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Dean Werner
Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals |
Dean Werner begged his parents for his first guitar
at age eight, and he has never put it down since. He comes from
a long line of musicians — both his grandmothers played piano in church.
Dean has also served as a church choir director, which helps
his position as the Reedy Buzzards' “harmony cop” and vocal arranger.
He studied jazz guitar for five years with Roy Plumb in Madison,
Wisconsin. Dean, a recovering lawyer and graduate of the University
of Wisconsin Law School, teaches piano and guitar in the Seattle
area.
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Ruth Werner
Guitar, Vocals |
Ruth Werner taught herself to play the guitar at age 11, and
by 15 she was singing folk music at open mics and coffeehouses
in her home town of Madison, Wisconsin. She soon abandoned doleful
ballads and dark folk clubs for the broken hearts and cool cowgirl
shirts of hardcore country music, playing and singing in the
influential Madison string band Fifty Fingers. She and Dean married
in 1974 and they moved to the Seattle area in 1996. Ruth makes
and repairs bows for violins, violas and cellos.
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Tom Schwark
Mandolin, Fiddle, Vocals |
Tom Schwark, who plays
mandolin and fiddle in the Buzzards, resides in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where he is a freelance musician. One of Tom's earliest
memories is being able, at five years old, to put his mother's
78-rpm records of Bill Monroe, Tex Ritter, and Gene Autry on
the family's record player all by himself. At seven, Tom heard
his uncle playing the mandolin at family picnics, and he taught
himself to play by age 17. During the 1970s Tom was a member
of the well-known midwest band Grass Food & Lodging.
Tom plays tenor mandola in the historic group, The Milwaukee
Mandolin Orchestra, which started during America's first mandolin
craze in 1900, and he still owns and performs with his grandfather's
Gibson 1924-A snakehead mando.
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Lisa Horngren
Bass |
After falling in love with the band's harmony sound,
Lisa bought a bass and learned to play it in order to
join the Buzzards. She enjoys touring, working in recording
studios, and teaching private music lessons. She used her
ability to teach bass, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle to
bring bluegrass music into school orchestra programs. Recently
her dream came true when she was able to pay tribute to her
hero, Johnny Cash, by playing with his band, The Tennessee
Three, for a celebration of his 50 years in the music recording
business. Lisa was then honored to be asked to join The
Tennessee Three as their regular bass player. She currently
lives near Nashville, Tennessee.
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