Sally Van Meter
Sally Van Meter is a Dobro player, producer, and teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area who now lives in Lyons, Colorado. She has played professionally since 1976. She joined the Good Ol' Persons in 1977, staying until 1996. Her debut solo album, All in Good Time, came out in 1991. She played on The Great Dobro Sessions (1994), which won a Grammy Award and IBMA's Instrumental Recording and Recorded Event of the Year. She was a finalist for IBMA's Dobro Player of the Year every year from 1990 to 1997, and she served as IBMA's vice president. Her album Tre Mistiche (2015) won Best Weissenborn Recording in the United Kingdom. She worked with Shubb Capos to develop the SP3 steel bar. Her music has been used in Northern Exposure, and she has produced albums for Yonder Mountain String Band and Open Road. She earned a degree in documentary filmmaking from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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