DANNY PAISLEY (AND THE SOUTHERN GRASS) From Landenburg, Pennsylvania—about fifty miles southwest of Philadelphia. Danny’s father Bob Paisley formed the Southern Grass in 1979. Prior…
JOSHUA PALMER From Owls Hollow, Alabama. Plays mandolin with an Alabama group called Valley Road. He previously worked with a gospel group called Canaan’s Crossing.…
RICK PARDUE From State Road, North Carolina. 1975, played banjo in a North Carolina band called the Sugarloaf Ramblers. Left the music scene in the…
JEFF PARKER From Renfro Valley, Kentucky. Began playing guitar at age six. Age 12, began performing with his family band Sounds of Gospel at the…
DAVID PARMLEY (AND CARDINAL TRADITION) From Nashville (White House, Tennessee), but grew up in Los Angeles, California. 1974, began playing bluegrass professionally at age 17…
DON PARMLEY From Monticello, Kentucky. Also lived in California and Virginia. Began playing banjo at age 12. After learning the Scruggs style, he performed with…
DOLLY PARTON From Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Began her singing career at age 11. Moved to Nashville in 1964 after graduating from high school. Was introduced…
PATENT PENDING From the Washington, DC area. Formed in 1979 by Eldred Hill, Jim Steptoe, Rusty Williams, Leigh Taylor. 1980, began playing Wednesday nights at…
PATHWAY From Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Formed in 2007 by three brothers: Mitchell (bass), Mark (banjo), and Scott (fiddle) Freeman. Also in the band: Mark’s…
HERB PEDERSEN From Berkeley, California. Moved to Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley) in the 1960’s. Began career in Bay Area playing in a band called…
PENN CENTRAL From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1981 by Mark Rickert (guitar) and Steve Huber (banjo). Other members of the band included Todd Clewell…
LARRY PERKINS Originally from Grant County, Indiana. Lived for many years in Nashville (rented a house from Earl Scruggs). Currently lives in North Carolina. A…
BILLY PERRY From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A banjo player who is a member of an Oklahoma band called Mountain Smoke. Vince Gill was also in…
PERT NEAR SANDSTONE From Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Formed in 2004 along the sandstone bluffs of St. Paul, Minnesota by Justin Bruhn (bass), Kevin Kniebel (banjo),…
CARSON PETERS (AND IRON MOUNTAIN) From Piney Flats, Tennessee. Began playing fiddle at age 3. 2011, at age 8 made an appearance on The Tonight…
DAVID PETERSON (AND 1946) From Nashville, Tennessee. Originally from Easton, Massachusetts. A historian of bluegrass and country music and has performed with several bluegrass bands…
PETTICOAT JUNCTION From Nashville, Tennessee. An all-female band formed in 1988 by Andrea Campbell (Roberts) who had previously worked with Wendy Smith and Blue Velvet,…
LEWIS PHILLIPS From Lincolnton, Georgia. Son of Earl and Janis Phillips (Janis was a member of the gospel singing group, The Lewis Family,). 1972, at…
TODD PHILLIPS From the San Francisco Bay area (born in San Jose). Now lives in Nashville. One of the top bass players in bluegrass music.…
PHOENIX From Charlottesville, Virginia. Formed in 2000. Members: David Coffey (guitar), Eddie King (mandolin), Randy Driskill (banjo), Jim Green (bass). 2001, released “Rising from the…
CORY PIATT From Winston-Salem, NC. Currently lives in Nashville. Began playing the mandolin at age 7 performing at contests and festivals with his family group,…
NOAM PIKELNY From Champaign, Illinois. A banjo player who was inspired as a teen by Bela Fleck. 2002, played in a college jam band called…
