Meet Art & Air Idol Winner Salt of the Earth

Meet Salt of the Earth, the winner of this year's . The band will play Saturday at the on the main stage from 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. 

Genre: Roots-pop.

Members:

• Lynne Reif - Guitar, Harmonica, Cajon, Vocals;
• Mike Schrand - Bass, Baritone Guitar, Vocals;
• Jake Brookman - Cello;
• Jim Hieger - Guitar, Banjo.

Years Playing Together: 8

Number of Albums: 3

Where you can get them: Music Folk, CDBaby.com and iTunes.

What makes Salt of the Earth work?

Jim Heiger: "I think it's great because we all have so many different things, different genres of music that we all bring together."

Schrand: "Yeah, we've always been about playing songs that we like. I mean, we play almost entirely originals. It's always been about finding the original song that really speaks and putting our own pieces to it."

"I've played in a lot of bands in my life, and this is the first band where there's no egos, which is really weird, so it's kind of nice 'cause we all get along and when it's time to craft a song we all put ourselves aside and just start the song. It's kind of what we're about."

Reif: "We kind of like to rehearse almost as much as we like to play. We find ourselves very amusing, so we crack up a lot. It's very fun."

What's next?

Rief: "A lot of shows, more new songs, hopefully a new recording. Maybe a live recording."

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