Sicard Hollow is a four-piece progressive bluegrass band who formed with a mutual passion for pushing the boundaries of genre. Heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead and New Grass Revival, these young pickers bring new energy to a timeless style with a combination of fearless improvisation and instrumental prowess.

Megan Jean Klay has been writing and performing original songs for 20 years, beginning her career in New York City’s East Village while studying theatre at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There she performed her first show and held a residency at CBGB’s and performed at The Knitting Factory and Piano’s. After meeting her husband Byrne Klay and forming a duo they released their first album Autumn (2010) as Megan Jean and the Klay Family Band, which was later abbreviated to KFB for the release of three self released full-length albums in Dead Woman Walkin’ (2010), The Devil Herself (2013), and Tarantistas (2018). As a duo the KFB performed 2000+ shows, sharing the stage with Charles Bradley, Shovels and Rope, Amythyst Kiah, Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band, and 10,000 Maniacs. They were featured on PBS’s Music Voyager and Heartland’s More Than the Music, won Floydfest’s On The Rise Competition, and played the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. In 2021 Megan Jean began work on her solo singer songwriter album “Death Is An Old Friend,” and formed a new band called Megan Jean’s Secret Family with husband Byrne Klay and drummer Tommy Bailey of Fletcher’s Grove. She is currently writing and performing with both her solo act and full band while teaching vocals in Western Maryland.   Byrne Klay has been playing music professionally since he was 16 in White Plains, NY, getting his start picking up bass gigs. From 2002-2005 he toured and recorded extensively in Japan, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and the USA with the theatrical punk outfit Dynamite Club. Around the same time he co-led the instrumental band ThisSpySurfs with Todd Colburn, holding an extended residency at Sideshow Art Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn.  In 2004 he met Megan Jean and the two have been recording and touring together ever since. In 2022 he joined The Folk Em All Trio in Frostburg MD with Jody Mosser and Fiddlin’ Ray Bruckman. That same year the trio United with Joe Craven (Jerry Garcia/Dave Grisman) to form Joe Craven and the Y’allterations, making appearances at festivals on the east coast.