Jake Clayton
Fiddle, Dobro, Mandolin, Vocals and etc.
Jake Clayton, a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, joins Ironweed from Mexico, Mo. In his young twenty-one years he already has an amazing amount of musical accomplishments that most musicians only dream of. He has shared the stage with many traditional and new country artists from Loretta Lynn to Rascal Flatts. Jake sleeps, eats and breathes the music. Well accomplished on fiddle, mandolin, dobro, guitar, banjo and bass, to name only a few, he respectfully chomps into every style of music and instrument he can get his hands on.
Jane Accurso
Lead Vocals, Guitar
A lot of backwoods passion flows through Jane Accurso’s veins with her deep, Missouri Ozark and Arkansas roots. Her dad’s people were old-time stringband musicians and on her mom’s side, Aunt Pearl was known to be the best Schottische dancer in all of St. Clair County. From traditional grass to newgrass, from traditional country to Cajun and old-time, Jane continues to bring fire to the Ironweed stage with lead vocals, guitar and occasional mandolin, when smiled at real pretty. She likes to perform barefoot when the weather permits, but she has several pairs of excessively colorful cowboy boots reserved for wintertime use
Dierik Leonhard
Banjo, Fiddle, Clawhammer Banjo, Vocals and etc.
Dierik says he was born in Germany, but his close friends suspect that he's really from the third moon of the Planet Banjo, located in Orion's belt buckle. He is fluent in all styles of banjo picking, so he can -- and often will -- sound like Earl Scruggs one minute and Tony Trishka the next. Most pickers would be tickled just to know all of the stuff he's forgotten or abandoned. Besides that, he is an excellent lead and harmony singer. His fiddlin' raises the roof. His old-time clawhammer banjo will surely make you whoop & holler. Dierik has taught "Bluegrass 101" for many years in the Columbia School system, and and has started many pickers down that high, lonesome bluegrass highway. Dierik has the biggest grin in bluegrass music.
Alan Loshbaugh
Bass Fiddle, Vocals
Alan Loshbaugh is new to bluegrass but not to the upright bass. Originally from San Francisco, he settled in St. Louis for a number of years and now claims Columbia, Mo as home. Alan comes to Ironweed with an amazing background in jazz. He’s studied under St. Louis jazz giants, Bob Wagner and Tom Kennedy, has played in many bands from jazz to blues to rock and now, bluegrass with Ironweed. Alan embraces the traditional, devouring his Bill Monroe recordings with a frenzy while at the same time, hopes to throw a wide ranging skill set at a new-to-him kind of music and see what sticks!
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