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Sally Wingate

Sally Wingate is an American bluegrass banjoist and guitarist. A student of first-generation pioneer Ted Lundy, she began her career performing with regional ensembles including The Bluegrass Liberation and Cherokee Rose. She later joined the all-female acoustic bluegrass group HeartStrings. In 1996, she relocated from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Nashville, Tennessee, where she and her husband, fiddler Mark Wingate, formed The Contrarian Ensemble which combined bluegrass with contra dance and English country music.

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