Yonder Mountain String Band has officially announced its new band member line-up moving forward, which features the additions of violinist Allie Kral and mandolin virtuoso Jacob Jolliff. Joining founding members Adam Aijala (guitar, vocals), Dave Johnston (banjo, vocals) and Ben Kaufmann (bass, vocals), Kral and Jolliff appear on YMSB’s latest full-length studio album, Black Sheep (Frog Pad Records), and have toured with the band over the past year. Scheduled for national release on June 16, 2015, Black Sheep marks the first time in Yonder’s history that they’re utilizing, throughout an entire record, the conventional five-piece instrumental arsenal of bluegrass introduced in the 1940s: guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle and bass.
