Mandolincafe.com is reporting that Adam Steffey and Kym Warner have teamed up as a duo for the Mandolin Sessions in December while their bands are taking a year-end hiatus.

Steffey has been voted Mandolin Player of the Year six times by the International Bluegrass Music Association and is a multiple Grammy winner. He is a member of The Dan Tyminski Band, whose recent recording, Wheels, was named 2009 Album of the Year last month by the IBMA.

Kym Warner is from Australia, but is now based in Nashville. He is a founding member of the award-winning band, The Greencards, which earned the Americana Music Association Award for “Emerging Artist of the Year” in 2006.

Although some venue information is sketchy, appearances for the “Mandolin Sessions” include:

December 8
Kirk Avenue Music Hall
22 Kirk Avenue SW
Roanoke, Virginia
(540) 589-0546
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $10

December 9
Ashland Coffee & Tea
100 N. Railroad Ave, Ashland, Virginia
(804) 798-1702
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15 advance / $20 door

December 11
House Concert – SOLD OUT
Great Falls, Virginia

December 12
House Concert
Columbia, Maryland

December 13, 2009
House Concert
Phoenix, Maryland

Steffey is riding high on the recent release of his new Sugar Hill Records CD, One More For The Road, a combination of instrumentals and vocal numbers, joining classics with originals. Adding to the musical landscape of the album are his fellow musicians from the Dan Tyminski Band, as well as a stellar line-up of others, including Ronnie Bowman, Stuart Duncan, Alison Krauss, Ron Block and Clay Hess.