Tim Dishman has joined forces with his wife Tina Adair. Tim and Tina’s strong vocal blend and Tim’s authentic and versatile bass playing provide the backbone for the band’s dynamic sound.  Born in Valparaiso, Indiana, Tim has family roots deeply planted in Alabama and West Virginia. He grew up playing drums and occasionally electric bass in his family’s gospel band. He turned to bluegrass at thirteen when he received his first guitar and his first Tony Rice album. He started his bluegrass career playing guitar with The Porter County Bluegrass Band. He later played electric bass with The Kenny Stone Unit.  When Tim met Special Consensus leader Greg Cahill he finally got an opportunity to show off his talents as an acoustic bass player and tenor singer. Tim became a member of Special Consensus in 1999 and traveled with the band through 2004, playing on both the 25th Year Anniversary project as well as the award-winning Route 10 album. Tim is also a two-time nominee for Bass Player of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards

Jamie was born in Pretty Water, Oklahoma. He began playing guitar at the tender age of four and by the age of six was already performing with his family’s gospel band. Still playing guitar on stage, Jamie would enter and win guitar contests when ever he could. His competing culminated in him taking first place in the prestigious Oklahoma State Flat-pick Championship in 1990.

1995 found Jamie as a member of the national touring gospel group, New Tradition. His tenure with the band lasted for five years until, in early 2001, he found himself on stage playing guitar and singing with the Special Consensus.

Jamie finally retired from the road and Special consensus in 2004 to pursue an alternative unrelated career opportunity.

Jamie has come out of retirement to grace the Tina Adair Band with his stella guitar playing. He also brings strong vocal talent to the band as well as his song writing ability, so watch this space for some Clifton original material very soon.

Tina Adair began singing at the age of three.  Everyone who heard her voice knew she had found her calling.  At five, her mom showed her three chords on the guitar and her love for stringed instruments blossomed.  She now plays banjo, fiddle, bass, piano and her signature instrument, the mandolin.  Tina soon joined her family band, Bluegrass Edition and in 1996 they won the prestigious “International Pizza Hut Showdown” in Owensboro, KY.

As a result of this award, Tina Adair and the Adairs (a new name for a new era) signed with Sugar Hill Records.  Tina’s first album, Just You Wait & See, was released in September of 1997 and featured Chris Thile, Bryan Sutton, Aubrey Haynie, Viktor Krauss, Charlie Cushman, Keith Little, and Alan O’Bryant and was produced by Jerry Douglas.  The record received rave reviews and exposed Tina to a national audience. The album sold in excess of twenty thousand copies climbed to the top ten on the Americana charts. The success of this album culminated in Tina being nominated four times for SPBGMA “female vocalist of the year” and twice for the IBMA “female vocalist of the year” second round. 

After a successful four year run with Sugar Hill, Tina decided to leave the label to pursue an education in music business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.  However, her passion for making music still ran deep and by the end of 2000, she had completed her second, and equally well-received album, All You Need. 

Now, after years of preparation, Tina has decided to take her love for performing to a new level.  She is introducing an incredible new band, simply titled The Tina Adair Band.  It is a group of musicians who admire and understand Tina’s songs, and the way she sings them.  The band is in the process of completing its first album and by all indications, bluegrass audiences will be so very glad to have Tina back.