Mark Lavengood is a dobro player, songwriter and bandleader out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He won the dobro competition at RockyGrass, spent seven years touring with Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys, and has shared the stage with Billy Strings, as a guest at Van Andel Arena and as host, MC and artist-at-large at the inaugural Ionia Freak Fair. Billy Strings calls him "a great songwriter and a master on the dobro." He leads the Mark Lavengood Band and the Prine Time John Prine tribute, and his new record, Wake Up, is on the way.

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