The Dark Waters Project is a Nashville based band that plays what they like to call, Darkgrass. Their music is a blend of multiple genres but is greatly influenced by Bluegrass, Americana and Alternative Rock. The band has a long list of previously played venues and positive reviews from all over North America and from countless people in the music industry. Dark Waters is led by vocal duo Cherish Hamby and Adam Hamby. Cherish and Adam do a vast majority of the band's songwriting, with occasional covers that they love to make their own.
They have won multiple awards for songwriting and performance; including The Smoky Mountain Songwriting Festival, where they finished 1st in the Pop (Dream Again), Blues (Deep Red) and Rock (Sober) genera’s, 2nd in Bluegrass (Bridges) and won the Grand Prize / Song of the Year with their song, “Deep Red” in 2018. They have also been featured on radio and nationally televised shows, like The Dugger Mountain Music Hall, The Blue Plate Special and Jim Parker’s Songwriters Showcase. They have played in numerous festivals and been featured on countless podcasts. They finished in the top 3 of the Nashville Rising Song Contest in 2017 and 2019. They were finalists on the Old Grey Idol Contest in 2024. They were nominated at the 2025 The Josie Independent Music Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN for, “Americana Duo of the Year for 2025;” Cherish was nominated for, “Americana Female Vocalist of the Year for 2025;” and they were finalists for the coveted award of, “Entertainers of the Year 2025.”
Adam and Cherish have had a number of different band members over the last 9 years, from small 3 piece acts to large 7 piece groups. From 2012-14, they had a 5 piece Alternative Rock band often described as The Civil Wars fronting Evanescence. They had their first collaborative album titled, “The Rains”, produced in the Fall of 2014 by Mike Hartnett. Their new album, titled, “The Darkgrass Sessions” was released in July 2019 and was their second album together. The Darkgrass Sessions was produced by Lee Groitzsch, with a number of the songs co-produced by Noel Golden. They released a single titled, “War Inside Myself,” in November 2021, produced by Ren Renfree. The song was acclaimed in the military community, as it was written to bring awareness to PTSD among US service members. As of August 2025, they are currently in the studio again working on 3 radio singles that will be released in the Fall and Winter of 2025 and their new Album will be released in the Spring of 2026. The 1st of the 3 new singles, “Hell of a View” was released to Country Radio on September 5th, 2025.
