Molly Tuttle in Hiawassee

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.