Grammy winner Molly Tuttle, the first woman to win the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year Award, and her band Golden Highway will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11 at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

Tuttle is heralded as leading bluegrass into a new era of sound along with such contemporaries as Billy Strings, who performed at Jorgensen in 2019.  Her extraordinary musicianship has led her to collaborations with a variety of musicians such as Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave Matthews, and Nathaniel Rateliff.

American Songwriter Magazine said, “[Molly Tuttle] sings with the gentle authority of Gillian Welch yet plays astoundingly fleet flat-picking guitar like Chet Atkins on superdrive.”

Tuttle won the 2022 Grammy for her “Crooked Tree” album, which also won an International Folk Music Award for Album of the Year. Tuttle’s new recording is “City of Gold,” the first recording completed with her touring band Golden Highway, which includes mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means.

Tuttle spoke with WHUS earlier this week about her music on the Good Music show (Wednesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.) hosted by Ken Best.

Listen to the interview here: