Bios

Lisa Schneider, fiddle/vocals

Lisa grew up spending weekends travelling to fairs and festivals all over the state with her Dad, a well-known Texas caricature artist. As a kid, she was exposed to every kind of music Texas had to offer while she was running around craft booths and carnivals. So, old time and bluegrass music became part of the musical fabric that made up her life, though it wasn't until recently that she began exploring it as a personal musical expression. She's played the fiddle most of her life, but singing is a new joyful exploration for her.

Eric Vormelker, bass/vocals

Eric grew up overseas listening to his Dad's old Flatt & Scruggs LP's and is constantly amazed at the songs he finds himself recognizing from his distant past. He's a proud porch-pickin' bassist and has played in numerous bands of all kinds in Austin for way longer than he'd choose to share.

Jerry Hagins (banjo, fiddle)

Jerry was inspired to pick up the 5-string after hearing Dueling Banjos on the radio in high school. Mr. Oral Griffith, who ran the Arlington Music Shop alongside his convenience store on South Cooper, introduced him to the old songs. While struggling with bluegrass-style picking he chanced across a Camp Creek Boys record and got hooked on the eccentric tones of clawhammer banjo.

Most recently he's been giving lessons and playing the dance and coffeehouse circuit in Austin, TX with various combos including the Big Ernie Barn Dance Band, Pistol Love Family Band, the Runaway Brides, the Rising Gorge Boys, Trink and the Curmudgeons, the Oldtime Pie Junkies, the Health & Happiness Stringband, Old Waterloo, and Christy and the Plowboys, among others. he's performed and recorded with Ken Waldman, Alaska's fiddling poet, and picks with friends at the Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention in NC and Clifftop festival in WV.