Bentlage has company among Vermonters who could win Grammys at Sunday’s ceremony (see other Vermont nominees below). “I was truly shocked” at the nomination she shares with group members Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick and Amanda Taylor, Bentlage said. “I never even considered as a young person getting a Grammy nomination.” Up against Pat Metheny, Jacob Collier Speaking with the Burlington Free Press by phone Monday from her apartment in Los Angeles, Bentlage described how her parents, Sue and Jim Bentlage, are musicians as well as engineers. Being a composer and recording engineer, Erin Bentlage said, is not dissimilar to the “engineer brain” her parents have.