Skip Cherryholmes
Best known for
Guitar
Skip Cherryholmes is a California-born guitarist and harmony singer whose family band Cherryholmes won 2005 IBMA Entertainer of the Year before disbanding in 2011 — a co-founder of Sideline (with Steve Dilling and Jason Moore) and current member of Lou Reid & Carolina.
- Member of the family band Cherryholmes (1999–2011); started on mandolin at age 9, later switched to guitar.
- Cherryholmes won IBMA Entertainer of the Year (2005) and earned 5 Grammy nominations during their 12-year run.
- Family relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue bluegrass full-time after forming the band.
- Toured roughly 200 nights per year during the Cherryholmes era; band's debut album hit #1 on Billboard Bluegrass.
- Co-founder of Sideline (2011) with Steve Dilling and Jason Moore; the band became his main full-time gig.
- Also performs with Lou Reid & Carolina.
- Married into the Dilling family — Steve Dilling is his father-in-law.
- Endorsing artist for Bourgeois Guitars (D-150 and A-350 Archtop); known as a masterful arranger.