Soggy Prairie

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Robin Starkenburg

Soggy Prairie (from left): Emily Jones, the bass player, Jim Kvalheim, Kodey Feiner, Erin Barnard.

press release: Five instruments, four voices, and one fancy microphone. We’ve been working on this bluegrass thing since 2002, and we think we’ve almost figured it out. We bring a high-energy attitude to new, traditional, and original Bluegrass tunes. Kodey Feiner brings a powerful unique lead vocal sound and a strong right hand strum. Jim Kvalheim proves to be a driving force on the mandolin, and has been sharing harmonies with Kodey for over fifteen years. Newcomer Erin Barnard, a classically trained violist, brings a strong fiddle sound, and fits in nicely on the top end of the harmonies. Kristin Kvalheim provides the ever important three-finger Bluegrass banjo sound. The bass player, an original band member, brings more energy than you’ve ever seen on an upright, and a deep bass voice to round out the band’s four-part harmony.