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When it comes to movers and shakers in the bluegrass world, Full Cord is a super-group on the rise. After winning the prestigious 2022 Telluride Bluegrass Band Competition in Colorado, the Michigan-based group followed that with another much-coveted honor when the International Bluegrass Music Association named Full Cord its Momentum Award Band of the Year. While mandolinist Brian Oberlin notes the bands music is new and fresh to the ears of seasoned bluegrass fans, the bluegrass traditions in Full Cord have deep roots.
The groups members Brian Oberlin, guitarist Eric Langejans, bassist Todd Kirchner, banjo Max Allard boast decades of musical artistry, with experience in popular performing bands from Michigan to Oregon. The group brings along top players to fill in fiddle and banjo to round out that rich bluegrass tone. The bands debut album on Nashvilles Dark Shadow Recording was released in Nov. of 2023 and has maintained charting positions through spring of '24. Full Cords songwriting has reached a new tipping point, Manager Katie Kirchner suggests, enhanced by the groups vast repertoire and robust experience in numerous band projects over the years.
And Oberlin insists the band is just hitting its stride ready to follow in the footsteps of fellow Michigan bluegrass icons Billy Strings and Greensky Bluegrass as yet another star in the making.
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