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Hit songwriter, Lacie Blue is an award-winning performer, author and scholar. Her first album, “Nothing is Real” was produced by the legendary Wayne Moss and received rave reviews within the Americana genre. Her song, “Back Together” is the theme song for the World Craniofacial Foundation.
Lacie Blue has four #1 Hit Songs: “My Lucky Song”, and “Perfect Enough” by JoZie. “There Will Come a Day” and “World of Hope” sung by Billy Gaines. “There Will Come A Day” received a Grammy nod in 2022.
Lacie Blue is a Texas native, born in Dallas and grew up in Tyler! Her classical violin background spurs on her creativeness and passion for all genres of music. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin with her degree in Music Education/specialization in Violin Performance, a MS in Psychology, and a MFA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
Lacie Blue is the winner of 12 music awards in Texas, but the ones she is most proud of are Fiddler Of The Year, Bluegrass Act of the Year, and “People’s World Champion Fiddler” after competing with over 500 incredible fiddlers.
She has been able to grace the stage with greats such as Mark O’Connor, Mark Wood, Judy Hyman, Jonna Fitzgerald, Bruce Molsky, Isidor Saslav, Jerry Vandiver, and Jimmy Fortune. Lacie has opened for high-profile artists of many genres: Jimmy Fortune, The Cherryholmes, Mark O’Connor, Mark Wood, and Eileen Ivers. Having toured internationally as a classical violinist and fiddler in Austria, Germany, England, Ireland; she had the great honor of performing for the Arch-Bishop and Prime Minister Of Austria. Lacie was concert-master of the Led Zeppelin Symphony and a lead singer in the Led Zeppelin Choir performing with Mark Wood, Laura Kaye, Chuck Bontrager, Joe Deninzon, and Tracy Silverman. Lacie Blue has been part of nine symphonies and now been the soloist for many symphonic bands, choirs, and orchestras.
When Lacie isn’t performing and writing, she is educating, mentoring, and speaking on songwriting, ethnomusicology, and access to global music education.
Born in New Orleans and reared on the Mississippi coast, Richard formed his first rock band at age 16. Rock and Country / Americana led Richard to his varied style.
Trest lived in Houston, TX for fourteen years and played at dozens of ice houses and music venues. He moved to Nashville in 2000 to pursue songwriting and has co-written hundreds of songs with hit writers like Jon Robbin, Brent Baxter and Kid Rock and shared the stage with Big and Rich, Michael Martin Murphey (at SXSW), and artists from all over the world. He owned and operated Ri’chard’s, a restaurant/ music venue from 2005 till 2019. This is where Trest hosted over 10,000 of the world’s best unsigned songwriters. He now plays and writes in Nashville, TN while serving on the board of The Tennessee Songwriters Association International. Trest is a lifetime member of Nashville Songwriters Association International, and President of The Tennessee Highland Games and Celtic Music Festival.
Trest is a lead guitarist, and you can also find him playing harmonica, bass, and percussion at any given time. He has released three albums and has songs released on dozens of independent projects. Catch him at Nashville writer’s nights, The Frank Brown Songwriters Festival, performing at his church, the famous Blue Bird Café (where he is a chartered member), and his many YouTube videos.
Becky Buller is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter from St. James, MN, who has traversed the globe performing bluegrass music to underwrite her insatiable songwriting habit. Her compositions can be heard on records by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent andDoyle Lawson & Quicksilver, to name just a few.
Becky has written songs for Grammy award-winning albums: she co-wrote “Freedom,” the lead-off track of The Infamous Stringdusters 2018 Grammy-winning album Laws of Gravity as well as “The Shaker” on The Travelin’ McCourys self-titled release that brought home the 2019 Best Bluegrass Grammy.
Becky is the recipient of 10 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards, including the 2020 Song Of The Year, “Chicago Barn Dance” (co-written with Missy Raines and Alison Brown); 2020 Collaborative Recording for “The Barber’s Fiddle”; 2016 Fiddler and Female Vocalist and the 2018 Gospel Recorded Performance for the song “Speakin’ To That Mountain”.
She tours extensively with the Becky Buller Band and has released three albums on the Dark Shadow Recording label, including Distance And Time, which was a nominee for the 2021 IBMA Album Of The Year.
Equally passionate about bluegrass music education, Becky has 20 years experience teaching fiddle, singing, and songwriting at workshops and camps around the world.
She currently serves on the board of the IBMA Foundation.
