North Carolina banjo man Andy Lowe was born into bluegrass music. Andy’s father Rick, a fiddle and mandolin extraordinaire, introduced him to the music when Andy was still young enough to be confined in a car seat and had no means of escape. Rick had been a member of the regional favorite Boot Hill band (featuring a young Craig Smith on the five-string) and it was through the group's bootleg live cassettes that Andy first heard the music would grab him and refuse to release its grip.

While he always enjoyed listening to the sounds of bluegrass interspersed between his grunge and alternative rock passions, Andy didn’t actually pick up a banjo until he was 17 years old as a senior in high school. Dad knew enough to show him the basics of a roll pattern and Andy was off to the races, for better or worse.

Many players were an influence on Andy’s banjo playing. He was lucky enough to meet many of these fantastic banjo pickers as he travelled from festival to festival in his college days: Steve Dilling, Sammy Shelor, and Ron Stewart just to name a few. Taking up the banjo spot, Andy was a member of several groups in the years that followed, including Rockford Express, the Jeanette Williams band, and The Loose Cannons. He released his first solo project, Motley, in 2014.

In 2014, Andy was asked to join Virginia’s Deer Creek Boys, reuniting with brothers Justin and Jason “Sweet Tater” Tomlin and mandolin man Cason Ogden. He remained with the group for six years, playing countless festivals on both the national and international circuits and recording three acclaimed projects with the band under Mountain Fever Records: What Goes Up (2016), Midnight & Dawn (2017), and Chaos Theory (2019).

Andy received top honors at the renowned Galax Old Fiddler's Convention, winning first place Bluegrass Banjo in both 2011 and 2022. He has won several other regional bluegrass banjo contests and eaten more local barbeque than he can recall.

By the time 2023 rolled around, Andy had released his second solo project and his first on Mountain Fever Records, a collection of contemporary-styled bluegrass titled Nervous Energy which features some of the brightest young talent in the industry.

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