About Me
We are a four piece band consisting of upright bass, guitar, banjo and mandolin
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Blake Johnson, from Roxboro, NC, plays the acoustic bass. He started playing the piano at the age of five. When Blake was three years old, he sang with his family in church. He began playing the guitar at eight years old; when he became a teenager, he learned to play the bass. At sixteen, Blake joined the Second Chance Band. At eighteen years ole, he played with Jay Kayzor and the Bluegrass Connection. By the time Blake was twenty, he began playing with Little Mountain Grass. Blake Johnson is now twenty-five.
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Mike Johnson from Roxboro, NC plays the guitar. He grew up in Turberville, VA where he started playing the guitar at age six. Mike joined his first band when he was twelve and has been playing anything from Southern Gospel music to Bluegrass music. He started playing the piano at age fifteen for The Harmony Believers, a southern gospel group. At nineteen, he toured from coast to coast with Lower Forty Grass. Mike has been with the bluegrass gospel band, Harold Young and Friends, for the last sixteen years. Mike is 53 years old and he is the proud father of Blake Johnson.________________________________________
Cliff Smith, From Virgilina, VA, plays the banjo. At the age of five, he started playing the guitar; at eight, he began playing the bass and at the age of twelve, he picked up the banjo and the fiddle. Cliff's family played for many square dances around southern Virginia since the 1940's. Cliff, at age twenty started playing with the band, Blue Ridge Thunder. Two years later he played with the Stories Creek band. Cliff is currently twenty four.
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Ricky Stroud, from Roxboro, NC plays the mandolin. Ricky grew up in Mullins, SC. He started singing with his family in a gospel group at the age of five. He began playing the mandolin at the age of eight. In 1990, he and his father founded the band, The Pilgrims. His younger brother and sister also sang with the group. In 1995, he began playing with the band, Sounds of Grass. In 1997, Ricky moved to Roxboro to join the New Classic Grass band. He joined the Stories Creek Band in 2002. Two years later he joined Little Mountain Grass. Ricky is the old man of the group at the age of 40.
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Blake, Mike, Cliff, and Ricky decided to form the Hagar's Mountain Boys while jamming at a local festival. We all had the same idea about how true Bluegrass should sound. With strong harmonies and hard driving instrumentals the band is sure to put a smile on your face while you are listening to that toe-tapping sound!
