Adam Steffey

Adam Steffey is surely one of the most recorded mandolinists over the past 15 years or more. He is a 5 time Grammy Winner and has been voted Mandolin Player Of The Year and unprecedented 9 times by the International Bluegrass Music Association. He is an adjunct faculty member at East Tennessee State University as a mandolin instructor in the ‘Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Department’ and has been an instructor at a variety of workshops and camps - including the famed Mandolin Symposium held each year in California.

He has been a member of some very influential acts including Alison Krauss, The Isaacs, and Mountain Heart. Adam is currently a member of The Boxcars who were recognized as the ‘Emerging Artist Of The Year’ in 2011 and have been awarded ‘Instrumental Group Of The Year’ in both 2011 and 2012 by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

He is also in demand as a session musician having recorded and/or performed with such artists as Alison Krauss, Kenny Chesney, Clint Black, Vince Gill, Little Big Town, Dolly Parton, The Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Bill Frisell, Susan Ashton, Rhonda Vincent, Dan Tyminski, Ronnie Bowman, Jim Mills, Dale Ann Bradley, The Lonesome River Band, The Isaacs, Mountain Heart, The Cox Family, John Bowman, and many, many more.


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The range of the Big Mon, it seems like it cuts it with the banjo. I know how I can attack it and I know it’s going to stay in tune and intonate properly. It’s the best bluegrass mandolin I’ve ever owned and just really works in a bluegrass band situation.
— Adam Steffey

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Adam Steffey test driving the Northfield Model M.


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