Les Bon Temps Bluegrass Fete

Edgar Loudermilk, a two-time back-to-back SPBGMA “Bass Fiddle Performer of the Year” Award winner (2023 & 2024) , the 2024 Josie Music Awards “Bass Player of the Year” winner, and the 2016 BMAI Male Vocalist of the Year, is the proud bandleader of the Edgar Loudermilk Band. The Pinecastle Recording artist has garnered over 40 industry nominations and awards. 2024 Josie Music Awards “Musician of the Year, Bass/Upright Bass” Award 2024 SPBGMA “Bass Fiddle Performer of the Year” Award 2023 SPBGMA “Bass Fiddle Performer of the Year” Award 2023 SPBGMA “Songwriter of the Year” Nominee 2023 Five-Time Josie Music Awards Nominee 2023 Seven-Time ISSA Music Awards Nominee 2016 BMAI “Male Vocalist of the Year” Award 2016 BMAI “Bass Player of the Year” Nominee 2016 BMAI “Album of the Year” Nominee for “Georgia Maple" 2015 IBMA “Emerging Artist of the Year” Nominee "Among contemporary lead bluegrass singers, Edgar Loudermilk has one of the most distinctive, recognizable, and enjoyable voices in the business. His crisp baritone lead is powerful, cutting, and expressively tuneful. As with Russell Johnson and Junior Sisk, similarly strident voices, you can always find him in the mix and always want to." --Bluegrass Unlimited

Bluegrass and Gospel Music. Devon Avery Banjo-Vocals, Tres Nugent Bass-Vocals, Dennis Stewart Mandolin-Vocals, and Jamey Alwell Guitar-Vocals

For 35 years, Jonathan Causey has ministered across the country sharing his love for the LORD through his music. Throughout the 1980's, along with Jerry and Tammy Sullivan, Jonathan has shared the stage with some of the greatest Country and Gospel Artists such as Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, the Chuck Wagon Gang, the Hinson's, The Isaac's and many more. Now, he shares that experience with his partner and son, Jon Gideon, carrying on the mission and the ministry of the family with fervor and conviction. Jon Gideon has not only excelled as a talented musician but is also a walking miracle and a perfect example of God's healing grace. In 2004, Jon Gideon, was born with spina bifida and has exceeded all medical expectations. In 2019, Jon Gideon, at the age of fifteen, was presented with an award from the state of Alabama for excelling in his health, education, and music.

Growing up in rural Mississippi, music was always a part of the Sibley home. Many of Alan’s earliest memories are of listening to his mother play the piano and accordion while singing some of the same Gospel songs that Alan still sings today. As a small boy, Alan first started trying to play music by learning to play songs on the piano and harmonica. When he was thirteen years old, Alan began learning to play the acoustic guitar and took an interest in other stringed instruments as well. Soon after, he discovered the wonderful sounds of Bluegrass music and decided he would learn to play all of the instruments used in Bluegrass. Alan began his career in Bluegrass music playing mandolin with the Legendary First Family of Bluegrass Gospel “The Sullivan Family” in 2001 at the young age of fifteen. During the first four years of his musical career, Alan toured almost continuously and played Bluegrass Gospel music in thirty states. After leaving “The Sullivan Family” Alan worked with two of the Deep South’s more prominent bluegrass bands, “The Larry Wallace Band” and “Jerry & Tammy Sullivan”. A New Direction After seven years of being a sideman in other groups, Alan decided to form his own band. With musical roots deep in Bluegrass and Gospel music, Alan Sibley & The Magnolia Ramblers have performed at music festivals, concerts and churches across the United States since 2008. Alan has won multiple awards in his home state of Mississippi from the Magnolia State Bluegrass Association. He is a four time recipient of the Male Vocalist of the Year Award and an eight time recipient of the Mandolin Player of the Year Award. His band was also voted MSBA Band of the Year in 2014, 2016 and 2017. Alan Sibley & The Magnolia Ramblers were first featured on the RFD-TV network in 2011 as guests on The Cumberland Highlander’s Show. Alan Sibley & The Magnolia Ramblers now host The Bluegrass Trail, a nationally televised music series on the RFD-TV network. The group has an excellent repertoire consisting of standard and original Gospel material, as well as traditional ballads and instrumentals.