Bob Dick
Northbridge, MA (bass, guitar, mandolin, Dobro, lead and harmony vocals)

Bob Dick began his musical journey at age 8, taking guitar lessons during summer vacation. Two years later at the Berkshire Mountain Bluegrass Festival he became extremely interested in the upright bass and bluegrass music. During his teenage years he studied jazz and classical bass with Joe Holovnia and was a member of the prestigious Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Feeling the need to make his own stamp on music he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston studying jazz and solo classical bass. Also at this time he started playing bluegrass professionally with Bear Acker and Billings Gap. 1991 was a busy recording time as Bob performed on recordings by Billings Gap, Rabbit in a Log and Rick Lang. Later in 1991 he attended the International Bluegrass Music Association trade show in Kentucky with the duo Rabbit in a Log. A group from Colorado named Front Range was also at the event and saw Bob play the bass. This began a 13-year stint that included recording five albums for Sugar Hill Records, shows in over 40 states, and several European tours. In 1995 Front Range won the IBMA gospel recorded event of the year for their recording “One Beautiful Day”. From 1994 to 2008 Bob was a member of Valerie & Walter Crockett and the Oxymorons and recorded 4 albums with them. Bob currently performs as a guitar and dobro player with Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, and as a bassist with SloGrass, with whom he has been a member of for 24 years. Bob also is a recording engineer and producer at his own Appleland Studios. He has released two solo projects: Tidings of Comfort and Joy – a Christmas Collection, and Life’s Highway which includes performances by many of Bob’s bluegrass/folk friends including his current bands, Front Range, and members of the Seldom Scene. Bob has also shared the stage with many top artists over the years including Tony Rice, Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, Jonathan Edwards, and Tim and Mollie O’Brien.
www.applelandmusic.com
www.slograss.com
www.blackstonevalleybluegrass.com

Krissy Dick
Northbridge, MA (lead and harmony vocals)

Krissy Dick has been singing bluegrass music since she was a teenager. Her step-dad Ed Dewey introduced her family to bluegrass music, taking them to many of the great Northeastern bluegrass festivals throughout the 1990's. She has also been singing with the Blackstone Community Chorus for over 5 years as well as in the Christmas In New England shows. Outside of music, Krissy is a 5th grade teacher, having taught for over 20 years in the Wachusett School District.

Karen Lincoln Wilber
Stow, MA (guitar, banjo, lead and harmony vocals)

Karen Lincoln Wilber has been playing music her whole life, studying classicalpiano and participating in musicals and choral groups through her student days.
She found her way into bluegrass through a Boston Bluegrass Union picking party— after which she was invited to take over lead vocals and rhythm guitar for the Boston area band Willow Creek. From there she went on to play guitar and become the lead vocalist for the award winning progressive bluegrass band Waystation, which toured regularly throughout New England from bluegrass festivals, to opening sold-out concerts for such major acts as Alison Krauss. Karen has been described as an outstanding interpreter of songs with rich and luminous vocals. In a review of Waystation’s ‘Looking for Love’ CD, Bluegrass Unlimited magazine called her a “terrific singer, with a pure, accurate voice.” She has recorded with Waystation, and with Rick Lang on many projects, and has lent background vocals to several others. Currently Karen is performing with the folk/americana band The Saturdays, based in the Metrowest Boston area. In her non-musical life, Karen is a respected audiologist at Boston Children's Hospital.

Amy Gallatin
Glastonbury, CT (guitar, ukelele, lead and harmony vocals)

Born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Amy lived in several states before settling in the West, where she was raised. During ten years in Idaho and Montana, Amy was the featured entertainer at various guest ranches, singing songs of the cowboy lifestyle and the outdoor life. A visit to CT put her in touch with musicians from the thriving New England bluegrass scene, and in 1993 she packed her bags and moved east to pursue putting a band together. Eight albums later—including a “Live in Europe” album and two projects recorded in Nashville with ace producer Rich Adler—Amy Gallatin and her band Stillwaters have taken the stage at some of the most prestigious venues in the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, and Europe. Their recent overseas tour of The Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Denmark—the band’s fifth—drew extremely enthusiastic crowds at house concerts, music clubs, theaters, country and bluegrass festivals. They have twice had the honor of representing the US as the featured performers at the European World of Bluegrass convention in the Netherlands.

Recently Amy has devoted her attention to her acclaimed “girl group” The Hot Flashes, an upbeat, swingy acoustic ensemble featuring lush female harmonies and including banjo, saxophone, and harmonica. They are backed by the members of Stillwaters, whom they lovingly refer to as the “Men-o-pause.”
www.amygallatin.com
www.thehotflashesmusic.com

Roger Williams
Glastonbury, CT (Dobro, guitar, bass, lead and harmony vocals)

Roger Williams started playing the resophonic, Dobro style guitar in 1963, when he was just a young teenager. Within the first year, he had already debuted with the Lilly Brothers and Don Stover at the Hillbilly Ranch in Boston, Mass., where they had performed for nearly two decades. Since then he has gone on to perform and/or record with many well respected bluegrass and folk acts on the national and international circuit, including Don Stover, White Mountain Bluegrass, Hazel Dickens, Joe Val, Bill Harrell, Wyatt Rice, Delia Bell & Bill Grant, Southern Rail, Ray Legere, Mark Schatz, Mac Wiseman, The New England Bluegrass Band, Salamander Crossing, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, Slavek Hanzlik, Mark Erelli, Hiro Arita and others. Career highlights include thirteen overseas tours with various artists, including a performance at the prestigious Dobro Festival in Slovakia and teaching workshops during Bluegrass Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV. Roger has recorded two solo projects, ‘Fireball’ and ‘Rt. 2 to Amherst’, and three collaborative efforts: ‘River of No Return’ (with long-time friend and musical associate Ray Legere), ‘Williams Squared’ (with son JD Williams), and ‘Something ‘Bout You’ (with partner Amy Gallatin). Roger has also been involved in CMH label’s ‘Pickin On’ series, where different musical genres are interpreted in the bluegrass vein.

