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Ray and his wife Vicky own and operate the Cortland Picture Frame Co. in Cortland, NY and share their humble home with a wonderful bulldog, Dolly.

Ray also plays mandolin on stage (look out Sam Bush!) and has recently started to learn to play the bass (same goes for you Edgar!).

Ray does a lot of the booking for the band and also handles a lot of the MC work. He's a real "people person" and loves to pick (pun intended!) on banjo players.

John Delaney, coincidentally enough, was born into the same musical family as Ray, in which all four siblings exhibit a high degree of musical talent. John first learned to play the guitar when he was 14 and took up the mandolin shortly before the two started Delaney Brothers Bluegrass.

John's Bluegrass influences include David Grisman, Sam Bush and the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. He also enjoys different styles of music, especially the guitar styling of the late Michael Hedges.

While playing primarily mandolin on stage, John also has a distinctive fingerpicking guitar style that he also incorporates into DBB shows. John does most of the lead singing, a statement to his incredible vocal range, and also does some songwriting, not the least of which are the title cut from their album, Tina's Waltz, and Katrina's Lullaby, from their recording, Full Spectrum.

Living in Central New York, John is a research and development technician by day, and has three children: Heather, Jonathan and Susie.

Joe Davoli is a graduate of DePaul University and attended the Berklee School of Music. He has studied with improvisational greats Matt Glaser, Darol Anger and John Blake.

Joe is a consummate performer of several styles of music, including bluegrass, Celtic, jazz, rock, classical, and blues.

He is a member of Delaney Brothers Bluegrass, and won a Syracuse Area Music Award (SAMMY) for Best Bluegrass Instrumentalist/Vocalist in 2001. Also in 2001, Joe composed and recorded music for the off-Broadway revival of Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants The Bronx.

In 2004 he served as musical supervisor for the short film Brando From The Neck Down in which its soundtrack features Joe playing both fiddle and mandolin.

Joe performed with the Syracuse Pops Orchestra for over a decade. He is currently a member of One Sweet World and the inspirational group Ceili Rain.

In demand as a studio musician and teacher, Joe lives in Syracuse, NY with his wife Darbie and three children Nicholas, Olivia and Joseph III.

In 2006, Joe and guitarist Harvey Nusbaum won a SAMMY award for their "Best Folk and Acoustic Recording," Fiddle & Guitar. For more information on the album, click on the image at the right. To purchase a copy, go to www.joedavoli.com/flash/ and click on the STORE link.

Joe's latest CD album Game Plan, also recorded in 2006, is available for purchase by going to www.joedavoli.com/flash/ and clicking on the STORE link. Here's a bit of what Bill Knowlton of WCNY-FM's Bluegrass Ramble show (Syracuse/Utica/ Watertown) has to say about Joe's latest project: "Joseph F. Davoli Jr. can play anything on the "Devil's Box": jazz, Celtic, old-time country, and of course, bluegrass. He can sing too as you'll hear on "Just a Little Man," a number he often performs when doing his fiddling duties with Delaney Brothers Bluegrass." The album also features other members of the Delaney Brothers band, past and present. To learn more about it, click on the image at the right.

Nick Piccininni, born in Vernon, New York, grew up to the sound of his mother playing piano. When he was ten years old, she began teaching him along with her other piano students.

At about that time, some of his friends started playing bluegrass. This inevitably made bluegrass more "cool" to him than the piano. It was then he found himself drawn to one instrument in particular: the banjo.

For his thirteenth birthday, his parents gave him his first banjo and he began, with the aid of the Murphy Method videos, teaching himself to pick. Almost immediately his main influence became Jim Mills, but he has also come to admire and draw from the playing of J.D. Crowe, Sammy Shelor, and Ron Stewart.

On the side, Nick also enjoys small-scale farming. He lives on 30 acres with his parents and sister, all of whom have been dragged into his "experiments" raising sheep and chickens and pigs - oh my! Nick is excited to see what the future holds for him as a musician, and is looking forward to making music as a part of Delaney Brothers Bluegrass.

Heir to the Delaney musical legacy, Jonathan Delaney began playing guitar around age 14 solely for personal pleasure. However, when Delaney Brothers Bluegrass found themselves in need of a new upright bass player to take up the baton from Jim Treat, who retired at the end of the 2006 season, and with no other prospects in sight, Jonathan's Delaney genes kicked in.

With no previous experience on the instrument, he took up the challenge to learn the bass and join his father John and Uncle Ray in upholding the Delaney tradition in bluegrass. Barely having played the instrument two months, he made his debut performance with the band in a one-hour set at Amboy Center. John handed him a set list one day and said he had two weeks to learn the material. Jonathan met this new challenge head-on to make an impressive first performance on stage. Not even a month later, he took the stage for a full show at Oswego Music Hall, doing an outstanding job.

In addition to being talented on the bass, Jonathan also possesses a terrific high tenor voice. So in the tradition of family harmony, the band is putting him to work singing lead on a few numbers, as well as adding to the vocal mix for a sound that fans are sure to love.