Keegan Day, III. is the band’s lead singer and guitar player. He got his start by attending his first bluegrass festival at age 9 months of age and has loved the music ever since. He started on bass in middle school, and once he was bit by the Flatt & Scruggs bug, he became very passionate about the guitar. He even spent a gap year at the Roberto Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, AZ, and built 2 guitars of his own at age 18.
As a 16 and 17-year-old, he was part of IBMA’s Kids on Bluegrass Program and performed in a National Kids Bluegrass Band in Raleigh, NC throughout the week of World of Bluegrass in 2018 and 2019.
As the band’s lead singer you will notice his major influences come from Don Reno, and also Lester Flatt and Karl Shiflett, which include their 2-finger thumb picking style.
In his spare time, he is a sought after authority on Ancient Burying Grounds in New England, spending many hours restoring headstones and speaking at historical events.
Simon Brogie was born near the bottom of Hosmer Mountain. He started listening to Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs before he could remember, being drawn into bluegrass music by watching his Dad play guitar in a bluegrass band. At around age 5, he picked up the mandolin, and 7 years later, he started learning the 5-string banjo.
In his mid-teens, Simon played in 5 different bands, including the Tri-State Rounders and Chris Henry & the Hardcore Grass.
Simon also plays guitar, mandolin, and bass, and sings baritone and lead in the band. Outside of music, Simon owns his own trucking business.
Tom Bowman is the bass player and sings baritone for the band -He started playing music by learning on his grandmother’s porch as a young teen in Hollywood, Maryland. Self-taught, he was soon sitting in with the neighborhood musicians for house parties.
Tom has been a fixture on the bluegrass music scene since the early 80s, playing bass for numerous bands in need of a steady beat and tasteful walking tones.
Tom has toured Europe with Amy Gallatin, played with the Traver Hollow, and also with several other bands in New England over his long career in Bluegrass Music.
When you meet Tom, you’ve met a friend for life. In non-musical life, being on the water is his second love. At work he is operating the drawbridge on the Connecticut River or captaining fine tour boats.
Cathy Day began performing at age 10 with her parents and sister in the Rose City Bluegrass Band, which played numerous shows throughout the Northeast US during the 80s.
While she could be found playing any instrument, her fiddling is still the most sought after for performances and studio work in the New England area. She was also a member of the award-winning all-girl band, “SassyGrass” and New Hampshire-based band, “Marcy Hill,” and “The Bill Thibodeau Band.” For over 20 years, every March, she plays with”Cashel Rock,” an Irish band.
Cathy finds a lot of joy spreading bluegrass by teaching at Bluegrass music camps. She is a Pharmacist and college lecturer by day, a Mom by night, and does all things bluegrass on the weekends.
She is a point person for the Connecticut Bluegrass Association. She also handles the band’s bookings. 860-333-4845 hosmermountainboys@gmail.com
Red Day has been a special guest at the Hosmer Mountain Boys shows during his early years, but now at age 15, he will be playing mandolin as a full member.
He learned his chops (and more) as a student of Silas Powell of West Virginia, one of today’s foremost Bill Monroe mandolin style experts. Red is heavily influenced by Bill Monroe, and also by Jethro Burns.
When not at school, Red can be found earning cold, hard cash doing manual labor around the county to fund his vintage instrument collection.