About Roger, Bluegrass Unlimited magazine has said: “Williams, like all great acoustic slide players, can be mellow and lingering or crisp and jaunty. He’s also a very fine singer (with) more than a little of Merle Haggard in voice and emotion.”
www.rogerreso.com

 

Dave "Tex Orlomoski
Barkhamsted CT, (Guitar, banjo, vocals)

The CINE ensemble is pleased to welcome multi-instrumentalist Dave "Tex" Orlomoski for 2023. A Connecticut native son and a well-known figure for 40-plus years on the New England music scene, Dave is currently a member of the Seth Sawyer Band (VT) and Redwood Hill, a Country Gentleman tribute band. He was a founding member of the hugely popular Bear Bridge Band as well as Tex's Troubadours and Bear Minimum, and has also done stints with Connecticut's GrassRoutes and Shady Creek. He makes his home in Barkhamsted CT with his wife Robin, and although retired as a full time luthier, continues to repair stringed instruments in his home workshop.





JD Williams
Manhattan, NY (mandolin, octave mandolin, fiddle, guitar)

A recent addition to the CINE cast, JD Williams grew up steeped in the Williams family musical tradition, learning multiple instruments at a very early age thanks to his dad Roger Williams' influence. As an in-demand sideman and session player and regular member of Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, JD has performed with various ensembles and musicians in Boston, New England and the greater New York City area, including the award-winning bluegrass band Southern Rail, the popular acoustic group The Hot Flashes, the acclaimed Syracuse songwriter duo The Cadleys, and Connecticut songwriter Nathan Day. Today this Berklee College of Music grad exhibits a youthful style all his own with jazz and blues influences. He currently makes his home in Manhattan with his wife Christine.

 

 

Past/retired performers

 

Rick Lang
Kingston, NH (guitar, percussion, ukelele, lead and harmony vocals)

A native of New Hampshire, songwriter Rick Lang has become well known in the bluegrass community. His songs have been covered by some of the most renowned artists in bluegrass music, Southern gospel and the jazz world. He has over 60 song cuts to his credit, and the number keeps growing each year. Although most of his songs are self-composed, in recent years Rick has collaborated with several other notable writers in the bluegrass and gospel music field. Additionally, Rick has released four studio recordings of his own to date. Each has featured all original Rick Lang compositions.
Rick’s first Christmas album “The Season Of My Heart” (2003), was voted one of the top twenty-five albums of the year by the National Folk Radio survey. “Look To The Light,” an all gospel CD released in 2010 on Rural Rhythm Christian (RRC), was nominated for a GMA (Gospel Music Association) Dove Award as well as an IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Gospel Recorded Event Of The Year. In 2012 Rick recorded and released the Christmas single “Little Did They Know” on the Rural Rhythm Records Label featuring Jana Mougin on vocals. October 7, 2014 marked the official release of Rick’s 2nd Holiday CD “That’s What I Love About Christmas”. A year and a half in the making, the album features ten new original Christmas/seasonal songs by Rick, with a whole new cast of performers. Very different than previous releases, this one has more of a jazz flavor and the feel of some of the classic Christmas songs of the 40's and 50's. In addition to a busy songwriting schedule, Rick conducts songwriting workshops, and does some freelance writing for Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. Rick and his wife Wendy have two daughters, three granddaughters, and currently reside in Kingston New Hampshire.

www.ricklangmusic.com

Ken Taylor
Northbridge, MA (bass, guitar, ukelele, lead and harmony vocals)

A lifelong musician, Ken originally started as a guitar player with an interest in folk music but was soon sidetracked into bluegrass. He was one of the original members of the Central Turnpike Bluegrass Band from the Central MA area, and had lengthy tenures with Rolling Hills Bluegrass, Boston-based bands Adam Dewey & Crazy Creek the long-running regional favorite Blackstone Valley Bluegrass, as well as a brief stint with Blue Union. Upon retirement, Ken and family relocated to the sunshine state of Florida where he plans to spend many a day at the golf course!

Dave Dick
Southbridge, MA (banjo, guitar, mandolin, lap steel, lead and harmony vocals)

Dave Dick is a multi-instrumentalist, writer, singer, and producer who also owns D String Guitar Repair where he is repairman and Luthier. Dave’s career spans over 35 years, playing in several prominent bluegrass groups in the Northeast including Southern Rail, Salamander Crossing, Northern Lights, and Blackstone Valley Bluegrass. Dave has traveled the US extensively and been featured on many recordings over the years. Although known as a superb five-string banjo player, Dave also is a versatile guitarist, playing both flatpicking and fingerstyle as well as electric guitar. Formerly a producer for CMH Records 'Pickin’ On' series, Dave produced tribute albums of The Eagles, Dwight Yoakam, Brad Paisley and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. These albums feature bluegrass-inspired performances of these artists' music. In 2016, Dave opened D String Guitar Repair, located in Sturbridge, MA, where he provides repairs and restorations for fretted instruments of all types. Dave released his first solo album, entitled 'Greenwood' in 2017; the album is a collection of original music written for acoustic guitar.
www.dstringrepair.com
www.davedickmusic.com