Andrea Roberts
Andrea Roberts, born Andrea Campbell, is a bluegrass bassist, guitarist, singer, and booking agent from Windfall, Indiana. She moved to Nashville in 1987 and the next year formed the all-woman band Petticoat Junction with banjo player Robin Roller, fiddler Gail Rudisill, and bassist Gena Britt, playing guitar and singing. The band recorded three albums and performed through the 1990s before disbanding in 1998. She has also performed with Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, Jim & Jesse, Ralph Stanley, Larry Sparks, Mac Wiseman, Special Consensus, the Fox Family, and Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike. She founded the Andrea Roberts Agency in 2004 to book bluegrass and acoustic acts. She received the IBMA Momentum Award for Mentor in 2015, recognized in particular for her work with the band Flatt Lonesome, and was elected to a three-year term on the IBMA board of directors in 2020. She is a graduate of the IBMA's Leadership Bluegrass program. She married Grascals mandolin player Danny Roberts. Their daughter, Jalee Roberts, performs with the Grammy winning all-woman bluegrass group Sister Sadie.