Rachel Grimes ...
About Rachel Grimes 1. Pianist, composer, and arranger Rachel Grimes has created a singular body of work, both as a solo artist and as a member of the group Rachel's , that negotiates a surprisingly graceful alliance between contemporary classical and indie rock. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Grimes began playing piano as a child, and studied music at the University of Louisville, receiving a B.A. in 1993. In 1991, her friends Jason Noble (guitar and bass) and Christian Frederickson (viola), living in Baltimore, recorded a cassette-only EP they called Rachel's Halo, and they passed along a copy to Grimes . Grimes liked the music, and she teamed up with Noble and Frederickson to form the group Rachel's (named not for Grimes , but for Noble 's automobile). The group, whose membership would expand and contract with the needs of each project (sometimes including as many as 17 musicians, and at other times just featuring the core trio), st