The Richter Mandolin Camp is excited to announce Sharon Gilchrist as one of our mandolin instructors for 2025. Sharon began touring the national bluegrass circuit in Texas for several years before earning a BA in Mandolin Performance at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. For two decades Sharon has performed with many of the groundbreaking legends in bluegrass and new acoustic music including The Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Scott Nygaard and John Reischman in The Harmonic Tone Revealers, Darol Anger, Tony Trischka, The CA Bluegrass Reunion Band, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Uncle Earl and many others. She is also a respected and influential music educator offering private mandolin instruction, multiple online mandolin courses at http://www.pegheadnation.com, as well as teaching at music camps internationally. In 2024, Sharon joined the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project as a featured artist and co-producer on their Vol 2. album, to be released in February 28, 2025. Sharon lives in Nashville, TN and currently performs with the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project Trio and the CA Bluegrass Reunion Band.