Hot Rize November 6, 2010

Hot Rize is a bluegrass music band composed of Tim O'Brien (mandolin, fiddle), Pete Wernick (banjo), Charles Sawtelle (guitar) and Nick Forster (electric bass). In 1999, Charles Sawtelle died and three years later Forster and O'Brien brought in Bryan Sutton on the guitar to reform the band. They rose to prominence in the early 1980s, appeared on national radio and TV shows, toured most of the US, Japan, Europe and Australia.