Old-Time Music & Early Country Music
Kellie and Pete have been harmonizing and making music together since 2000. They both enjoy deconstructing an old-time or early bluegrass song or tune from the original recording and turning it into their own music. They can be found during festival season in jams at Mt. Airy, Clifftop, the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, and other festivals, and hosting parties at their house in Oxford, PA.
Since 2003 they have been members of a five-piece band, the Orpheus Supertones (with Walt Koken, Clare Milliner and Hilary Dirlam), which traveled extensively in the United States, Australia and Europe. Additionally, Supertones videos can be viewed on Walt Koken’s YouTube Channel.
Kellie and Pete play with several bands and are a sought-after back-up duo for fiddlers and singers from all over the U.S. and beyond. These bands include Allemande with Chris and Heidi Germain and Paul Sidlick, Big Four with Gene and Marynell Young.
The duo previously teamed up with Beverly Smith to tour Australia in an old-time trio, Smith Allen Peterson.
Pete and Kellie’s newest old-time project is a revival of their band with master fiddler Randy Johnson. Paula Jeannet will be joining the band.
In addition to performing, Pete and Kellie enjoy showing others how to play and sing in the styles they have learned in individual lessons, short workshops, and week-long classes at music camps.
They believe that the second Golden Age of old-time music is right NOW.
Kellie’s Grandmother Blanche (Rutter) Allen is the second person from the left in the old photos below. She played cornet in the Santa Fe Railroad Ladies Band in the early 20th century.
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