Award-winning bluegrass greats Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at Palace Theater in Crossville.

Award-winning Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at Palace Theater on Saturday

Doyle Lawson& Quicksilver — a band with multiple Grammy, Dove and International Bluegrass Music Association awards — brings its traditional bluegrass to the stage of the Palace Theater in Crossville, Tenn., on Saturday, Jan. 6, at 7 p.m. CST.

Lawson is an accomplished mandolin player, vocalist and producer who was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2012.

With nearly 40 albums to their credit, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are seven-time winners of IBMA’s Vocal Group of the Year and were the 2012 Inspirational Country Music Association Vocal Group of the Year.

A native Tennessean, Lawson was honored in February 2012 by Gov. Bill Haslam and the state of Tennessee for his contributions to the state and America through his music (Senate Joint Resolution 467).

Lawson became interested in playing the mandolin at the age of 11, so his father borrowed a mandolin from a family friend and fellow musician. Lawson taught himself how to play the mandolin by listening to the radio and records, and watching an occasional TV show. He later learned to play guitar and banjo.

In his late teens in 1963, Lawson went to Nashville to play banjo with Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys. In 1966, he started playing with J. D. Crowe and the Kentucky Mountain Boys (later called New South). He returned to play the mandolin and sing tenor with Martin in 1969 for six months, and then played again with Crowe until August 1971.

In 1971, Lawson started playing with The Country Gentlemen and remained part of the band for almost eight years. In March 1979, Lawson left the Country Gentlemen with the intention of forming his own band.

Legendary in the bluegrass genre, Lawson has been called a “mandolin virtuoso” with “perfectly silken harmony” by The New York Times.

Tickets to hear Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver start at $ 25.50. For more information: 931-484-6133.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver formed in 1979.