George Jackson
Bluegrass From the Forest 2024
Shelton S Mason Soccer Park
2102 E Johns Prairie Rd
Shelton, WA 98584
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Many here in the Pacific Northwest have been fans of Jacob Jolliff and his mandolin playing since he was a teenager in Newberg, Oregon. He often performed with his poet/songwriter dad and other local musicians. Sometimes we saw him on stage with bluegrass legends like David Grisman, who were taken by Jacob’s playing. We were right to think he was destined for big things.
At the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he joined a new wave of acoustic musicians who studied jazz, Celtic and other intricate musical forms that influenced Jacob’s musical tastes and versatility. By his sophomore year, he was playing with the roots-music band Joy Kills Sorrow, which toured extensively in the U.S. and overseas. He graduated from Berklee in 2011, and in 2012 he won the National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, Kansas.
Shortly after Joy Kills Sorrow took an indefinite break in 2014, the hugely popular Yonder Mountain String Band contacted him in search of a mandolin player. He immediately connected with the other musicians, and he soon became a full-time member. Jacob played and recorded with Yonder until the end of 2019.
In 2022, the incomparable Béla Fleck invited Jacob to join him and other stellar musicians like Bryan Sutton and Cody Kilby as part of the My Bluegrass Heart tour.
These days, the mandolinist’s main focus is The Jacob Jolliff Band. These virtuosic pickers play Jacob’s original instrumentals, while showcasing his singing. They have produced two albums.
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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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