Mark Lavengood

Mark Lavengood Trio with Dutcher Snedeker on keys and Loren Kranz on drums Mark Lavengood comes out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the way a lot of good music does: from festival fields and late-night picking, from friends, from a long habit of saying yes. He won the dobro competition at RockyGrass in 2012 and spent seven years with Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys, carrying his resonator from Telluride to Stagecoach to Celtic Connections to IBMA's World of Bluegrass. He sat in with Billy Strings in a 140-seat lounge in 2015 and at Van Andel Arena in 2023, and in August 2026 he hosted and MC'd Billy's inaugural Ionia Freak Fair for 28,000 people. He fronts the Mark Lavengood Band and Prine Time, runs The Bear Den studio, and co-founded Smiling Acres Music Festival. Billy calls him "a great songwriter and a master on the dobro."