When it comes to bluegrass music, Top Shelf Trio delivers performances to please even the most discerning of listeners. This band rightfully prides themselves on their high-grade instrumentations — and any audience member need only listen a while to understand why. Though they are based in Florida's Big Bend, Top Shelf Trio frequently tours throughout the state of Florida. All three members of the band contribute vocals to the trio's sophisticated selection of songs.

Iris DeMent has been a force as a songwriter and singer for over 30 years. In fact, Rolling Stone recently named Iris's debut album, Infamous Angel, (released in 1992) as "one of the greatest country albums of all time." Over the years, songs by Iris DeMent have been played in films and television shows, and covered by many other artists.

How does one describe a band that has obvious and deep roots planted in old, classic, country music (think Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs) and share a collective sense of humor and thoroughly modern mindset? This is Bill & the Bells.

First, there is no "Bill." Singer and guitarist Kris Truelsen plays Bill on TV and stage. The Belles are fiddler and singer Kalia Yeagle, and  banjo/banjo-uke player and singer Aidan VanSuetendael. Bassist Andrew Small keeps the beat and fills in the bottom, receiving no stage name in the process.

Annie Sellick is a jazz artist from a country music town. She began singing jazz when she was in college, before she knew anything about the iconic jazz singers who came before. While at a bar in Tennessee, she sat in with guitarist Roland Gresham, Sr. and blew the audience away with her "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", landing a job with the band.

After that, she added to her knowledge by attending classes at the Nashville Jazz Workshop, and ultimately made a name for herself as an outstanding  jazz singer in Nashville.

Now based in Portland, Oregon, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Hadley Parrish-Cotton grew up in Jacksonville, Florida. Their parents were active in Jacksonville's music industry during Hadley's youth. The JAX community (along with the works of Tom Waits and Bob Schneider) inspired the young musician to find refuge in playing, singing, and writing songs. Indeed, Hadley's original song "Coastal Kid" focuses on the highs and lows of growing up as a Florida local.

After nearly five decades of playing, touring, and loving together, singer/songwriter couple Robin & Linda Williams are folk music fixtures. The Williamses have amassed a prolific discography that features original songs and folk covers alike. Their first release was their 1975 self-named album Robin & Linda Williams. Their most recent album, A Better Day A-Coming was released in 2021.

As a boy, English-born guitarist Richard Smith was inspired by artists like Chet Atkins and Django Reinhardt and pleaded with his father (a music promoter) to teach him their fingerpicking style. Smith's early career saw the occasional solo show while also playing in a trio with two of his brothers.