Cliff Wagner
banjo - fiddle - lead vocals
cliff@oldnumber7.net

Cliff Wagner was raised in Greenwood, Mississippi, home of blues legend Robert Johnson. His first instrument was his grandmother's banjo-uke at 7 years old. He started playing 5-string banjo at 11, and also picked up guitar . He played with his father, who played stand-up bass, in a local bluegrass band in Mississippi until he moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. While in Boston he played traditional music in Harvard Square and the subway for a living with partner Nathan Phillips. He and the band moved to NYC. There he started playing banjo in local bluegrass heroes Drinkin' and Cheatin' with mandolinist Bob Grant, formerly of the Bad Livers, now with Tim Graves and Cherokee. He moved to California seven years ago and started his own band. Cliff has also played on several CHM recordings as well as with members of Lost Highway, The Witcher Brothers, and Bluegrass Etc. In addition Cliff has contributed on many New York and Los Angeles Alt. Country recording sessions and independent film scores as well as commercial soundtrack recordings for Mini Cooper and The Sports Network.

He gained national exposure as one of 12 bands out of 6000 applicants on Next Great American Band Show on Fox television October - December 2007, produced by Freemantle Entertainment producers of American Idol.

Cliff plays banjo, fiddle, guitar and dobro, and sings lead for Cliff Wagner and The Old #7, and writes all of their original material.

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 21 Craig moved to Boston, Massachusetts . While living there, Craig was a student of national flat picking and mandolin champion John McGann and a regular at the Bluegrass Pickin' Party at the Cantab Lounge where he was able to jam with folks like Nate Leath, Greg Liszt, Joe Walsh, and Matt Glasier.

Since relocating to the Los Angeles area in the fall of 2005, Craig Ferguson has worked as a session musician on guitar, mandolin, pedal steel, and Dobro. So far, his credits include the TV shows "Cold Case" & "Close to Home". The L.A. premiere of the musical, "Tick, Tick, Boom!"; CMH Records release "Pickin' on Joe Nichols"; Live performances at the House of Blues, Viper Room & The Mint, and studio sessions for songwriters Erik Janson, Allison Sattinger, and Brandon Schott.

Craig Ferguson
guitar - dobro - mandolin
craig@craigfergusonmusic.com

Devitt Feeley
mandolin - vocals

Lucas Cheadle was born in Seattle and grew up on Bainbridge Island. He reolacted to Southern California in 2000 and put hiw wood chopping and kayaking skills to goo use playing bass in the Los Angeles country music scene where he played with Mike Stinson and Randy Weeks.

Lucas also like to create entertaining videos and put them on Youtube. His video of "Old Fire" won the band recognition in the Country Music Video Awards and got them the audition for Fox's The Next Great American Band.