SELF PORTRAIT

■ I’M HEADED BACK TO ARKANSAS: In October. I’m supposed to bring Wood Box Heroes to open up the new park in Springdale. ■ JENEE FLEENOR DAY IS: June 27. I’ve missed it the past couple of years!

■ A COUPLE OF THE FEMALE MUSICIANS I GREW UP ADMIRING: Fiddle player Wanda Vick, who I grew up seeing on TNN’s Nashville Now. She’s an amazing musician — now a dear friend — but on those TV shows she always played the heck out of her instrument and looked like she loved what she was doing on camera. Also, Alison Krauss was a huge influence on me growing up. I also am a huge Bonnie Raitt fan!

■ MY ADVICE FOR GETTING THROUGH NERVES ON STAGE: Just breathe. It’s really important. It can slow your heart rate down as you breathe through it.

■ MY SCARIEST MOMENT ON LIVE TV: Playing with Ricky Skaggs, one of my heroes, and Emily Ann Roberts. We were performing “Country Boy,” one of the fastest bluegrass songs you can play, and it was all live. Once the song starts, you’re off to the races and muscle memory kicks in.

■ MY BLUEGRASS BAND IS: The Wood Box Heroes and it’s an all-star cast of bluegrass musicians, including Barry Bales, Josh Martin, Seth Taylor, Matt Menefee. It was always a dream of mine to be a part of a super group of sorts like this, and it fell in our lap the last year, year and a half after playing some gigs up in Michigan.

■ THE HARDEST PART OF FORMING THE BAND WAS: Coming up with the band name. It took months!

■ SOMETHING SPECIAL THAT I WISH PEOPLE GOT TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE: Being behind the scenes of “The Voice” to see all that goes into their shows … the hair, the makeup, the glam team, your wardrobe.