The Pagosa Hot Strings are a Bluegrass/Newgrass band made up of three young men living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. They have been playing together for going on 6 years in the summer of 2001. The Hot strings have made several festival appearances including Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rockygrass, Four Corners Folk Festival, and The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. The band won the Telluride band contest in 1999, and appeared on the Telluride main stage in June of 2000.

Josiah Payne, the band's mandolin player, won the 2000 Mandolin Championships held at the National Flatpicking Championships in Winfield, Ks. Sept 2000. Also, the band just finished recording their new CD, "Window of Opportunity", and it will release in April 2001. The band has several dates lined up for this festival season, hopefully we'll get to meet you at one! The Pagosa Hot Strings have two CD's currently available:Their first CD, titled "Times Like These", and the newly released, "Live at Telluride"

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