Mason Via

Early life Via grew up in southern Virginia and North Carolina.

Career A bluegrass singer-songwriter and guitarist, Via released his debut solo album, Up, Up, Up, in 2015. He joined bluegrass and Americana band Old Crow Medicine Show from 2021 to 2024; Via released a self-titled album on Mountain Fever Records in 2025.

Via headlined the Levitt AMP Sheboygan Music Series in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on July 3, 2025. On December 13, 2025, he performed at a benefit concert in Brown County, Indiana, supporting a local food pantry and a youth music charity. In 2026, Via partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association to support protection for United States national parks. He covered Woody Guthrie's protest song "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" with Lucinda Williams in 2026.

Via competed on American Idol season 19 in 2021 under the stage name Mason Picks.

Critical reception Reviewing Via's 2025 self-titled album, The Aquarian Weekly said its tracks "exemplify modern bluegrass at its best".

Via was nominated by the International Bluegrass Music Association for New Artist of the Year for 2026.

Discography

As solo artist Year Album Record label 2015 Up, Up, Up Self-released 2018 Tom Mindte & Mason Via with Tom Mindte 2022 Paint This Town ATO Records 1