Sharon Gilchrist

Sharon Gilchrist has long made her home in the American traditional acoustic music scene. Whether you have seen her playing mandolin, upright bass, singing a traditional ballad or performing original material, you've heard an artist steeped in traditional Appalachian music. Sharon has performed with Darol Anger, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet Quartet, Scott Nygaard and John Reischman, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Uncle Earl, The Kathy Kallick Band, Bill Evans, Scott Law & he Bluegrass Dimension and the Ger Mandolin Orchestra directed by Mike Marshall. She is currently based in the East Bay of northern California.

​In addition to performing, Sharon is a respected mandolin teacher. She is available for private mandolin instruction in Berkeley, California and is also available to teach mandolin lessons online via Skype. Sharon served as mandolin instructor at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design from 2004 - 2012 and has taught numerous music camps throughout the States. Sharon received a Bachelor's Degree in Mandolin Performance from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sharon also offers two mandolin courses on the instructional website pegheadnation.com: Beginning Mandolin and Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin. Lessons are filmed and available via monthly subscription to Peghead Nation. Be on the look out for Sharon's release of a third and NEW MANDOLIN COURSE on Peghead Nation by early 2020!

You can hear Sharon on several recording projects including, "The Harmonic Tone Revealers" featuring the acoustic trio Scott Nygaard (guitar), John Reischman (mandolin, mandola) and Sharon Gilchrist (mandolin, bass). You can hear Sharon playing bass on an album by fiddling legend Darol Anger titled, "Darol Anger and the E-and-A's." Sharon is the featured mandolinist on Rounder Record release, "Quartet" recorded during her time as a member of the Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet.

Sharon uses D'addario Strings and plays a 1991 Gilchrist F5 mandolin.