Greg Landkamer of Watertown, MN plays lead guitar and sings for the group

Greg has a rock and roll background. He grew up in the Mankato area, where he learned piano, clarinet, and later, the guitar.
He played in a rock band in high school and went on to study music theory at Mankato State from 1973 to 1975.
Since that time, he has been involved in a series of bands for most of the past four decades.
He has made his home in Watertown, and has been a physics teacher at Lester Prairie High School since 1996.
Previous to joining Prairiegrass Band, he had been in a band with David Rue, an elementary music teacher at Lester Prairie, and they recorded a CD in 2002.
Later, he was part of the Row Buckers, that played a mixture of bluegrass and folk music.
He has composed some songs that are mostly rock, and one rock song he has turned into a folk song, which the band enjoys playing. They have plans to make it into a bluegrass tune.