Artist description Compelling Harmonic Voices, Where Folk, Country and Bluegrass Converge.

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Artist History MISTY RIVER (a Portland, Oregon area band) performs a wide variety of Americana music from familiar folk, country and bluegrass favorites to Celtic tunes, haunting ballads and award-winning original songs. Since 1997, Northwest audiences have been captivated by this all-female acoustic quartet (two of whom are mother and daughter) who support their beautiful blend of harmonic voices with unique arrangements of guitar, fiddle, accordion, banjo and bass.MISTY RIVER's 1999-2001 credits include a first place trophy (6/01) for Laura Quigley in Bass at the Washington State Bluegrass Championships. Numerous first place wins in local band and songwriting contests, include the Portland Songwriter's Association and the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival. The group performed at the regional Lilith Fair Talent Search as semi-finalists and won the West Coast Regional spot in the "Best Unsigned Band" contest sponsored by Zideo.com. MISTY RIVER has been amazing audiences & impressing promoters with hundreds of exciting and memorable performances. The band also offers very popular, interactive vocal harmony workshops and workshops for children. Misty River performs at venues that include: folk and bluegrass festivals, state and county fairs, colleges, civic events and city park concerts, numerous theatre and coffeehouse concerts, pubs and restaurants, weddings, and corporate and private parties. Events for 2001 include Wintergrass (Tacoma, WA), NW Folklife (Seattle, WA), The Telluride Bluegrass Festival (band contest), The Strawberry Music Festival (Sonora, CA), The Sisters Folk Festival (OR), The Walnut Valley Festival (Winfield, Kansas), Byron Berline's Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival and Dollywood in Tennessee as well as numerous radio and television appearances. MISTY RIVER consists of Christine Kokesh on fiddle & guitar, Carol Harley on guitar & banjo, Laura Quigley on bass and Dana Abel on accordion & guitar.

Group Members LAURA QUIGLEY - vocals, guitar, bass & rhythm instruments DANA ABEL - vocals, accordion & guitar CHRIS KOKESH - vocals, fiddle & guitar CAROL HARLEY - vocals, guitar & banjo (clawhammer-style)

Albums Rising, Live At The Backgate Stage

Press Reviews "When the time comes for me to walk through the pearly gates, I want to be ushered through by a chorus of angelic harmonies like this. Misty River is a four-woman collective of songstresses who have an incredible talent for precision layering of live voices ... this is music which is heavily steeped in the bluegrass, folk and country traditions. But there's also a modern edge to the music which resembles the neo-bluegrass style of Alison Krauss or EmmyLou Harris." -Minor 7th guitar webzine.

Location Vancouver, Washington - USA

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