Introducing Mama’s Blue Dress

With all of the great music set to come out of Nashville this year, make sure you don't miss Mama's Blue Dress!

Self described as, "Dixie Chicks with a side of Little Big Town" Mama's Blue Dress offers all the harmonies, melodies and expert songwriting of each of those bands and couples it with a diverse musical background. Four ladies born and bred to play music and form this band.

Vocalist and fiddle player Nicole Witt comes from bluegrass blood. Her father was a square dancer on the Ozark Jubilee television show and Nicole herself won the International Bluegrass Music Association Award for Song of the Year for Balsam Range’s version of her song “Trains I Missed.”

Violinist Andrea Young has been playing classical violin since the age of two. As well as being a songwriter and recording artist herself, Andrea has played with Jerrod Niemann, Jana Kramer, Lady Antebellum, Bo Bice, Halfway To Hazard and more!

If ever Mama's Blue Dress seems to have an edge to the vocals, songwriting or fret work, you can thank vocalist and guitarist Elizabeth Elkins. She's been the guitar slinging front woman for Atlanta based rockers The Swear since 2003 and recently did her part singing on the new record for 80's rockers Skid Row! Elizabeth is a Grand Prize Winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and has had several of her songs placed on dozens of television shows.

And we round out the group with Sugar Land, TX native and former American Idol finalist Vanessa Olivarez. After making it to the semi-finals of Season 2 of Idol, Vanessa wrote and recorded new music in Canada with songwriter and actor James Collins, played Tracy Turnblad in the Canadian version of the musical Hairspray and then returned to the United States and joined an Atlanta musical group Butterfly Stitch. She then co-founded Granville Automatic with Mama's Blue Dress band mate Elizabeth Elkins.

The group recently raised nearly $20,000 on Kickstarter and is currently in the studio with producer Jen Ketner and executive producer Keith Stegall (Alan Jackson, Randy Travis and Zac Brown) working on their debut record.