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A former member of Yonder Mountain String Band, Jacob Jolliff is one of the country’s premiere contemporary mandolinists, picking up the instrument at age seven and spending his youth picking his way around the northwest bluegrass circuit. With The Jacob Jolliff Band, he brings together a quartet of some of the most virtuosic and innovative young pickers in the country.
More about Jacob Jolliff: As a member of the New England based roots music band Joy Kills Sorrow, Jacob toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe from 2008 to 2014. Even with the group's rigorous schedule, he graduated The Berklee College of Music in 2011 and in 2012, he won the National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, Kansas.
In 2014, after three records, hundreds of shows, and thousands of miles in a 15-passenger van, Joy Kills Sorrow went on an indefinite hiatus. Fortuitously, within a couple weeks of the band's last show, Joliff got a call from the progressive bluegrass jam group, Yonder Mountain String Band and went on his first tour with YMSB in June of that year. He immediately connected musically and personally with the band, and shortly after he became a full-time member. Jacob played with Yonder until the end of 2019, releasing three albums with the group.
In 2022, Jacob was called on by world famous banjo player, Béla Fleck, to tour as part of My Bluegrass Heart. He performed around the country alongside Béla and some of the very best musicians in the genre: Bryan Sutton, Cody Kilby, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Michael Cleveland, Stuart Duncan and Billy Contreras.
Now in 2023, the mandolinist’s main focus is The Jacob Jolliff Band. This ensemble is a group of virtuosic pickers that play Jacob's original instrumentals, as well as showcase his singing. They tour nationally in the US and have also travelled to Scotland and Australia to perform. The group has released two albums, “Instrumentals Vol. 1” in 2018 and “The Jacob Jolliff Band” in 2022.
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July 04, 2023 | 7:00 pm