BARRY ABERNATHY
- From Georgia.
- A banjo player with a remarkable ability to play Scruggs-style banjo despite a birth defect which left him with no fingers on his left hand, just a thumb and several partial digits.
- 1993, joined Silver Creek.
- 1994, joined Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver.
- 1997, joined IIIrd Tyme Out.
- 1998, was a founding member of Mountain Heart.
- 2014, left Mountain Heart to strike out on his own.
- 2016, had surgery to repair nerve damage in his neck, which hindered his playing.
- 2018, teamed up with Darrell Webb (guitar/mandolin) to form Appalachian Road Show.
- 2019, he and his wife adopted a pair of siblings from a foster care facility including a youngster with the same birth defect on his hand as Barry. The story of the Abernathy family was then featured in a 2020 story on NBC’s The Today Show and also on the syndicated Mike Huckabee television program.
- 2021, released Barry Abernathy and Friends album (Billy Blue).