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After wowing audiences as part of Béla Fleck’s touring band in 2022, mandolinist Jacob Jolliff will be coming to Monterey on Tuesday, July 9th with his own band in tow as a featured part of Otter Opry’s 2024 concert season. Here’s what Béla Fleck had to say about this remarkable young musician: “Jacob is a serious player. Considering his strong musical concept, formidable technical abilities, and a powerful work ethic, he is a mandolinist to watch.”
A former member of two massively popular progressive bluegrass bands, Joy Kills Sorrow and the Yonder Mountain String Band, Jolliff is one of the country’s premier contemporary mandolinists. He attended Berklee School of Music on a full scholarship, and he won the National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, KS in 2012. A fixture in the national bluegrass community, he has collaborated and shared the stage with Darol Anger, Sam Bush, Ronnie McCoury, Michael Daves, Tony Trischka, and David Grisman, to name just a few.
Now in 2024, the mandolinist’s primary focus is the Jacob Jolliff Band, a group of virtuosic pickers that play Jacob’s original instrumentals and showcase his singing. The group has released two albums: “Instrumentals Vol. 1” in 2018 and “The Jacob Jolliff Band” in 2022. In addition to Jacob himself, the band features Myles Sloniker on bass, Ross Martin on guitar, and George Jackson on fiddle. This will definitely be a concert to write home about, so get your tickets now. The event includes a public jam starting at 4:00pm and a delicious dinner at 5:30pm ($12.50 before July 6th, $17.50 at the door). Online ticket sales will end at noon the day of the performance.
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George Jackson Biography
George Jackson is a Nashville-based fiddle player and the 2022 IBMA Instrumentalist Of The Year Momentum Award Winner, who performs as a band leader and fiddler for hire with artists such as The Jacob Jolliff Band, Jake Blount, Tall Poppy String Band, The Local Trio, Front Country, Peter Rowan, Missy Raines, Charm City Junction and others. Born in New Zealand, George grew up in a musical family and first heard bluegrass music around the age of 14, immediately falling in love with the style he started trying to work out how to play it from recordings and from mentors in New Zealand. Moving to Australia as a 16-year-old, he won the Australian National Bluegrass Championship on fiddle three times and toured the country with his bluegrass band, "The Company", playing all the major folk festivals on the Australian circuit. As a resident of Nashville and the USA from 2016, George has released three albums of fiddle tunes, "Time and Place" in 2019 and "Hair & Hide" in 2021 and most recently “George Jackson’s Local Trio” with Eli Broxham and Frank Evans in 2023. He was awarded first place in the Mike Auldridge tune composition award by the DC bluegrass union in both 2019 and 2021 for his tunes "Chapel Hill Deer Stalk" and "Neighbor Mike" respectively. He also sparked a viral fiddle tune frenzy with his composition "Dorrigo", when hundreds of musicians learned the tune and posted videos of themselves playing it online, becoming known as the "#dorrigochallenge". In his free time, George loves to watch Star Trek and cook food at home, with recent obsessions in Italian and Cajun fare. He loves Swedish fiddle music and —fun fact— he was a competitive Highland dancer until the age of 21.
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