Sharon Gilchrist began touring the national bluegrass circuit from her home state of Texas for several years before earning a BA in Mandolin Performance at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. For two decades, she has performed with many of the groundbreaking legends in bluegrass and new acoustic music including The Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Scott Nygaard and John Reischman in The Harmonic Tone Revealers, Darol Anger, Tony Trischka, The California Bluegrass Reunion Band, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Uncle Earl, and many others. She is also a respected and influential music educator offering private mandolin instruction and multiple online mandolin courses at Peghead Nation as well as teaching at music camps internationally. From 2004 to 2012, Sharon taught mandolin at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. In 2024, she joined the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project as a featured artist and co-producer on their second album, which will be released in early 2025. Sharon lives in Nashville, Tennessee and currently performs with the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project Trio.
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