Steve Graham
St Joseph Mo born and Ozarks raised, Founder and lead vocalist/ drummer of the Honkytonk Renovators has had many musical influences in his life Time, from singing in church and high school choir to playing drums at age 19. A few years later Steve decided to move to the thriving music scene of Springfield/ Branson Mo. in the early 90’s and For several years Steve honed his skills as a rockabilly/ blues drummer, sharing stages with some top national blues acts such as Walter trout, Chris Duarte, and Watermelon Slim.
Blues music also took Steve to several blues festivals across the country and also gave him the opportunity to record with Grammy winning sound engineer, Vance Powell.
Steve founded the Honkytonk Renovators in 2009 and has performed from Nashville to Las Vegas,and world wide on RFDTV. Sharing stages with top acts such as Gene Watson, Joe Diffy, Jo Dee Messina, Wayne Hancock, Alseep at the Wheel and most recently the Cleverlys and also rising country artist Jake Worthington.
Steve’s love for Western swing and classic country music with strong 3 part harmonies, steel guitar, fiddle and a twangin’ tele is what drives him to keep the genre renovated as he likes to say.
Dave Wilson
Newest member of the Honkytonk Renovators, Dave Wilson has been playing bass for 50+ years and in that time has worked with several local regional and has been lucky enough to work with legends, such as Mel Street , fiddling Frenchie Burke, and has also shared the stage with artist, such as Ricky Skaggs, Steve Warner, Waylon Jennings, Merl Haggard and Ricochet.
Junior Marriott
Junior Marriott began playing rhythm guitar at the age of seven for his dad, who played the fiddle. By age nine he was playing bass and at fourteen he began playing the fiddle. At the age of sixteen he won the Missouri State Fiddle Championship, a title he has won multiple times, including the current 2024 Missouri championship.
Junior has won various contests and other state championships as well. Some of these include Kansas State Fiddle Championship, Arkansas State Fiddle Championship, fifth place at the 2000 National Fiddle Championship in Weiser, Idaho, and Grand Lake Fiddle Festival Champion in 2006, 2007, and 2010.
A few major fiddle contests Junior has judged include Missouri State Championship, Arkansas State Championship, Grand Lake Championship in Grove, Oklahoma, the Texas State Championship in Hallettsville, Texas and the Grand Master Fiddler Championship. He enjoys traveling to contests all over the United States. Junior currently lives in Marshfield Missouri, where he teaches fiddle and guitar lessons. Junior also buys, sells, trades, and repairs instruments, and does various gigs playing in western swing bands.
Anna Lang
Anna Lang started playing fiddle at the age of 14. She has always had a love of country and Western swing music, her passion is playing lead and harmony fiddle in the style of Bob wills and the Texas playboys. Anna brings to the stage a unique vocal style, from the 1940s sound of Patsy Montana’s yodeling, to modern country vocals influenced by the queens of country music. She has worked with multiple bands including Riders of the circle B, Shepherd of the
Hills Great American Chuckwagon in Branson, Seth Darby and Lonesome Express, Delisa Dawn and Route 66, several small swing bands, and the Honky Tonk Renovators. Anna also is an accomplished old time fiddle player, lending toward the Texas style fiddling. She has played multiple state contests and fiddle competitions, including being the 2022 Oklahoma Adult state champion, 2024 Grand Lake Oklahoma Adult champion, and numerous others. Anna is also an accomplished rhythm guitar player, which she plays for students and
friends alike at contests and jams. She enjoys currently teaching at Marriott Music studio, where she teaches fiddle and guitar daily.
Heather White
Heather White is a 90’s country singer with some rock influence and classic country background, as well as a strong gospel background. She Started singing and performing for audiences at the early age of 14 when she got her start in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she sang for TBN recording artist Vern Jackson and David Michael Ashore Jr. until she moved to the Branson area at age 17 where started singing for the Showboat Branson Belle, and the Branson Jamboree For several years.
