BOB EVERHART

Bob is the President of the National Traditional Country Music Assn., a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation since 1975. He has performed old-time authentic traditional country, folk, and bluegrass music for most of his life, and professionally for the past 50 years. He recorded six LP's for the prestigious Smithsonian/Folkways label, one of them, "Time After Time," nominated for a Grammy personally by Moses Asch. Three of the LP's were re-released on foreign labels (Westwood of Great Britain); (Folk Variety of Germany); and (Country Circle of Austria). He also recorded a special session in Ireland, as well as Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Germany, and had CD's of those recordings released in Europe. The Canadian company, Condor Records, has just released a new CD by Bob & Sheila entitled "20 American Classics." A music-video was shot in Mexico of Bob's own composition "No One Comes Near," and a new compilation video from his various television shows is in the works. Bob & Sheila have recorded six cassettes (also available from Prairie Music Records in CD format, please see the Prairie Music page in this website).

Bob and Sheila were awarded "Entertainer of the Year" in Cologne, Germany, and their recording of "Dear Grand Ole Opry" reached No.10 on the European Radio Playlists.

Bob has made over 27 concert tours of Europe. The couple will make their next one in the fall of 2008. In 1998 the couple performed on the "American Traditional Music & Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria, and were invited to perform again on the same festival in 2000 in Dublin, Ireland. They are listed with the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as artists available to the Embassy and Diplomatic Corps, internationally.

Bob created and host-produced the successful PBS television show "Old Time Country Music," which aired in 22 markets, for seven years. He also hosted and produced a syndicated radio program called "Old Time Music Hour" on eight radio stations in the midwest for seven years. This program is going to be re-instituted in 2006. His current project is another hosted radio program called "Bus Stop," an interesting combination of Greyhound bus travelers and old-time music. He is also working on another television program called, "Tradition." He and Sheila were recently recipients of a "Lifetime Achievement Award," from World Music Events; the Kitty Wells/Johnny Wright Leadership in Country Music Award; and the "Tennessee Ambassador of Goodwill" from Tennessee Governor, Don Sundquist. Bob & Sheila are members of "America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame," and are members of "Who's Who In America," "Who's Who In Country Music," and "Who's Who In International Music." Bob is a Kentucky Colonel, and has performed with some of the best known names in country and bluegrass music. His own association, the NTCMA has been conducting tours and programs around the world for a number of years, and presented their first "American Traditional Music & Dance Festival" in Vienna, Austria, in 1998.

Bob is proficient on 12-string guitar, harmonica, and lead vocals, and also plays a number of obscure stringed instruments featured in the Pioneer Music Museum.

SHEILA EVERHART

Sheila has been Bob's wife since 1992 (they have one child, a daughter Bobbie Lhea born Oct 3, 1996). Sheila accompanies Bob on upright double acoustic bass, fiddle, and clog dances in an early Ozark Mountain style taught to her by her grandparents. She gives workshops in all areas (Bob does workshops on 12-string guitar, harmonica, music preservation work, and effective festival management).

Sheila maintains the couples homes in Walnut and Anita, Iowa, as well as their winter home in Veracruz, Mexico. She co-produces the radio program "Old Time Music Hour" which is taped at their performance center, the Oak Tree Opry, in Anita, Iowa, and she also books the talent for that program. She is President of Prairie Music Records, and is a professional photographer with photos appearing in Bluegrass Unlimited, Bluegrass Now, Tradition, and numerous other music related magazines. She was first runner-up in a National Geographic Magazine contest.

You can find more information about Bob & Sheila by clicking up "NTCMA & Bob & Sheila Everhart" under 'articles.'

If you are interested in booking this delightful Prairie Music Tour with Bob & Sheila Everhart, please contact them

FIRST - by e-mail bobeverhart@yahoo.com

SECOND - by telephone voice mail 712-762-4363

THIRD - by mail: POBox 492, Anita, Iowa, 50020