Grammy and Worldwide Bluegrass Music Awards winners Trey Hensley and Rob Ickes, who’ve carried out collectively as an acoustic duo for greater than a decade, are taking a hiatus from their musical partnership on the finish of 2025.
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After honoring their touring commitments by way of the top of the 12 months, Hensley will pivot to specializing in his solo profession in 2026, with plans to launch new solo music and launch a solo tour in 2026. Ickes will deal with session taking part in and touring with different artists.
“We’re beginning to wind down ‘Rob and Trey’ and starting to wind up ‘Trey Hensley solo,’” Ickes mentioned in a press release. “I’m prepared to tug again a bit of bit by way of touring, and Trey’s profession is admittedly taking off, so we each suppose it’s time for him to deal with that. I’d prefer to thank Trey for being such a stable musical/enterprise associate and buddy for the previous decade. I can’t think about working with anybody extra proficient and extra enjoyable. I’m so happy with what we’ve completed collectively, and I’m very excited to see what comes his approach together with his profession — I do know it’s going to be unimaginable!”
“Rob and I’ve lined numerous floor collectively over 10 years, profitable a Grammy Award this 12 months, incomes a Grammy nomination for our first duo document, collaborating with so a lot of our musical heroes and touring everywhere in the United States, Europe and Australia — it’s really been a tremendous trip!” Hensley added. “As I step out of the duo to deal with my solo profession, I wish to say an enormous thanks to Rob, who has been an important mentor and buddy to me and my household over time, and though it sounds cliché, this isn’t the top, however a brand new chapter. I do know we’ll make extra music collectively sooner or later. This alteration is solely going to permit me to deal with another tasks that I’m excited to share with everybody.”
As a duo, Ickes and Hensley earned a finest bluegrass album Grammy nomination for his or her 2014 debut collaborative venture Earlier than The Solar Goes Down. They adopted with albums together with 2016’s The Nation Blues, 2019’s World Filled with Blues and 2023’s Residing in a Track. Between them, Ickes and Hensley have collaborated with artists together with Tommy Emmanuel, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Little Feat, Nitty Gritty Grime Band, Rodney Crowell and Jorma Kaukonen.
Dobro participant Ickes beforehand grew to become a founding member of the band Blue Freeway in 1994. He’s received the IBMA’s dobro participant of the 12 months honor 15 instances, along with different IBMA Awards wins. Hensley was named the IBMA’s 2023 guitar participant of the 12 months.
Ickes and Hensley have additionally been a part of different IBMA Award-winning tasks, together with incomes the instrumental recorded efficiency of the 12 months honor for his or her work as a part of Particular Consensus on the music “Fireball,” together with Alison Brown.