Claire Lynch is an acoustic pioneer who continually pushes the boundaries of the bluegrass genre. She was the 2013 Female Vocalist of the Year for the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and a 2012 recipient of the United States Artists Walker Fellowship. Her quartet has the innate ability to perfectly interpret the beauty, subtlety, and genre-defying sophistication of Claire’s music.

When she was just 12-years-old, Claire's family moved from Kingston, New York to Huntsville, Alabama. There she began her education in country music and got caught up in the bluegrass revival of the 1970's, joining a band that would later be known as the Front Porch String Band with Claire’s vocals as its centerpiece. She made history leading the Front Porch String Band as it evolved in the ‘80s and ‘90s into “one of the sharpest and most exciting post-modern bluegrass bands on the circuit.”

She went on to a successful solo singing and songwriting career, writing tunes that have been recorded by Patty Loveless, The Seldom Scene, Cherryholmes, Kathy Mattea, the Whites, and Stephanie Davis. In 2005, Lynch formed the Claire Lynch Band and released New Day. It was a hit on the bluegrass charts and earned her IBMA nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Female Vocalist of the Year.” She’s a creative powerhouse at the top of her game, performing with one of the sharpest and most exciting post-modern bluegrass bands of the decade. Her band consists of two-time IBMA-winning bassist-clawhammer banjo player-dancer-percussionist Mark Schatz, soulful mandolinist-guitarist Jarrod Walker, and young string wizard Bryan McDowell, who at 18, won an unprecedented triple win at the Winfield, Kansas National Flatpicking Championship.