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High Cotton
- Monticello, IL
- Bluegrass Band
- Travels up to 200 miles
- Contact for rates
Overview
High Cotton, from the flat prairie land of east central Illinois, aims at the heart of the high-lonesome sound, full of foggy bottoms and smoky mountain tops. It airs out three and four part harmonies on top of scintillating banjo, skirling fiddles and Monroe-style mandolin all played to the insistent rhythms of guitar and doghouse base. From its beginning days as house band for a local production of the musical Cotton Patch Gospel, High Cotton searches out song and instrumental material to zestify your day with hard-driving, tasteful music. If you need some Bluegrass in your life, we invite you to pick High Cotton!
3 Reviews
These guys played a morning worship service for us and they did excellent. Their sound is amazing and you could tell that they had chemistry. They were very organized and could adapt to any changes that we wanted to make last minute. I would recommend Dan and his group for any possible events that could use a great southern sound, or just great music, period.
Bluegrass Band
Response from High Cotton:
Thanks Jack for the nice feedback! Would love to play for you again this year.
Best,
Dan
We hired High Cotton to play at our Dad's Birthday/Retirement party at the Christian County Courthouse earlier this month. We had over 200 people of all ages attend the event and EVERYONE loved the music. Luckliy we had enough room to create an impromptu dance floor because High Cotton is so good and so full of energy that my whole family was up dancing! Thank you High Cotton for helping to make our celebration a memory we will always treasure.
Bluegrass Band
Response from High Cotton:
Thanks Gina! It was great getting to know your friends and family -- we had a great time!
We hired High Cotton for our town festival this year and they were a big hit! We've had lots of positive comments from folks around town asking us to bring them back next year! They really play to the crowd and have a wide variety of songs with bluegrass standards, gospel, and folk. They were also extremely professional and not put-off by a few things that could have caused problems for their performance. Thanks for the great show!
Bluegrass Band
Response from High Cotton:
Thanks Shannon, we really enjoyed working with you all! Would love to come back next year!!
Booking Info
Price Range: Contact for rates
Team
Dan Defend | banjo/vocals |
Rick Rhodes | bass/vocals |
Bill Blickhan | guitar/vocals |
Emily Defend | mandolin/vocals |
Andrew Kaufman | mandolin/vocals |