Daniel Donato & Molly Tuttle in Cincinnati

Daniel Donato is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter from Nashville who plays country rock shaped by psychedelia and extended improvisation. He calls the approach “cosmic country,” a name also used by his touring band, and established it on the albums A Young Man’s Country and Reflector. He spent his teenage years playing lead guitar in the Don Kelley Band at Robert’s Western World. Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country later carried that foundation into full-band shows built around his singing, guitar playing and open-ended jams, and he subsequently made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry.

Molly Tuttle is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, born in Santa Clara, California, in 1993. She plays bluegrass and roots music shaped by precise flatpicking, and became the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year award. Her albums include When You’re Ready, Crooked Tree and City of Gold; Crooked Tree won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Following Crooked Tree, Tuttle toured with Golden Highway, the band assembled around the record, and brought the material to the Grand Ole Opry. Their shows center on her guitar and vocals in a bluegrass lineup of banjo, fiddle, mandolin and bass. The group later took City of Gold on the 2024 Down the Rabbit Hole Tour.