Then she got hired to sing for a local night club in Springfield Missouri where she replaced the legendary, Gretchen Wilson. At age 20 Heather started competing in several major talent contests in the region, winning most of them such as Missouri’s Star Search competition! At age 21, Heather moved to Nashville Tennessee to pursue her dream as a country artist and performed at several venues in Nashville as well as spending time with the likes of David Fraiser and John Rich in the studio, learning the ropes of the music industry! From there Heather relocated to St. Louis Missouri to perform with a blues and jazz band and also hired on with the Ozark Jubilee Roadshow and has been singing with them on and off for 25 years!
Heather has shared the stage, with legends, such as
Gene Watson, Ronnie McDowell, The Oak Ridge boys, Porter, Wagner, Lisa Layne, Jim Owen to name a few.
Heather is now fronting her own band and Is booking for 2025 and ready to perform and she is excited to share her love for music and have a ball doing so.
Randy Buckner
Randy Buckner fell in love with the guitar, and the music of Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, at age 9. Initially self-taught, he later studied jazz at Middle Tennessee State University.
The Springfield native has performed on Ozarks stages for more than 40 years as a solo artist and in a range of poplar groups from Swingfield Dance Orchestra and Pat Pending in the 1990s to the genre-defying 83
Skidoo for most of the past decade. He has played country, classic rock, jazz, blues, big band and western swing.
An in-demand private music instructor at Palen Music Center, he can teach “anything with a fret board” but guitar is his specialty. He has a packed roster of area students but also gives lessons to students in other states and parts of Europe.
A multi-year finalist at the International Home of the Legends Thumbpicking Championship in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Randy was an integral part of the former Merle Travis Thumbpicking Weekend at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Arkansas. For years, he judged the guitar contest, taught master classes and led panel discussions.
As a teenager, Randy shared the stage with Merle Travis. Later, he was honored to play alongside Eddie Pennington, Duck Baker, Steve Kaufman, Gene Dove, and Roger Blevins, and more.
His guitar influences are vast and include Travis, Atkins, George Barnes and Eldon Shamblin.
Jack Musgrave
Jack was raised in the Springfield, Missouri area and discovered, his great love and natural ability for music, early on. While growing up he taught himself how to play several instruments, and listening to local musicians play live shows in the area, he fell in love with the steel guitar. He began learning to play steel in 1976 with instruction from such great players as Byron, (Arnie) Arnold and good friend and mentor, Mike McGee.
His early influences were Buddy Emmons and Lloyd Green.
His professional career as a Steel Player began on the Table Rock Opry in Kimberling City Mo. in 1977. After that, he began playing in several local bands, in many area nightclubs, dance venues and music shows. During the 90s Jack went on the road with Campbell’s Ozark country Jubilee playing across the nation. In the 2000s he was a regular player on the Truman Opry in tightwad Missouri and the Fort Scott Jubilee in Kansas. He has played on several regional country music television shows and He’s enjoyed the privilege of working with many Nashville entertainers throughout his career. Jack has played on numerous sessions in area recording studios and in more recent years he has enjoyed playing shows in many of Missouri and Oklahoma casinos, including the hard rock hotel and casino in Tulsa.
In 2015 Jack was inducted into the Kansas steel guitar Hall of Fame.
In 2018 Jack received the Ozark steel guitar association player of the year award.
He’s a proud father of three beautiful children four grandchildren one great grandchild. His hobbies include working on his 1966 Pontiac, GTO convertible and playing steel guitar. Jack feels richly blessed with all the friendships he has made during the course of his music career and thinks of each one of them as a member of his extended family!
Jack has worked with Southwest Mo. local legends
Bobby Degonia, Dewayne Bowman, Speedy Hall, Slim Wilson
Nashville singers,
Ronnie McDowell, Mel McDaniel, Jeanne Sealy, Jean Shepherd, Leona Williams, Norma Jean, Johnny Lee, Ferlin Husky, Tony Booth,
