An Evening with Rosine at OK Theatre

Bio

Nashville-based Americana/folk duo Rosine is exploring and cultivating a soundscape that relies on the emotive potential of acoustic instruments to showcase original songs. Its members, husband/wife duo Forrest and Meredith Lane O’Connor, have each dedicated their lives to performing new music, and despite hailing from opposite sides of the country, their shared vision of what folk writing could look like a quarter-way into the 21st century prompted them to join forces in 2025.

Individually, the members of Rosine have worked with a wide array of artists and performed in major venues throughout the country. A Nashville native and Tennessee State Mandolin Champion, Forrest has collaborated with Paul Simon, Zac Brown, Steve Martin & Martin Short, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck, and many others over the last 15 years. In 2015, he co-founded the O’Connor Band with his father, seven-time CMA Award-winning fiddler Mark O’Connor; Forrest wrote several songs, including the title track, for the O’Connor Band’s first album Coming Home, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Bluegrass Albums Chart and won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

It was during an O’Connor Band tour nearly a decade ago that Forrest first met Meredith in her small hometown of Enterprise, Oregon, where she would go on to develop a strong following thanks to her vocal and songwriting prowess as well as her collaborations with notable artists from the region, including Grammy Award-winner Zach Top and Billboard chart-toppers The Band Joseph. The town of Enterprise is nestled in the breathtaking Wallowa County wilderness, which served as a powerful inspiration for the development of Lane’s artistry and songwriting voice.

Forrest and Meredith began meeting up on cold nights last winter in their friend and collaborator (and fiddler extraordinaire) Eli Bishop’s small studio shed in Madison, TN, to arrange and prepare for a series of live music videos, which they filmed at Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Studio in 2025. They are currently recording their first album for Compass Records, collaborating extensively with recent Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Marcus Hummon (Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, The Chicks) to shape and hone a sound that combines memorable melodies with exploratory harmonies, instrumental virtuosity, and lyrical acuity.