Biggest Little Bluegrass Band Members
When you think of these band members, just think of the letter "B", as in basketball, biology, bees,
(snow) boarding, backpacking, and biking. That's amoung the many interest's other than bluegrass that these energtic, motivated and enthused young people spend their time on.

Bethany McHenry
A sophomore at Loyalton High, lead vocalist and guitarist Bethany McHenry is one of two band members from California. Kind of a Renaissance gal, she is the point guard for Loyalton’s varsity basketball team and serves as school treasurer. A guitar student of Charlie Edsall’s, Bethany has been playing and singing bluegrass for many years now, but she started her musical interests at five with piano and later added classical voice. Her summer free time is filled with her horse and show steer, but when the snow flies, she tries her best to add to her snowboarding battle scars. After attending high school, Bethany hopes to go far away to college and then to medical school. 

Nicole Piechocki
Nicole Piechocki is currently a freshman at McQueen High School. Although she’s been playing classical violin and viola for over four years, it wasn’t until this past summer that she picked up bluegrass fiddle. Although she enjoys playing and listening to bluegrass music, she’s also a fan of everything from Alicia Keys to Daughtry to Norah Jones. Music aside, Nicole is also a six-year veteran of the Young Chautauqua and is working towards her Girl Scout Silver Award. Some of her favorite hobbies include eating and working on her nonexistent standup comedy routine.  She plans to go into journalism or editing after high school (assuming she passes biology.)

Tyler Dabritz
A sophomore at McQueen High School, Tyler Dabritz has been playing banjo for two and a half years, working under his teacher, Joey Carmon, a student-of-a-student of Earl Scruggs. Heeding advice not to buy a banjo until he was certain he loved it, Tyler started on a guitar that was strung and tuned like a banjo. Last year he started having so much fun with the band that he gave up skateboarding. Earl Scruggs and Tony Trischka are his banjo player favorites, but he also greatly admires Johnny Cash and Neil Young. Tyler likes to go for walks with his donkey, Ophelia, and to make things in his grandfather’s wood shop, where he has four colonies of bees. His short-term plans include a degree in entomology at UN Reno, with subsequent study of pollinators at UC Davis.