Michele Birkby-Vance
Michele Birkby-Vance is an American bluegrass fiddler and vocalist. Born in Grantsville, Maryland, she began playing fiddle at age ten under her father's guidance. She played for two years with the all-female ensemble the New Coon Creek Girls and recorded on the inaugural International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award-winning Daughters of Bluegrass project. Alongside her husband, banjoist Radford Vance, she played with the Ohio-based Northwest Territory Bluegrass Band for over twenty years, before the duo joined the western Pennsylvania regional ensemble the Allegheny Drifters.