Audie Blaylock :: 2007 IBMA Award

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PATRICK McAVINUE Young, fresh, inspiring, talented, stubborn, spirited, and gifted are all adjectives that describe the bluegrass fiddler, Patrick McAvinue. It was in Elementary School, at the age of seven, when his best buddy introduced him to the fine art of fiddling. In view of his talents, his family supported him in his decision to take private lessons. The three years he was classically trained during school helped him for when at the age of ten, Amy Hopkins, who was a Piedbody student, taught him how to play the fiddle, bluegrass style. He also took lessons from Troy Engle when he was fourteen.

Since he began his journey learning the fiddle, he has participated in many fiddling competitions. He has been honored with the title of Delaware State Fiddling Champion. The First band Patrick played with was the Salem Bottom Boys when he was at a very young age of twelve. Since then he has moved on to play with numerous bands from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Many great fiddle virtuosos including Troy Engle, Benny Martin, Stuart Duncan, Aubrey Haynie, Mark O'Connor, and Rickie Simpkins have all inspired Patrick.


Patrick McAvinue
Patrick McAvinue
(fiddle)

EVAN WARD has packed alot of living in his 19 years.  Since Evan departed Gerald Evans and Paradise, he has played with Don Rigsby and Midnight Call, The Lynn Morris Band, and some side shows for Higher Crossing that included Marshall Wilborne, Don Rigsby, Ray Craft, Randy Kohrs.

He has been featured on the IBMA Youth Stage in 2001, 2002, and 2003. He also was part of a banjo workshop at IBMA in 2004. In August 2001, he was the winner of WBZI Radio Station's Banjo Contest, and in 2002 won the Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival's Youth Band Contest.

Evan played on the Grand Ole Opry in February 2003 and went on in May of that year to release his first solo CD featuring his first originally written title cut, "The Beginning".

"Evan Ward is sure to be one of the important banjo players in the 21st Century!" --Glen Duncan

Evan Ward
(banjo)

MATT WALLACE spent the last two years playing for the legendary Paul Williams. While with him, their band won the 2007 and 2008 SPBGMA Traditional Bluegrass Gospel Group Award. He has been playing bass since age eleven, but got his first taste of bluegrasss in 2004 and picked up the upright bass while playing for his church choir.

Born and raised in East Tennessee, Matt graduated from Carson-Newman College in 2006 makes his home in Morristown, TN with his lovely wife Diane. "I am extremely thankful for a family that supports and encourages me in all I do. I consider myself blessed to be part of this group and I hope that everyone who hears us will enjoy this music as much as I enjoy playing and singing it."
Matt Wallace
(bass and vocals)
JASON JOHNSON -mandolin 
  
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