Matt Wingate

Poor Claire Lynch. She's had to go through the Summer without her bass player, Mark Schatz, who has been out touring with Nickel Creek. He's due back in the middle of September, but now comes news that guitarist Matt Wingate

A lot of fine pickers are nominated for IBMA awards every year, and a chosen few get to cross the stage and pick up a statue. But with five or six nominees in a category, that still leaves plenty of

This post is a contribution from David Morris, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. See his profile here. Photos for this post are from Roy Swann. Anyone giving a close listen to Claire Lynch’s latest album, Whatcha Gonna Do, is sure

Claire Lynch has announced that Matt Wingate is her new guitar player. He steps into the void left when Claire's long-time guitar man Jim Hurst stepped aside, leaving young Mr. Wingate with some extra large shoes to fill. But based on