Russ Rentler

Russ Rentler discovered bluegrass in high school, which led to a life-long love of acoustic music. After college, Russ went to medical school. During his medical training, Russ continued to pursue his passion of acoustic music and picked up hammer and mountain dulcimer, fiddle, dobro, autoharp and bouzouki.

In 2016, Russ retired from medical practice. This finally allowed him to pursue his life-long dream and passion of performing original and traditional music.  He counts Bob Dylan, John McCutcheon and Walt Michaels as major influences in his style.  His live performances are a mix of folk, celtic and blues-inspired tunes with multiple instrument changes interspersed with his off-beat humor and wry observations about life.