The Bow Ties play Hypnotic West-Coast Bluegrass.

Yoseff Tucker

Yoseff’s early life exposure to traditional bluegrass and country music came courtesy of his fiddler grandfather who moved to Central California from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. His first guitar came to him while he was still in diapers and an appreciation for music laid a great foundation in his life. As a young adult, Yoseff found his way back to bluegrass music and in a matter of years created a life centered on the proliferation and progress of bluegrass. Tucker was the Northern California Bluegrass Society Guitarist of the Year for five years and the Northern California Bluegrass Society Male Vocalist of the Year twice.

Billy Moore

At age ten, Billy was inspired by mainly blues, acid rock, funk and metal music and picked up his first guitar. For ten years after he would learn more about music than he thought possible. His path eventually brought him to bluegrass music at age twenty and his first banjo. Traditional bluegrass music seemed as if it had always been in his heart and he quickly soaked up the nuance and precision of a 5-string banjo player. Billy is mainly self-taught and has been known to say things like “I know one melodic lick and I don't like to play it at all.” He picked up traction and experience playing with well-known California bluegrass bands like the Del Williams Band and Central Valley Boys. Billy currently lives in Santa Cruz, California. 

Jack Kinney

Hailing from the bread basket of the world, the Central Valley of California, Jack Kinney lends his traditional style of bluegrass fiddling to the Bow Ties. He’s also a hell of a singer. Kinney plays with Caleb and Reeb, The Grass Kickers, The Blue Jays and The Central Valley Boys. He’s performed at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival and Lost River Bluegrass Festival.

Zach Sharpe

Born into bluegrass, Sharpe was raised by “pickers” in the backwoods of Indiana. He moved to California in high school and started playing with the MacNasty Family of Funk. Through the sounds and soul of R&B music, he gained new insights into bass playing, rhythm and music as a whole. His musical influences range from Flatt and Scruggs and Jimmy Martin to James Brown and Outkast. Sharpe played in standout Bay Area bands like Supermule and Front Country.

Caleb Roberts

Originally from Columbia, SC, Roberts first learned about show business playing mandolin and bass with alt-country and western band Slim Cessna's Auto Club. He grew up listening his father's bluegrass record collection and founded Open Road in 1999. Roberts is recognized for his deep heartfelt classic style of mandolin playing. Open Road recorded three albums on Rounder Records and toured heavily for five years before retiring. Open Road reunited for a Rockygrass performance in 2011. Roberts began playing electric guitar and building tube amplifiers in his garage laboratory in Lyons, CO. He has played with The Billy Pilgrims, Bonnie and the Clydes and several other bands.

Michael Carroll

Drummer Michael Carroll is well known for making music wherever he goes. Even as a toddler he was drumming on pots & pans & countertops or any solid surface within reach. When he was ten he joined the school band where he played the snare drum & continued to play in high school with the Concert, Symphonic, & Jazz Bands. In college he received a First Line Snare Drum Scholarship at Georgia Southern University. After playing with several local bands, he joined The Saloon Pilots in Hawaii & opened for Wynonna Judd & the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He also performed at RockyGrass with 49 Special in Lyons, CO & played with other bands including: Jack Sonni of Dire Straits, Irish Rock Band Doolin Rakes, & SuperMule. Currently you can catch him laying down the beats with San Francisco band, The Bow Ties, Healdsburg Like a Rose-Jerry Garcia Tribute Band, & Portland based duo Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms country band.