Ross Redding

Ross Redding grew up in Concord and quickly developed his love and talent for singing and playing the guitar. When Ross joined the band in 1999 he knew very little about Bluegrass music but he learned to apply his country blues and swing jazz influences to this style of music. What he likes best about the bluegrass idiom is the variety of acoustic instruments all playing together with no room for timing or intonation mistakes. Ross now lives in Modesto with his wife and two daughters.

Chuck Hurd

Chuck Hurd’s family settled in the Long Beach area when he was a young teen. He started playing the banjo at 13 and got hooked on bluegrass banjo when he heard the “Ballad of Jed Clampett” on TV. Chuck taught himself to play the banjo by listening to Flatt and Scruggs and Dillards records and continued to play during his high school and college years. He took a long break from the banjo when he began a career in the Army and then started playing again in 1996. Chuck joined the Fog Valley Drifters in 2003.