The Rooster's Wife brings Rob Ickes and Jim Hurst to the gallery of Poplar Knight Spot, Sunday, April 10.

The doors open at 6 p.m., with the music commencing at 6:45.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $23 the day of the show, available online at theroosterswife.org with credit or debit card, or at the door with cash or check. For reservations, call (910) 944-7502.

Ickes is the first artist with roots in bluegrass music to be named a USA Fellow.

United States Artists, an organization dedicated to supporting America's finest artists working across diverse disciplines, announced the selection of Rob Ickes as the 2010 United States Artists Cummings Fellow at a -ceremony on Dec. 7, 2010, at Lincoln Center.

The USA Fellows program awards a $50,000 grant to 50 artists each year in the disciplines of music, theater arts, visual arts, dance, literature, media, crafts/traditional arts and architecture/designs.

A Northern California native, Rob Ickes moved to Nashville in 1992 and joined Blue Highway, the highly esteemed bluegrass band, as a founding -member in 1994. He is -recognized as one of the most innovative dobro -players on the scene today, contributing signature -technique and greatly expanding the boundaries of the instrument's sonic and stylistic territory.

He won the International Bluegrass Music Association's Dobro Player of the Year award for a record-setting 11th time in 2009; IBMA notes that he is the most awarded instrumentalist in the history of the IBMA awards.

As an active session player and touring -musician, he has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including Charlie Haden, Merle Haggard, Earl Scruggs, Tony Rice, David Grisman, Alison Krauss, Willie Nelson, David Lee Roth, Dolly Parton, Patty Loveless, Peter Rowan, Claire Lynch and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

The youngest dobro player on "The Great Dobro Sessions," which won the 1994 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, he was also on the Alison Krauss & The Cox Family album, "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow," which won the 1994 Grammy for Best Southern Gospel.

His most recent release is a dobro-piano jazz album, "Road Song" (ResoRevolution 2009).

Multi-award winning guitarist Jim Hurst is known throughout the Nashville, Tenn., area as one of the best in the business. His talents of singing, multi-intrumentalist abilities and well-rounded stylings have garnered him support positions and recording sessions with some of the best artists in -country and bluegrass music.

The gallery is totally accessible with parking adjacent to the building at 114 Knight St., in downtown Aberdeen.

Tickets may be -purchased online through the website, or at the door with cash or check.

Children under 12 are always free at the Rooster's Wife events, furthering the mission of building community through the arts.

For more information and the complete -schedule, visit www.the roosterswife.org or call (910) 944-7502.