Submitted photoForest Lake native Ben Valine, right, recently played guitar with two of his musical idols, Ricky Skaggs and Vince Gill, in a Nashville show that saw him improvising a solo.
Forest Lake native Ben Valine was recently granted the opportunity of a lifetime when he was selected to play with bluegrass legends Ricky Skaggs and Vince Gill in Nashville.
The April 25 performance was part of the grand opening of the Gallery of Iconic Guitars museum on the campus of Belmont University. The museum features a selection of instruments worth more than $10 million in total.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“I have been listening to Ricky and Vince pretty much my whole life,” Valine said. “Never did I dream that I would get to even meet them much less play with them.”
Valine, who was home-schooled in Forest Lake and graduated in 2013, began on banjo in 2007 when he signed up for lessons with local musician
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