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MARQUETTE -- For the past eight years, members of Chasin' Steel have been dazzling fans with their high energy bluegrass music.  After playing music as a family, the Kuhlman brothers joined forces with Adam Carpenter to play what they describe as progressive bluegrass.

"Progressive bluegrass would be a little take on the Bill Monroe style of playing bluegrass...straightforward bluegrass.  We kind of take that and we spin it into a more high energy, sort of jam kind of band--a lot of instrumentation and different instrumentals here and there," describes lead guitarist Jonah Kuhlman.

While they didn't have a name for awhile, it came to them after sharing a common hobby.

"We actually got together because of fly fishing, trout fishing, steelhead fishing, specifically at the time.  And the name Chasin' Steel is a slang term for steelhead fishing,"  says vocalist Adam Carpenter.

The band features all acoustic instruments including guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, and a dulcimer.

"It's very unique.  There's a lot of things you can do with it.  It's definitely something that you look at, and a lot of people don't know what it is.  It's an old, ancient instrument.  I kind of grew up playing, so I can really express myself through the dulcimer just because I've done it for so many years," Kuhlman explains.

If you'd like to check out Chasin' Steel for yourself, you can catch them at Flanigan's in Marquette on June 5.