b4Nashville with Flat River Band

b4Nashville with Buck Ford

Buck began his story as a professional motocross racer riding the circuit for over a decade  He received a full ride with the Honda team through the West Coast Super Cross Series in 2009. He placed his riding career on holdto pursue his love and passion for country music.

b4Nashville with Carter Lybrand

Past the corn fields and dirt roads of mid state South Carolina, Carter Lybrand found his love for country music through his musically gifted grandparents.  While in Iraq, this defender of freedom became popular among his comrades for his natural singing ability.  Destined to carve out his own musical journey, Carter began pursuing music professionally in 2019.

b4Nashville with Chandler Stephens

Chandler Stephens was born with the love of music in her soul.  At a very young age she began singing in church, and her love for music only expanded from there.

b4Nashville with Michelle Wright

Growing up in Merlin, Ontario, a small Canadian farming community near Chatham, Michelle Wright heard the rhythm & blues and Motown hits coming out of Detroit, just forty-five minutes away. But especially, she heard the strains of country music since her parents were both country performers. "My earliest memories of music are singing in the car or spending the weekend with my father after my parents separated and watching him put on a rhinestone-studded suit to perform in." As a young girl, she tagged along to countless shows. "We were never a family band, but I got a lot of inspiration and encouragement from my mother. That's where my love of country music really began."

b4Nashville with Flat River Band

The Flat River Band, consisting of three brothers Andy, Chad and Dennijo Sitze, grew up in a multi-generational family band. Performing  alongside their parents and grandparents, they held residencies at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri and at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Throughout their tenure in music, the Missouri natives have charted #1 hits on the bluegrass gospel charts and have opened for  The Chicks’ Natalie Maines, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, TG Sheppard and more.