul Kollar and I are completing their upcoming album “Lizard Ignition” here at Cat’s Away, recording additional overdubs and doing the final mixes. Their MySpace page has some sample tracks and early rough mixes.

An acoustic duo featuring guitar, fiddle, banjo & mandolin. A little of everything, from folk to blues to country to bluegrass to traditional English and Irish ballads and drinking songs.

Matt Mikula’s electric band. They’ve recorded an album at Electric Daveyland studio to which I contributed a few violin & mandolin parts and some harmony vocals and arrangements.

Best known for her incendiary electric violin work with The Ozone Quartet, Hollis plays and records many styles of music and teaches privately. We occasionally perform together as a violin duo, and Hollis also performs with a variety of other ensembles. See the Cardinal Strings website for details and booking information.