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Foghorn String Band
The Foghorn Stringband is the present day gold standard for real-deal hard-hitting genuine old-time American string band music, with nine albums, thousands of shows, over 15 years of touring under their belts, and an entirely new generation of roots musicians following their lead.
The Fox Family
Jim and Jamie Fox
Jamie Fox, fiddle
Jim Fox, guitar
Jamie Fix is an Aaniiih tribal member of the Fort Belknap Reservation in eastern Montana. At the age of 5 she got her first fiddle, for Christmas, which started a life-long love of the Metis Native American style of fiddling.…
Preston Frank
with Kevin Wimmer
Louisiana
button accordion, fiddle
Preston Frank’s musical journey was deeply rooted in the intimate setting of his family’s home, where the rich sounds of Zydeco and Creole music filled the air. His early exposure to music, a tradition passed down through generations, came through his father and uncles, who were all musicians, forming the warm and traditional bedrock of his initial inspiration.…
Ellika Frisell
Sweden
with Rafael Sida, percussion
Ellika Frisell was born 1953 and brought up in Stockholm. She later moved to Delsbo, a small village in the North of Sweden, where she cultivated vegetables and worked in a factory. It was during that time, in the middle of the 70´s, that Ellika began playing the fiddle and became village fiddler and dance musician.…
Alice Gerrard
North Carolina
Simply put, Alice Gerrard is a talent of legendary status. In a career spanning some 50 years, she has known, learned from, and performed with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats and has in turn earned worldwide respect for her own important contributions to the music. Alice is particularly known for her groundbreaking collaboration with Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s.…
Rhiannon Giddens & Friends
Rhiannon Giddens, fiddle, banjo and vocals
Justin Robinson, fiddle and vocals
Jason Sypher, bass
Justin Harrington, banjo
Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music, with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities, into just about every field imaginable.…
Rick Good
Faculty
One of the founders of the famous string band, The Hotmud Family, Rick Good is an accomplished guitarist, banjo player, singer and songwriter. A performer of traditional and original music, Good’s career has spanned nearly four decades.
Liz Hanley & Friends
Liz Hanley, fiddle
Jefferson Hamer, guitar
Eamon O’Leary, bouzouki
Liz Hanley is a Brooklyn based singer and fiddle player across many genres. Growing up in Boston in an Irish Hungarian American family, Liz learned traditional fiddle tunes from her father Andy Hanley, songs and stories from her grandparents Martin Hanley, Rita McNamara and Ray Nagy and family friends Brian and Lindsay O’Donovan.…
Tatiana Hargreaves
Faculty
Over the past decade, Tatiana Hargreaves has been on the forefront of an up and coming generation of old time, bluegrass and new acoustic musicians. From placing first at the Clifftop Appalachian Fiddle Contest, to her bluegrass fiddling on Laurie Lewis’ GRAMMY-nominated album The Hazel And Alice Sessions, Hargreaves shows a musical fluency that flows between old time and bluegrass worlds with ease.
John Haywood
Kentucky
banjo and fiddle
John Haywood is a banjo-playing tattoo and folk artist in Whitesburg, Kentucky. He owns and operates the Parlor Room Tattoo and Art Gallery – a tattoo shop that draws visitors from all over the world to Letcher County into the far southeastern corner of Kentucky. “Many come for a tattoo, and some to experience a little bit of our culture,” Haywood says of his shop.…