Barnstar! is a quasi-imaginary bluegrass band featuring Mark Erelli, Zack Hickman (upright bass), Charlie Rose (banjo), Jake Amerding (fiddle) and his father Taylor Amerding (mandolin). Everyone in the band is so busy that they only do two or three gigs per year, usually in noisy bars, where they say they "can't really judge if we sound good enough to have as much fun as do." Despite the infrequency of appearances, Barnstar! was awarded an Iguana Fund Grant from Club Passim (Cambridge MA) to document what had been, until now, merely a series of fleeting, ephemeral music moments in local bars.
