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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley
Live Oak Music Festival
El Chorro Regional Park
State Hwy 1 @
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

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GRAMMY® Award winners Rob Ickes (15-time IBMA Resophonic Guitar Player of the Year) & Trey Hensley (2023 IBMA Guitar Player of the Year) LIVE at the Live Oak Music Festival on Fri. June 13, 2025 at 7 p.m.!
"Two musical phenoms..." -NPR
“Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley shred…” -Rolling Stone
“An acoustic firestorm…who are changing the rules” -Vintage Guitar
“Hot-shot guitar picking…
Steel-string bluegrass with all the intensity of rock ’n’ roll…” -Acoustic Guitar
“Two of the finest musicians playing today” -No Depression
Rob Ickes is the most decorated musician in IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) history as a 15-time IBMA Resophonic Guitar Player of the Year honoree and former co-founder of the bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway. Trey Hensley is the 2023 IBMA Guitar Player of the Year—a guitar prodigy referred to by Acoustic Guitar magazine as "Nashville's hottest young player." Together, Rob and Trey are a powerhouse acoustic duo that has electrified the acoustic music scene. Rob and Trey have been referred to as "dual lightning strikes in a bottle" by Guitar Player magazine, and "the Swiss Army Knife of roots music" by WMOT's Craig Havighurst.
GRAMMY® Award winners Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley LIVE at Dosey Doe Breakfast, BBQ & Whiskey Bar in The Woodlands, TX on May 1, 2025! Join Rob Ickes (15-time IBMA Resophonic Guitar Player of the Year and the most decorated musician in IBMA history) & Trey Hensley (2023 IBMA Guitar Player of the Year called "Nashville's hottest young player" by Acoustic Guitar magazine) for an unforgettable night of music. Together, they have been referred to as "two musical phenoms" by NPR, "bluegrass aces" who "shred" by Rolling Stone, "two of the finest musicians playing today" by No Depression, "an acoustic firestorm who are changing the rules" by Vintage Guitar magazine, "dual lightning strikes in a bottle" by Guitar Player magazine, and "the Swiss Army Knife of roots music" by WMOT's Craig Havighurst.
Noted for their guitar prowess (Ickes & Hensley were invited to perform at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 in Los Angeles alongside some of the world's greatest guitarists), white-hot picking, world class musicianship, soulful stone country vocals and top-shelf songwriting, Ickes & Hensley cleverly meld bluegrass, country, blues, rock, jam grass, and more to create a signature musical blend that defies restrictions of genre.
On Feb. 2, 2025, Ickes and Hensley each won GRAMMY® Awards as members of The Taj Mahal Sextet for Best Traditional Blues Album ("Swingin' Live At The Church In Tulsa"). Noted for their guitar prowess (Ickes & Hensley were invited to perform at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 in Los Angeles alongside some of the world's greatest guitarists), white-hot picking (as Acoustic Guitar puts it: "hot-shot guitar picking...steel-string bluegrass with all the intensity of rock 'n' roll"), world class musicianship, soulful stone country vocals and top-shelf songwriting, Ickes (former co-founder of the bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway) & Hensley cleverly meld bluegrass, country, blues, rock, jam grass, and more to create a signature musical blend that defies restrictions of genre.
Influenced by repertoires as diverse as The Allman Brothers Band, Earl Scruggs, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Del McCoury and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rob & Trey have collaborated with Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Taj Mahal, Tommy Emmanuel, Little Feat, Marty Stuart, Steve Wariner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Leftover Salmon, Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, David Grisman, Jorma Kaukonen, and Hot Tuna, among many others. Rob & Trey's latest critically acclaimed, song-centric album, "Living In A Song"—produced by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer/engineer/songwriter Brent Maher (The Judds, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner)—is available now.
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Diane
March 24th 2025
The Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley show was great. This duo is so talented. This is our second concert for them and we enjoy listening to them.
The theatre and staff is great here. You will enjoy going there.
We loved everything about this event. Thank you to everyone who had a part in this event.
Jonesborough, TN@Jackson Theatre
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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley Biography
Take a 15-time IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Resophonic Guitar Player of the Year and a Tennessee-born guitar prodigy called “Nashville's hottest young player” by Acoustic Guitar magazine, and you have Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, a powerhouse acoustic duo that has electrified the acoustic music scene around the world. Known for their white-hot picking and world class musicianship, as well as their soulful stone country vocals, the GRAMMY®-nominated duo cleverly and uniquely melds bluegrass, country, blues, rock, jamgrass, and string band music of all kinds to create a signature blend of music that defies restrictions of genre. NPR has called Ickes and Hensley "two musical phenoms"; Vintage Guitar raved they're an "acoustic firestorm" who "are changing the rules"; Acoustic Guitar describes their sound as "steel-string bluegrass with all the intensity of rock 'n' roll" and No Depression observed they're "two of the finest musicians playing today." Ickes and Hensley have shared the stage or collaborated with Tommy Emmanuel, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, David Grisman, Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Stuart, and Steve Wariner—all admirers of the duo. Ickes, former founding member of bluegrass "supergroup" Blue Highway and highly sought-after Dobro master, has graced the recordings and concerts of artists such as Earl Scruggs, Merle Haggard, Alison Krauss, Tony Rice and more. Hensley, who earned his first IBMA Guitar Player of the Year nomination in 2020, made his Grand Ole Opry debut at the age of 11 (thanks to an invite from Marty Stuart with Earl Scruggs...the video of the event has surpassed 1 million views on YouTube) and has appeared on stage with the likes of Johnny Cash, Peter Frampton and Old Crow Medicine Show. All three of the Compass Records albums released by Ickes and Hensley have received widespread acclaim, including their debut BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN, which garnered a GRAMMY® nomination, and the combo's most recent release WORLD FULL OF BLUES, which features collaborations with Vince Gill and Taj Mahal. Ickes and Hensley recently teamed with guitar master Tommy Emmanuel for a very special EP, TOMMY EMMANUEL - ACCOMPLICE SERIES VOL. I WITH ROB ICKES AND TREY HENSLEY. The EP was released May 7, 2021 to critical acclaim. The three high-powered guitar virtuosos performed together on the Grand Ole Opry on May 8, 2021 and from famed Nashville venue 3rd & Lindsley on May 9, 2021 via worldwide broadcasts to celebrate the release of the project. Ickes and Hensley are busy at work on their fourth duo record for Compass Records with GRAMMY®-winning producer Brent Maher.
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