The Cherryholmes
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The Cherryholmes are a bluegrass music group consisting of members of the Cherryholmes family, including father Jere Cherryholmes and wife Sandy Lee and their kids, Cia Leigh, BJ, Skip, and Molly Kate. Often Jere will say from the stage, Yes, we are the Cherryholmes family. No one is named Cherry, and no one is named Holmes. There's no hyphen, nothin'! Just Cherryholmes.
The story of the family is a somewhat tragic one. Their eldest daughter died in her teens. The family decided to get away for a weekend to maybe get their minds off of the tragedy, and so they decided to go to a Bluegrass Festival. Upon arriving, the realized that there was no regular parking, so they were told to park up near the buses. They saw the shows, and afterwards met Jim and Jesse McReynolds. The Cherryholmes were extremely impressed to see they were so amazingly kind and open, and so decided to stay an extra unscheduled day.
On the way home from the weekend long festival, they were wondeirng what it would be like to start their own family band. Jere took the lead, and assigned the kids an instrument each. Both having a strong background in Celtic music, he and his wife Sandy decided to teach the basics of each instrument to the children. The rest seems to be history. The Cherryholmes were recipients of the International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainers of the Year award for 2005. The most incredible part, it seems, is that theyve been playing for around six year unprofessionally, and all self taught. Molly Kate and BJ are fiddlers, Skip is a guitarist, Cia Leigh is an award winning banjo player, Sandy Lee is on mandolin, and backing up everyone is Jere.
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