܀Alex Hibbitts܀

The newest member of The Expedition Show is Alex Hibbitts.  At the ripe “old” age of 24, Alex is an accredited musician on several instruments, a creative songwriter, and an outstanding harmony vocalist.  Alex originally hales from the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia, but now resides in Johnson City, Tennessee.  He began his musical adventure at a very young age of 4 with a guitar lesson from his dad.  His appreciation and dedication to bluegrass music soon began when he got his first mandolin at age 10.  After playing with local and regional bands throughout his teenage years, Alex got his first professional music job and performed with noted bluegrass greats such as Randy Kohrs, Alecia Nugent, Wildfire, New River Line, and The Midnight Ramblers.  Alex is a recent graduate of East Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.   He also obtained a minor in Bluegrass while enrolled in the Bluegrass/Old-time & Country Music Program at ETSU.  Due to Alex’s superb playing abilities, he has received endorsements from J'BOVIER MANDOLAS, STACY MANDOLINS, and SILVER ANGEL MANDOLINS.  Alex has recorded two solo projects as well.  His first project, It's About Time released in 2006, was well received by the bluegrass community.   Alex has owned and operated Depression Lies Studio in Johnson City, Tennessee for the last two years.  Alex’s most recent project, The Chronicles of Depression, was produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered at his studio.  Both projects feature many of today’s popular bluegrass artists including Jimmy Van Cleve, Josh Swift, Josh Miller, Hunter Berry, Darrell Webb, Clay Hess, Daniel Salyer, Brandon Green and more.