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Dead Men's Hollow began as an impromptu backyard pick n' sing in the summer of 2001. Several hundred shows later, the group is now a well-established regional band. Dead Men's Hollow performs nearly 40 shows a year at a wide range of venues, from churches, bars, and festivals to fine arts halls such as Strathmore and the Kennedy Center.
Dead Men's Hollow
draws its influences from bluegrass, country, blues, and gospel. The result is a unique sound, fronted by tight three-part female harmony vocals backed by fiddle, upright bass, and guitar. The group's repertoire comprises a vast array of original and traditional music, encompassing the early centuries of America's musical history as well as modern tales of love and loss.
The group has recorded three commercially released CDs and has tracks on numerous compilation CDs, appeared on national television, received 14 Washington Area Music Association "Wammie" Award nominations, won five Wammie Awards—including Best Bluegrass Group and Bluegrass Album of the Year—and continues to be played on radio programs around the world.
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Amy Nazarov,
who provides many of DMH's high harmonies and recently some of the lower ones too, and who plunks along on rhythm guitar as long as the song is in A or G, is another band member with a completely random musical background. While as a child in Connecticut she pronounced family carol sings "totally dorky," she was secretly thrilled to be learning a bit about the intricacies of finding harmonies ...
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While Belinda Hardesty's musical experiences have been wide and varied, it's the old-time music that ultimately moves her soul. With her music degree, Belinda has performed medieval to jazz on everything from recorder to bari sax to voice. She's performed with ...
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Caryn Fox
was bitten by the performance bug at birth. As a three-year-old, Caryn would regularly be found atop the living room coffee table, singing for whoever would stop to listen. In high-school, musicals were her love as she often performed in several shows a year, including standards such as Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, Pajama Game, Finnian's Rainbow, and The Sound of Music ...
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Jared Creason grew up in Indiana, about 45 minutes from Bill Monroe's music park in Bean Blossom, but unlike others in DMH, his was not a musical family. Not even close.
He started playing bass in 7th grade and continued through high school and college, earning a B.A. with a minor in music from Indiana State University.
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Marcy Cochran grew up backstage at Wolftrap, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art, the daughter of a classical violinist who played in the orchestras for all the concerts, dance, opera, and musical theatre that came through those venues. Mom had hopes of making a classical musician out of her early on ...
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A lifelong musician, Mike Clayberg has played many styles of music. From his punk days with Malefice to the day when he cofounded Dead Men's Hollow, music has always been a driving force in his life. Raised around the globe by two music-loving parents, Mike could only rebel against their chamber choirs and symphonies by listening to the Beatles and AC/DC.
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