PINE MOUNTAIN RAILROAD From Knoxville, Tennessee. Formed in 1998 by guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Jimbo Whaley and banjo player Kipper Stitt. Other band members have…
THE PINNACLE BOYS From Knoxville, Tennessee. A band featuring Bud Brewster (guitar), Larry Mathis (banjo), Jim Smith (mandolin), Randall Collins (fiddle), Jerry Moore (fiddle) and…
MO PITNEY From Cherry Valley, Illinois. Lives in Nashville. Real name: Morgan Daniel Pitney. As a teenager, he played in a bluegrass band with his…
THE PLATE SCRAPERS From Virginia and Western Maryland. Formed in 2014 by Derek Kretzer (banjo), Andrew Jordan (guitar), Brett Kretzer (mandolin), Jody Mosser (dobro, lap…
WOODY PLATT From Western North Carolina. 1998-2022, played guitar and sang lead vocals for the Steep Canyon Rangers. As a member of that group, he…
PLAYING ON THE PLANET From Ducktown, Tennessee. Formed in 2003 under the name Ducktown Station. Their music is described as “Cosmic Rockin’ Boogie Grass.” Their…
PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS From Sevierville, Tennessee. Formed in 2014 by C.J. Lewandowski (mandolin), Josh Rinkel (guitar), Jereme Brown (banjo) and Jasper Lorentzen (bass). Lewandowski (mandolin)…
FRANK POINDEXTER From Monroe, North Carolina. A Dobro™ player, uncle to the Rice Brothers (Tony, Larry, Wyatt and Ron.) Has toured and recorded with the…
THOMAS PORTER From Phoenix, Arizona Plays guitar and mandolin. A man of many talents, he is also a licensed massage therapist, a web designer, graphic…
PRAIRIE WILDFIRE (SAGE AND PRAIRIE WILDFIRE) From Buffalo, Wyoming. Formed in 2015 by Morgan Blaney (bass), Sage Palser (mandolin) and Tessa Taylor (banjo, guitar). 2023,…
THE KEVIN PRATER BAND From Belcher, Kentucky. Formed in 2009 by Kevin Prater (mandolin) and Tom Timberlake (banjo). Prater formerly worked with the James King…
MICHAEL PREWITT From Williamsburg, Kentucky. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, specializing in mandolin. 2021-2024, played mandolin with Special Consensus. 2024, released two solo projects, The Peerless…
BILL PRICE From Monroe, North Carolina. He owned a farm and studio there called “Bluegrass Hill.” Began musical career in 1954. Recorded two albums for…
JAMES PRICE From Uneeda, West Virginia. Lives in Parkersburg, WV. Began pro career as fiddler with the Goins Brothers Band. 1994, released “The Old Mountaineer”…
THE PRICE SISTERS From Sardis (Monroe County), Ohio. A duo featuring twin sisters Lauren Price (mandolin) and Leanna Price (fiddle). They began singing at the…
THE PRIMITIVE QUARTET From Candler, North Carolina. They perform bluegrass and Southern gospel music in churches and other gospel-music venues. Formed in 1973 by two…
MARC PRUETT From Haywood County, North Carolina. 1972-74, worked with James Monroe. Worked at a music store in Asheville, NC teaching banjo for many years,…
THE PUNCH BROTHERS From Nashville, relocated to New York City in 2008. Formed in 2007 by mandolinist Chris Thile (formerly of Nickel Creek), enlisting the…
PSYCHOGRASS A project band featuring Darol Anger (fiddle), David Grier (guitar), Mike Marshall (mandolin), Todd Phillips (bass), and Tony Trischka (banjo). 1993, released Psychograss album…
DALE PYATT From Viburnern, Missouri (in the Ozarks). Grew up in Columbia, Missouri. A singer/songwriter who co-wrote the song “Life Goes On,” from the award-winning…
PYTHAGORAS From Johnson City, Tennessee Formed in 2023 by Grant Dresnok (guitar), Gracie Mae Grossman (fiddle), Joe Henson (mandolin), Gabriel Hebert (banjo) and Lexi Wagnitz…