1. Rob Ickes is an American dobro player in San Francisco, California.
11 Facts About Rob Ickes
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Rob Ickes has been nominated for numerous Grammy Awards, winning two in 1994 for bluegrass and gospel albums he contributed to.
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Rob Ickes has won twenty three International Bluegrass Music Awards, including winning Resophonic Guitar Player of the Year fifteen times.
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Rob Ickes was named the USA Peter Cummings Fellow in 2010 by United States Artists, an organization that annually honors 50 of America's finest artists across eight disciplines.
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In 2014, Rob Ickes released an album with fellow dobro greats Jerry Douglas and Mike Auldridge, titled Three Bells.
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Rob Ickes has performed and recorded with a "jamgrass acoustic power trio", Three Ring Circle, with Andy Leftwich and Dave Pomeroy.
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Rob Ickes was the youngest dobro player on The Great Dobro Sessions, produced by Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor, which won the 1994 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
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Rob Ickes has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including Merle Haggard, Earl Scruggs, Tony Rice, Charlie Haden, David Grisman, Alison Krauss, Willie Nelson, David Lee Roth, Dolly Parton, Patty Loveless, Peter Rowan, Niall Toner, Claire Lynch, and Mary Chapin Carpenter and the southern gospel group The Dunaways.
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Active in dobro workshops and instruction, Rob Ickes is the founder and producer of Resosummit, a 3-day educational event held in Nashville annually since 2007, with 100 students, 10+ faculty, and key luthiers, with workshops, master classes, and performances.
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Rob Ickes frequently serves as an instructor at music workshops and camps, including NashCamp, Sore Fingers Week, Rockygrass Academy, Wintergrass Academy, and Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp.
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In 2019, Rob Ickes began offering video instruction on Big Music Tent, an online music lessons platform.