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Formed in June of 2011, the band was
only 4 months into the process of
playing together when they won the
MBOTMA (Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time
Music Association) Race for a Place band
contest. No Grass Limit puts on an
electric performance that you will not
want to miss. They have shared the stage
with The Lonesome River Band, Del
McCoury, Sierra Hull, Jim Van Cleve,
Alison Krauss, Michael Cleveland, Ralph
Stanley, Claire Lynch, Josh Williams,
Chris Jones and The Night Drivers, The
Nashville Bluegrass Band, Mountain
Heart, Trampled By Turtles, Special
Consensus and the list goes on and on.
In Jan of 2014, No Grass Limit recorded
their first all original album in
Nashville with Grammy Award Winner Randy
Korhs. Featuring: Chuck Millar, Clint
Birtzer, Sandi Millar, Vaughn
Asselstine, Mike Hedding, with special
guest Dustin Benson from Special
Consensus appears courtesy of Compass
Records, Randy Kohrs, Sally Berry
(Rhonda Vincent’s daughter), Mike
Radovsky, Tim Crouch & Scott Vestal. Not
only headlining festivals and concerts,
No Grass Limit is being played on radio
stations all around the world their
success has led them into the hearts of
millions. Even making it to the #2 slot
for most radio downloads in Oct. 2014
right under Larry Cordle’s #1 slot for
his All-Star duets album. No Grass
Limits song “Good Ole Days of Bill
Monroe” made it to #1 as a single.
The No Grass Limit album titled
“Originals” is all songs written by
Chuck and Sandi Millar. Songs about love
like “Broken Hearted Blues”, “One More
Chance” and “Me and You” to a song about
loss such as “A Letter to My Savior” and
even a couple of good murder tunes
“Shackles and Heart of Stone, going from
one extreme to the next this album takes
you on a journey. There is even a
tribute song to the Father of Bluegrass
music, Bill Monroe, "Good Ole Days of
Bill Monroe" Here is a little history on
the song: The original version was
written with 45 Bill Monroe songs
titles. No Grass Limit needed a radio
version so it got cut back from about 9
minutes to 3 minutes and 20 seconds. “We
are thrilled with the great response on
this song. The main thing is
bluegrassers can relate to this song.
They recognize the Bill Monroe song
titles and maybe that triggers a memory
of playing or hearing one of his songs
at a jam or on a stage. Everybody in
bluegrass knows at least one Bill Monroe
song even if they don’t know it is a
Bill Monroe song. I used to sing his
songs around the campfire jams when I
first got into bluegrass and didn’t even
know they were his songs.” says Sandi
Millar, guitarist and lead singer for
the band.
More info the band members:
Chuck and Sandi Millar founders of No
Grass Limit and Lesson Pros (MN based
music lessons program), started as
performing artists, playing all over the
United States at festivals, private &
corporate parties, weddings, coffee
houses, parks & theaters. They have been
featured in numerous newspapers
articles, radio, television and
magazines and have won many competitions
with their music, including countless
1st place titles in fiddling and trick
fiddling contests. As a duet took 2nd
place in the MN State fair duet
competition and now becoming finalists
in songwriting contests.
After spending most of their lives on
the concert stage, Chuck and Sandi felt
a strong need to give back to musicians
of all ages. In 2002, they came up with
an idea to start a music lesson program,
with Chuck's talent and knowledge of
teaching and Sandi's business sense they
made the perfect fit to create a
wonderful music lesson program. The
result was Lesson Pros (www.lessonpros.com),
a group of teachers offering private &
group music lessons to students of all
ages and abilities at the Lesson Pros
studios, community education programs,
churches and online worldwide. Lesson
Pros has currently taught over 3000
students of ages 4 to 98. Minnesota’s
music culture has greatly been expanded
and broadened, by the Millar’s, which is
truly admired.
Chuck and Sandi are described as musical
innovators who cross musical genres and
boundaries with their songs and music.
Fans rave about their blend of harmonies
and musicianship and with this All-Star
cast, you are sure to be pleased with
the outcome of No Grass Limit’s new
“Originals” album.
