Tangled Roots

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. A founding member of the band Marty has been the front man, band leader and booking contact since 2005. 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 and bass as well.  In addition to giving lessons in maple plain at LessonPros.com on all of the instruments, vocal, piano, and banjo, and drums.

Chuck also helps business owners advertise their business online using Google, and Facebook and other online marketing concepts.  You can call Chuck for private music lessons at 763-242-8802, or for help advertising on-line call Chuck directly at 651-214-0458. 

"Get your business a massive web presence today"

David Tousley: In 2005 David toured the US and Canada with Nashville based bluegrass band Jimmy Bowen and Santa Fe. He also appears on one of their latest recordings "Stone Fences". As a board member of the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association, David helped establish the Minnesota Flat-picking Guitar and Duet Championships. He continues to work as co-chair of that event. He has been a member of many regional bands including Free Range Pickin', Blue Wolf, The Blue drifters, Jones Tones and Cam Waters. When David isn't playing music he's recording and engineering projects for other local artists. David engineered and co-produced the bands latest release "Life of a Dream".

David is a a professional Computer Consultant and can fix any problem you might be experiencing on your office or home computer.  Call David for all your computer needs directly at 612-741-2995

"Why call a geek when you can hire a pro"

Graham Sones specializes in Historic, Education and Recreational Landscapes. Graham has done amazing work from public schools to snow parks.  Call Graham for your Landscape Architect needs  612-245-2504

"Anything that you pay for bad landscaping is too much"

Graham Sones:

A thirty five year veteran of the five string, he’s a Scruggs style picker that enjoys his craft and working on licks. Born in Rochester, MN, he also has strong family ties in Des Moines, IA and the hills of Arkansas. He grew up with the music and festivals on his mind and in his heart. Music shop owner and fiddler, Bob Loy helped form Graham’s first band that played some local festivals and gigs where he became used to playing and singing on a stage. Since then his pickin’, playin’, singin’ experience just grew and included some equally fine pickers, players and singers along the way. In 2001, he took a spot with Monroe Crossing and put in thousands of miles and hundreds of shows in the three years that followed showcasing at national festivals, concerts, and fairs performing all over the Midwest. More recently he’s filled a spot or two with fine regional bands such as DriveTime, the High 48’s, and now also Haywire. You might even talk him into a lesson or two on the five. Tangled Roots is now his bluegrass home and, in his own words, he is "honored to pick with these guys, its some serious fun, and I hope to be a Tangled Roots member for some time to come…did that just rhyme?"

Mike Hedding: Since discovering the mandolin Mike has been playing with some of the Midwest’s top bluegrass groups. Steeped in the bluegrass tradition of Bill Monroe, Mike now studies with Grammy Award winning mandolin player Mike Compton and teaches workshops in the Midwest. Mike also has an extensive knowledge of music theory and rhythm which plays a large role in how he teaches mandolin. Picking up the banjo a year after the mandolin, Mike has also been traveling around the Midwest playing in the bluegrass group The New North String Band. Mike plays Scruggs/Crowe style as well as melodic banjo. Mike makes his home between Madison, Wisconsin and Minnetonka, Minnesota.