The Steel Wheels in Charlottesville

The Steel Wheels are an American roots band based in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Led by singer and songwriter Trent Wagler, the group plays Americana, folk and bluegrass shaped by fiddle, banjo, acoustic guitar, upright bass and close vocal harmonies. Its catalog includes the albums Lay Down, Lay Low, Wild as We Came Here and Over the Trees. In 2013, the band founded the Red Wing Roots Music Festival at Natural Chimneys Park in Mount Solon, bringing its own performances together with a multiday program of roots music. The Steel Wheels have also taken their songs to established events including MerleFest in North Carolina and the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in New York.