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Dead Men's Hollow began as an impromptu backyard pick n' sing in the summer of 2001. Several hundred shows later, the group is now a well-established regional band. Dead Men's Hollow performs nearly 40 shows a year at a wide range of venues, from churches, bars, and festivals to fine arts halls such as Strathmore and the Kennedy Center.
Dead Men's Hollow
draws its influences from bluegrass, country, blues, and gospel. The result is a unique sound, fronted by tight three-part female harmony vocals backed by fiddle, upright bass, and guitar. The group's repertoire comprises a vast array of original and traditional music, encompassing the early centuries of America's musical history as well as modern tales of love and loss.
The group has recorded two commercially released CDs, the most recent of which spent 13 weeks on the Roots Music Report bluegrass airplay chart. Dead Men's Hollow has tracks on four area compilation CDs, appeared on national television, received ten Washington Area Music Association "Wammie" Award nominations, won three Wammie Awards—including Best Bluegrass Group and Bluegrass Album of the Year—and continues to be played on radio programs around the world.
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Amy Nazarov,
who provides many of DMH's high harmonies and lead vocals
on "The Blackest Crow," "When I Stop Dreaming" and other band standards, has a completely random musical background. While as a child in Connecticut she pronounced family carol sings "totally dorky," she was secretly thrilled to be learning a bit about the intricacies of
harmony-singing ...
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While Belinda Hardesty's musical experiences have been wide and varied, it is the music of the people that moves her soul. The music of old people. Very old people. Very old dead people. So what better place for her than Dead Men's Hollow? With her music degree, Belinda has performed everything from medieval to jazz ...
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Caryn Fox
was bitten by the performance bug at birth. As a three-year-old, Caryn would regularly be found atop the living room coffee table, singing for whoever would stop to listen. In high-school, musicals were her love as she often performed in several shows a year, including standards such as Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, Pajama Game, Finnian's Rainbow, and The Sound of Music ...
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Jared Creason grew up in Indiana, about 45 minutes from Bill Monroe's music park in Bean Blossom, but unlike others in DMH, his was not a musical family. Not even close.
He started playing bass in 7th grade and continued through high school and college, earning a B.A. with a minor in music from Indiana State University.
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When Marcy Cochran decided to take up fiddling nearly 6 years ago, she couldn't find a teacher in the DC area, so she packed up her great grandfather's fiddle and headed for the woods of Tennessee. There she got a total immersion at Mark O'Connor's Nashville fiddle camp, and she returned 3 more summers ...
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In 1984, Mike Clayberg, was sitting on the basement stairs of Don Zientara's famed Inner Ear Studio in Arlington, Virginia, discussing a merger of genres with his band's guitar player, John Cobbett. Both members of Malefice agreed that the only thing more awesome than the band's combination of punk's raw energy with the double-bass thunder of speed metal would be the addition of bluegrass.
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