Winston Mitchell

Winston started playing guitar at 14, learning from his dad who was a skilled guitarist, singer, songwriter, and pedal steel player.   Playing mostly electric guitar until his early-20s, he was introduced to the music of Jeff Austin and Yonder Mountain String Band and was immediately captivated by the energy and improvisation coming off of a pile of bootleg CDs.  After being in bands full of guitar players he decided to try out mandolin and immediately was hooked.  With his strongest inspirations deriving from Jeff & Sam Bush’s playing, he worked his way backwards through time to get to the origins of bluegrass.    

Winston’s band, Into The Fog, is described as “psychedelic jamgrass” (no part of nothin’) and you can find them constantly on the road bouncing from venue to festival.  With elements of funk, jam, blues, and punk it is not traditional bluegrass by any means, but they pay their respects to the origin well while bending the idea of what acoustic music can be.