Dark Waters Project

The Dark Waters Project is a Nashville based band that plays what they like to call, Darkgrass. Their music is a blend of multiple genre’s 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 bands 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 have been nominated at the 2025 The Josie Independent Music Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry for Americana Duo of the Year for 2025; and Cherish was nominated for Americana Female Vocalist of the Year for 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 servicemembers. 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.

Adam is one of the founding members of the band and is one of two lead vocals. He has been the lead singer of 3 different bands over the last decade, releasing an EP with 2 of them (The Fifth Seal; Stonesfall) and a solo album titled “Trails.” Influenced heavily by his Christian faith, he writes and sings from his soul and it can be heard in both his voice and lyrics. He had a song reach Christian radio in the mid 2000’s called, “Mercedes” with his former band, The Fifth Seal.

Cherish is one of the founding members of Dark Waters and is also one of the lead vocalists. She is often seen as the face of Dark Waters. Her voice is as stirring, beautiful and unique as Stevie Nicks or Jewel, but it’s all her own. She has worked with some of the best that Nashville has to offer. Mark Miller and Garth Brooks paid for and offered some of Garth’s band members to record her first album in her early career – the entire EP was produced, engineered and paid for by Mark Miller of Forerunner, Jacks Tracks and Allentown Studios. Mark’s production and engineering credits include Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Kathy Mattea, Chris LeDoux, George Jones. A few of the songs saw radio play all over the Southeast US. She has also been produced by George Cocchini (Third Day, DC Talk, Rich Mullins, Sawyer Brown, Steven Curtis Chapman). She has also worked with Crystal Taliefero, (Billy Joel, John Mellencamp) releasing a single titled, “Down to the River.” She released her second self-titled EP “Cherish” just before meeting Adam, but is now the heart of the Dark Waters Project.