Legendary fiddler Darol Anger is the de facto leader of Cascadia Yulegrass.  Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. He developed his signature sound through working closely with many of the world’s great improvising string musicians, among them Stephane Grappelli, Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor, Bela Fleck, Tony Rice, David Grisman, and Vassar Clements.
Anger has produced dozens of critically lauded recordings since 1977 which have featured his compositions and performances. His current group, The Republic Of Strings, breaks new territory for bowed string instruments and presents young talent. With the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet, Anger developed and popularized new techniques for playing contemporary music on string instruments. His groups The Republic of Strings, The Fiddlers 4, Psychograss, and the Anger-Marshall Duo feature his compositions and arrangements. His group Montreux was the original musical model for the New Adult Contemporary radio format. The David Grisman Quintet forged a new genre of acoustic string band music with Darol’s “fertile inventiveness, surprising touches and technical mastery” often in the forefront.

Sharon Gilchrist got her start in a five-year stint with the Texas-based Blue Night Express, a bluegrass band that included Martie and Emily Erwin. In their next configuration they became the Dixie Chicks. After touring another year with them, Sharon headed for Nashville where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mandolin Performance from Belmont University while moonlighting with a number of Nashville-based acts on upright bass and mandolin. In 2005, she joined Peter Rowan & Tony Rice. Her vocal harmonies and mandolin picking adorn their acclaimed 2007 Rounder release, “Quartet.” Sharon has also toured with the all-girl old time band, Uncle Earl, and currently teaches mandolin at the College of Santa Fe.

>> Mandolin Cafe interview with Sharon
>> VIDEO: Rowan/Rice Quartet Live in North Carolina

Samson Grisman is a 20-year-old upright bass player and teacher from Mill Valley, CA. Son of mandolin legend, David Grisman, he began playing a cello tuned as a bass at age 4.  Growing up with a recording studio in the house, Sam was immediately exposed to his father’s eclectic musical tastes and was surrounded with musicians including masters such as Edgar Meyer, Martin Taylor, Ralph Stanley and Del McCoury. Although initially it was a frustrating and daunting task, he found himself playing with and learning from a wide variety of amazing musicians.

Sam began playing professionally at the age of 12 with the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience. In addition to touring with DGBX, Sarah Jarosz, Eric Robertson & The Boston Boys, and The Deadly Gentlemen, Sam has recently been on the road with Darol Anger, Scott Law, and Sharon Gilchrist, and Bearfoot, and has shared the stage with The Del McCoury Band, JD Crowe, Tim O'Brien, The David Grisman Quintet, Darol Anger & Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, The Sam Bush Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, Old & In The Grey, Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks, Jesse McReynolds, Curly Seckler ( of Flatt & Scruggs) and many others. Samson has played hundreds of concerts and festivals in the United States, Canada, Scotland, England, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden and has taught at camps in Nehalem Oregon and Pagosa Springs Colorado. Samson brings a solid foundation in traditional American roots music to the bands that he plays in and hopes to continue exploring the boundaries of where this music can go.

>> VIDEO: DGBX at Delfest, 2010

Scott Law embodies the ideal of the American Guitar Master; a brilliant and versatile instrumentalist, Law has connected onstage with many contemporary masters of American music, among them Phil Lesh & Friends, Darol Anger, String Cheese Incident, Melvin Seals, Railroad Earth and many others. Scott is a founding member of The Cascadia Project. Scott’s alternately chiming and grinding melodic concept bears favorable comparison with everyone from the early Telecaster masters to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Jerry Garcia, creating a style that bears his unique stamp yet freely ranges over the entire history of rock, jazz and bluegrass guitar. Scott sings timeless songs that connect easily with listeners, propelled by his rare rhythmic concision and deep groove. Law has just released a new solo album, "Living Room" in February 2009 and debuted a second studio release, “Love & Repair” with Strings For Industry during summer. Scott collaborates frequently with pioneering violin master Darol Anger (who plays electric 5-string fiddle in S4i) and whose adventurous musicality is universally admired. Law released an album with String Cheese Incident's Bill Nershi and his wife, Jilian eponymously titled "Honkytonk Homeslice" in 2005 and worked with Jerry Garcia Band's B-3 organ legend, Melvin Seals from 2001 to 2003. Law was also a member of the award winning Seattle instrumental world-music group, Hanuman who put out two recordings between 1999 and 2001 and sold over 8000 copies independently.

Law has scored and performed music for film and television, including an original song for the CBS primetime feature "Viva Laughlin" in 2007 and scores for 2 full-length documentaries by The Columbia Land Trust and Tom's Of Maine. He is a dedicated and experienced music educator, having taught at various workshops, schools, festivals and private sessions throughout his career.

As a young child, Scott grew up hearing the likes of Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Johnny Cash, Big Mama Thornton, the gospel of Mahalia Jackson and many others from his father's vast collection of LP's. Despite being enamored with the guitar from his earliest memory, Scott found his way first as a drummer playing along with Beatles records in fourth grade and "jamming" with friends. He came around to the six-string as a teenager (age of 15) and then settled in for the music-making long haul, trying styles of all stripes in a host of groups, many with horrible names. Two years of music theory study at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and an increasingly active gig schedule began to open up a career that has led to him touring and performing all over the world and working with many legendary artists for nearly three decades while steadily developing his own original repertoire.

>> VIDEO: Republic of Strings covering Hard Times Come Again No More
>> VIDEO: 2/6/10 Cascadia Music Series at The Woods (various)