Hailing from the hills of East Kentucky, Michael Prewitt has played the mandolin for the past couple of decades, where he soaked up the music of Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, and J.D. Crowe and the New South, before lighting out for the Upper Midwest. While there, he became enamored of Midwestern and Canadian fiddle music, and co-founded Back Up & Push, a Minneapolis-based bluegrass band that released a regionally well-received album, before joining the Grammy-nominated and IBMA award-winning bluegrass band Special Consensus. After touring with Special Consensus for three years, winning two IBMA Awards and being personally nominated twice for Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year while with the band, he left to pursue a solo career as a singer-songwriter, now fronting his band CrunchGrass Supreme. He released two albums in 2024, “The Peerless Mountain Sessions, ” an album of old fiddle tunes played on the mandolin in a bass, banjo, mandolin trio setting, and “Something He Can Handle, ” his debut full band original vocal album. He lives and teaches in WIlliamsburg, Kentucky.