Submitted Photo: From left, Steve Strom, mandolin; Steve Eng, guitar; and Bill White, banjo, will perform on the Cassadaga Floating Stage Sunday. Not pictured is Mark Davis, bass.

CASSADAGA — You can’t teach an Old Dawg new tricks, but you can teach them the ways of bluegrass music, and you’ll be able to see Old Dawg Bluegrass perform on the Cassadaga Floating Stage Sunday from 5-7 p.m.

The band formed in 2007 and plays throughout the region.

This will, however, be its first stop in the village of Cassadaga, despite one of its members being Cassadaga’s own Bill White, who is the band’s banjo and dobro player.

There is no charge for admission; concert-goers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets or to come by boat to the floating stage, which was built in 2016 to grace the Cassadaga Beach shoreline for outdoor concerts to be held in the spring and summer.

The band also consists of Steve Eng, Steve Strom and Mark Davis. The four musicians have known each other for years, far before they decided to form Old Dawg Bluegrass, which is a fusion of traditional bluegrass, and gospel music mixed with jazz, country, blues and rock and roll.

Upright bassist Davis began his musical career by playing keyboards and violin in high school, before playing electric piano and banjo in the country-rock band Thunder Road. He then learned to play doghouse bass, and has even performed with the bluegrass bands Wind River, Carroll County Car Strippers and Thoroughbred.

Strom, who plays mandolin and dobro, comes from a western New York family of musicians, who he credits with developing his love for bluegrass music. He is well-versed on piano, guitar, banjo, Celtic folk harp, bass and pennywhistle. Strom has played with bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Charlie Waller, and John Duffey, and sits in with several other local bluegrass bands.

White’s musical career began in the 1960s when he played the guitar with a folk group called Bingham Trio and later played guitar with the gospel band Breakfast. He learned to play banjo and dobro before becoming member of several local bluegrass bands: Thoroughbred, Pine Ridge Review and Foxrun.

Guitar and banjo player Eng is originally from Pennsylvania. He started off as a jazz bassist in the late ’60s before later learning both guitar and bluegrass banjo. He also plays ragtime, jazz, country, blues and rock and roll guitar.

The concert is paid for by a grant from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County’s Projects Pool Grants Program.