By Casey Phillips
Staff Writer
The Cherryholmes family may be counted among the aristocracy of the bluegrass scene these days, but at their onset, they were more rags than riches.
Seemingly everything was against the Cherryholmeses in 1999 when Sandy and Jere Cherryholmes and their four children came home from a local bluegrass festival with the idea of forming a band to bring their family closer together.
They were from California, so in many people’s eyes, they couldn’t be true bluegrass musicians, and they were related, which made them a novelty, Sandy Cherryholmes said.