The Hazel Project Band came together with a mutual admiration for the music written and recorded by legendary musicians, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. The Crooked River Gathering feels like a perfect stage for the band to pick and sing the crooked songs, lonesome harmonies, and idiosyncratic phrasing of these bluegrass pioneers. Their goal is to stay true to Dickens and Gerrard but also true to themselves and their own musical interpretation of the songs. If you have seen these talented musicians live, you know they meet that goal well!