Nathan Biehl ~ Mandolin & Vocals.

Nathan is our Attention Deficit Disorder success story. Biehl's once aimless energy is now harnessed by a maroon Weber Absaroka Mandolin. His vision, raw talent, and colossal knowledge of American music brought the Roadshow together. Sweet sounding cross-picked riffs round out his otherwise very blues-inflected picking. Nate’s perfectionism runs deep and certainly came from his, Naomi’s, and Angie’s mother, Deb Biehl who teaches music in central Montana. Nate graduated with a degree in broadcast production and media arts from the University of Montana and works as the promotions producer for a local television station. Biehl is the Roadshow's patriarchal, musical, spiritual, and intellectual leader.

Angie Biehl ~ Vocals

Angie “The Country Queen” Biehl’s musical taste has been influenced, in part, by her brother, Nathan. She recalls singing along with “The Power of Love” by Huey Lewis and the News (Nate’s tape) with her siblings on Biehl family car trips. Today she croons both lead and harmony vocals with The Broken Valley Roadshow—but her musical talent doesn’t stop there. She graduated with a degree in music education with an emphasis in percussion from the University of Montana. Playing bluegrass has taken her all over the Rockies, but music has taken Angie all over the world: she’s been to South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, India, and 20 of the great United States singing, and playing percussion. It was a fateful Biehl family field trip to Lewistown, Montana where she saw Open Road that whetted Angie’s bluegrass appetite. And now that she’s had a chance to sing with her bluegrass heroes, she’d like to visit Appalachia to check out the place this music came from. Angie plans to study percussion and world music at the Graduate level. In the mean time, she occupies her time teaching percussion and learning about and playing and singing as much bluegrass and folk music that she can.

Caroline Keys ~ Guitar & Vocals

Caroline is a prodigal bluegrass daughter. The earliest recording of Ms Keys, a reel-to-reel tape of her at a very young age, features her singing “Hot Corn Cold Corn” accompanied by her father on banjo. Puberty would lead her to tape MilliVanilli over her Dad’s bluegrass cassettes. During her freshman year of college, she heard Jimmy Martin’s "20/20 Vision" on a mix tape made by her Dad. That experience brought this stray lamb back to the fold. When tax returns rolled in the following spring, she bought a guitar and learned every song on the tape. Caroline was born in Bamberg, SC, and was raised in North Carolina and Virginia in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. For the last seven years, she has bounced around the Rocky Mountain States. Caroline came to Missoula to study creative writing and literature at the University of Montana. When she's not out and about picking bluegrass, she's most likely at home picking her teeth.

Matt Cornette ~ Banjo & Vocals

Matt abuses a Gibson RB-4 Banjo. He picks Scruggs style with hearty dose of Hartford. Born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, Matt journeyed to Boulder, Colorado for his business degree. He first got turned on to bluegrass one night after driving an icy road up the Nederland canyon to a cabin where a group was picking. Banjo was the instrument he decided on and stopped into a music shop to inquire about lessons. The owner of the shop was gone, but the woman sitting in offered to teach Matt, and he soon took his first lesson from Sally Van Meter. Matt has since studied banjo with the likes of Tony Trischka and Pete Wernick. After finishing school in Colorado, he headed north to Jackson, Wyoming where he played with Pete's Pickin' Party until moving to Missoula in 2001. Not only does he smoke on banjo, his skills in the kitchen have the power to melt any woman's heart.

Nate Baker ~ Bass & Vocals

Nate’s first musical memory was the vibration of his father practicing bass drum with the Bitterroot Valley Community Band in Stevensville, Montana. It was witnessing Open Road's sound check at Missoula's Elk's Club in 2003 that switched his bluegrass light bulbs from dim to bright. Nate graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in music. Aside from the time he spends in the Bluegrass world, Nate can be found playing (gasp) jazz around western Montana as well. He has the biggest feet in the Broken Valley Roadshow (the second and third biggest feet in the band belong to girls), the better to keep us grounded, my dears! When he's not on the road keeping all of the shorter members of BVR in sync with the universe, Baker works for Opportunity Resources.

Hillary Wandler ~ Vocals

Hillary joins the band and adds her clear, high tenor voice to round out the sibbling harmony. The oldest of the Biehl girls, Hillary has always been the solid one of the bunch. Hillary joins the group when she can pull herself away from keeping Missoula free and clear as a law clerk at the Missoula County Courthouse. When she's not saving the world or crooning Carter Family style harmonies with her sisters, Hillary is a fantastic mother to her baby girl, Grace.

Naomi Biehl ~ Fiddle & Vocals

Naomi once had a violin teacher tell her that fiddle would ruin her technique. Lucky for all of us, her brother Nate pressured her to rebel and today she is both an accomplished fiddler and classical violinist. Naomi first sang with her siblings while sitting on a bar in Moore, Montana. She, Angie, Hillary, and Nate sang “You are my Sunshine” at a 50th wedding anniversary party when Naomi was three. (Also, this is where Naomi’s taste for Knob Creek originated.) Besides singing and fiddling with The Broken Valley Roadshow, Naomi played the violin in the Missoula and Helena Symphonies and the University of Montana Symphony Orchestra. When she was not ripping it up on the instrument that once belonged to her Great Grandmother, Naomi was studying hard to become a doctor. Her studies are paying off as she has since graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in human biology/pre-med and is off to medical school in California this fall. We miss her terribly, but when we get lonely we can just pop in our newest CD and that big, beautiful fiddle tone fills our ears and our hearts and sets our feet a dancin'.