Chuck Millar with his uncompromising
integrity, exceptional talent and
unwavering leadership started teaching
at an early age of 17; he has continued
to showcase his talents on and off stage
by helping many new aspiring students to
be great musicians and performers. He
teaches all of the following
instruments: guitar, violin, fiddle,
mandolin, bass, vocal, music theory and
performance. When the national bands
come to MN Chuck is the guy that is
hired to teach whatever instrument is
needed for Jam Camps. He has
single-handedly changed 1000s of
students lives, by teaching and hosting
workshops. He has also been a leader of
Grass Seeds Academy, a MBOTMA (Minnesota
Bluegrass and Old Time Music
Association) music program that
encourages kids to learn to play
instruments and form bands. This program
has grown to about 150 kids every year.
Currently performing with No Grass
Limit, Chuck also plays with the
nationally recognized band "Tangled
Roots" which has released three
recordings "Angel From Montgomery" &
Valley Road" & "Life of a Dream".
Sandi Millar stands alone as the west
metro’s premier guitar, vocal, and
performance instructor. From her mastery
on vocals and harmonies to a deep
connection with audiences, her music has
had a profound effect on many. Sandi’s
talents and accomplishments have been
recorded on seven CDs, plus multiple
harmony backups recording which have
been played on radio all around the
world. Sandi, approached six different
Community Education Programs was hired
to help with instructing students on
guitar, vocal & performance. After a few
years of teaching she has truly
developed a love of helping students
achieve all their musical dreams.
Currently working on her songwriting
craft, Sandi is starting to get
recognize as MN top songwriters placing
as a finalist in numerous songwriting
contests for her songs “Good Ole Days of
Bill Monroe”, “Shackles” and “Me and
You”.
21-year-old Clint Birtzer, is the 2013,
2011, and 2009 Minnesota State
Flatpicking Guitar Champion. Clint,
along with Jesse Moravec of the Sawtooth
Brothers, also captured the 1st place
title in the 2011 MN Duet Singing
Championships. In addition to music,
Clint is passionate about The Great
Outdoors and hunts as much as music and
school allow him. He has completed an
associates degree at Inver Hills
Community College and is now studying
professional journalism at the
University of Minnesota. He works at the
Minnesota Daily, the U of M's campus
paper, as a reporter, but is planning on
turning his music into a profession
after college.
Mike Hedding has been playing guitar,
banjo and mandolin with some of the
Midwest’s top bluegrass groups. Steeped
in the bluegrass tradition of Bill
Monroe, Mike now studies with Grammy
Award winning mandolin player Mike
Compton and teaches workshops in the
Midwest. Mike also has an extensive
knowledge of music theory and rhythm
which plays a large role in how he
teaches. Mike has also been traveling
around the Midwest playing banjo in the
bluegrass groups, The New North String
Band & The Puddle Jumpers. Mike’s banjo
playing is now being heard on bluegrass
radio stations across the country.
Vaughn Asselstine started her musical
journey when she was eight years old,
learning to tickle the ivories. From
there she moved on to squeezing the
accordion and strumming the guitar.
During the early 70s she played with the
Alive and Trucking Theater Company and
along the way to becoming a
college-educated computer geek she snuck
in some study of jazz and music theory.
Vaughn is also a rhythm tap dancer who
danced for many years with Keane Sense
of Rhythm, performed onstage at the
Chicago Human Rhythm Project and taught
adult rhythm tap classes. Next she
dabbled in West African drumming, taking
up the djembe under the tutelage of
Kenne Thomas. A few years ago Vaughn
started playing the bass. She fell in
love with the unique combination of
rhythm and melody that the bass brings
as the foundation of many types of
music. She has performed with multiple
old-time, bluegrass, Cajun and jazz
groups in Minneapolis and is
enthusiastic about playing with all of
them.
Above all, the members of No Grass Limit
value the people they meet and the
special times had by all at every
festival and event they been to or
played. Let's help make new memories
together with No Grass Limit at their CD
Release Party Friday, January 9th at
Dulono’s in Mpls.
For Bookings and Scheduling Lessons:
Band -
www.nograsslimit.com
bookings@lpbookingagency.com
Music Lessons -
www.lessonpros.com
info@lessonpros.com
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