Rick Hayes (2)

Schooled in bluegrass by his father Green Hayes, bluegrass musician and bandleader in the northern Kentucky. Went from bluegrass to play guitar in a rock band. Came back to Bluegrass and began playing with Blue and Lonesome, followed by a stint playing mandolin for the Gibson Brothers. Left the road and he and his brother Ron opened the Hayes Brothers Music Center on Mainstrasse in Covington, Kentucky. The theater hosted nationally known bluegrass acts in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Did a solo CD in 2008 titled Fly By Night. Operating Rick Hayes Instruments and has built guitars or mandolins for Ron Block, Sierra Hull, Shawn Lane, and Jeff Parker. Also is involved in Hayes Productions Recording Studio and plays mandolin in the Cincinnati area band Nightflyer.