TEDDY (TETLOW) WEBER guitar, steel guitar, vocals 
Weber, growing up in rural northwestern New Jersey, was exposed to all kinds of music, virtually everything except for early country and bluegrass music. Playing cornet in raucas urban ska bands, college jazz and classical ensembles and later acoustic guitar in folk circles from Maine to Colorado, Weber pulls from his own musical background. Influenced by an eclectic mix from blues to bluegrass and folk to jazz, Weber is also a classically trained trumpeter, and subsequently no stranger to performing in suit and tie.

In 1996 Weber stopped playing cornet and moved to Maine to study forestry. Within months he had traded in his horn for an acoustic guitar and found himself on stage again, this time picking the six-string, singing and writing songs. By 2001, shortly before his initial introduction to Beacco, he picked up the Dobro, and now plays primarily National steel body guitars and electric lap steel. His acoustic and electric steel guitar playing can be heard on recent releases by Todd Mack and Devendra Banhart. Teddy also regularly records and performs with The Blue Ribbon Boys and the Brooklyn based roots trio The Wiyos.

KIP BEACCO mandolin, guitar, fiddle, vocals
Beacco grew up in the small town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, moving around through the usual neighborhood garage bands, playing guitar and drums. He cites a Glen Campbell 'Learn To Play Guitar' method book as one of his first learning tools. A few bands later he was experimenting with many styles of music, including rock, fusion, jazz, blues, and folk. The bluegrass bug bit Beacco in '89, so he bought a mandolin to join the ranks.

Moving to Eugene, Oregon, and then to Fort Collins, Colorado in the mid 90’s, Beacco honed his mandolin chops forming The GrassRoute with singer/guitarist Bradford Lee Folk (Open Road). After roughly seven years, he returned home to his native Berkshire County, and started up another traditional, 5-piece bluegrass band, The Beartown Ramblers, further developing his bluegrass chops on mandolin as well as singing lead and baritone. Along the way Beacco has added the fiddle to his repetoire, rounding out the trio of instruments he now plays in The Hunger Mountain Boys. (Beacco photo by Mark L. Baer)

MATT DOWNING string bass
Downing’s musical roots were established in Iowa where his parents took him to jazz clubs and music festivals from the time he could walk. His family eventually moved to western Massachusetts—the place he now calls home—into a farmhouse just down the road from Arlo Guthrie’s church. After graduation, travels took him to live and work for a time on the island of St. John, then northern California, and a stint living on his sailboat in the Florida Key s before he found himself back in the Berkshires listening to a local bluegrass band called the Beartown Mountain Ramblers. The band needed a bass player, Downing said, “I can do that,” and he rented a bass, practiced up, and joined in. Along the way he picked up mandolin, banjo, ukulele, guitar, plus a little songwriting, and now performs in clubs and recording studios with a variety of groups. For the last several years, he has juggled his day job as a carpenter with national and international tours playing bass with Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops, and a 1927 National tricone tenor guitar with the Berkshire swing band The Blue Ribbon Boys. He is especially happy to join his longtime friends Kip and Ted in growing The Hunger Mountain Boys into a trio.