Marty Marrone: Marty spent 7 years touring with Special Consensus, from Chicago, and appeared on three of their albums, one of which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Marty will be found playing the six-string guitar in the best Flat-Picking style interspersed with some hard-driving Bluegrass rhythm guitar. He also carries the majority of the band’s vocal chores singing soulful leads and high harmonies. Marty and ex-Tangled Roots mandolin player Chris Silver won the 2005 Minnesota Duet Championships held at the state fair. In December of the same year he released a compilation CD of the tunes he recorded with Special Consensus called “Seven Years with the Special Consensus”.

Chuck Millar: Chuck has a BA in Musical Performance for the fiddle and is one of the top mandolin players in the Upper Midwest. Chuck sings lead and harmony and is also a wizard on guitar, banjo and bass as well.  In addition to teaching all of the instruments he plays he also runs a music retail business on line at www.stringsnthingsusa.com where he offers instruments and accessories. Chuck has recently become the areas newest authorized Martin Guitar dealer.

David Tousley : In 2005 David Toured the US and Canada with Nashville based bluegrass band Jimmy Bowen and Santa Fe.  He also appears on their latest CD
"Stone Fences".  As a board member for MBOTMA, David helped established the Minnesota Flatpicking Guitar and Duet Championships.  He has been a
member of many regional bands including Free Range Pickin, Blue Wolf, Bluedrifters, Jones Tones and Cam Waters just to name a few.  David's excellent sense of pitch, timing and dynamics are attributed to working with multiple bands for many years.

Heath Loy: Heath, a native Minnesotan who grew up in the Rochester area, comes from a family of four generations of fiddlers. At an early age Heath took up the 5-string banjo and has never looked back. Heath spent most of his time growing up riding shotgun with his dad to bluegrass festivals in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. He started playing with Becky Schlegel and True Blue in ’99 and while a member of that band showcased at IBMA, and performed on “A Prairie Home Companion” . Heath and Marty played for 2 years together in a local twin cities band called American Heifer. Heath has often been referred to as the best hard driving banjo player in the upper mid-west and also one of the best, kept secrets in this bluegrass scene. The secret is out and he’s the newest member of Tangled Roots!