EARLVILLE – The Earlville Opera House welcomes Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen at 8 p.m. Friday. The two country rock pioneers take the EOH main stage to explore the back roads of Americana music. Hillman’s excellent guitar and mandolin technique blend beautifully with the hillbilly flavors provided by Pedersen’s fiery banjo picking. This performance is generously sponsored by Stearns & Wheler, LLC and media sponsor WAER – FM.

Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson - both still youthful in their early sixties – are two quietly monumental figures of an era of American music - young guns alongside McGuinn, Crosby, J.D. Souther, Neil Young, Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, Dan Fogelberg, Timothy B. Schmit, Al Perkins and so many more.   Some may remember Hillman and Pedersen from their days together in the Desert Rose Band. 

Chris Hillman’s won a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  Arguably the pioneer of the genre know as “Country Rock,” Chris Hillman has carved a permanent niche in the history of contemporary American music with such notable bands as The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and the Desert Rose Band.