Woody Mann, Host
Tony Rice and Peter Rowan, in a rare appearance as a duet
This pairing of long-time friends and musical legends Peter Rowan and Tony Rice is a musical marriage made in heaven. Rowan’s one of the most expressive and resonant vocalists around and Rice is one of the most inventive and imaginative flat-picking guitarists of all time. |
Tony Trischka and His Banjo Event International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Award Winner:
The avant-garde banjo sylings of Tony Trischka inspired a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians; he is not only considered among the very best pickers, he is also one of the instrument’s top teachers, and has created numerous instructional books, teaching video tapes and cassettes. |
Tim Reynolds
Tim Reynolds is a gifted guitarist who often collaborates with Dave Matthews. Throughout the ‘90s he slowly became recognized as one of the impeccable, highly skilled acoustic musicians in the areas of jazz guitar, bass, piano, sitar, mandolin, violin, and various instruments of ethnic percussion. He is an underrated master. |
Cephas and Wiggins; Honeyboy Edwards
Cephas & Wiggins are leading exponents of the Piedmont Blues - specifically the Piedmont-style guitar, featuring alternating thumb and finger, with the thumb creating a steady, loping bass as the melody is simultaneously picked out on the treble strings.
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Henry Butler
A five-time W.C. Handy “Best Blues Instrumentalist - Piano” award nominee, Henry Butler knows no limitations. Playing piano since the age of six, Butler is a master of musical diversity. Combining the percussive jazz piano playing of McCoy Tyner and the New Orleans style playing of Professor Longhair through his classically-trained wizardry, Butler continues to craft a sound uniquely his own. A rich amalgam of jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, R&B and blues influences, his music is as excitingly eclectic as that of his New Orleans birthplace. |
The Bobs
Western Onion went broke. Say what? Yep, they went broke, leaving all the singing telegram deliverers broke and unemployed. That was the Great San Francisco Singing Telegram Depression of 1981. Two of the unemployed were Gunnar Madsen and Matthew Stull. They placed a twenty-five-words-or-less ad in the free classifieds, looking for a bass singer. They got one call, from Richard 'Bob' Greene, who was not only a bass but a songwriter and recording engineer. |
Jorma Kaukonen and Barry Mitterhoff
In a career that has already spanned nearly a half century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar, one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. He was a founding member of two legendary bands, The Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna, and a Grammy nominee for his highly acclaimed “Blue Country Heart.” |
Happy and Artie Traum
"Between them they've been studio musicians, composers, comedians, writers, editors, folklorists, and a host of other things.... A brilliant and unique entity in the world of country-folk music." After a career of more than four decades, Happy and Artie Traum have often been called "guitar legends" of the folk and acoustic music scene. Their early albums on Capital (Happy & Artie Traum and Double Back) and Rounder Records (Hard Times In The Country, Mud Acres, Woodstock Mountains Revue) earned them raves as guitarists, songwriters, producers and world-class performers. Rolling Stone Magazine called them "prime movers of the Northeast sound developed by Dylan, The Band and others." Happy and Artie have performed at Carnegie Hall, The Newport Folk Festival, The Philadelphia Folk Festival and at numerous other stages throughout North America, Europe and Japan. They have produced and/or performed with Bob Dylan, The Band, John Sebastian, Bela Fleck, Pete Seeger, Livingston Taylor and countless others. |
Chris Smither
Some artists continually reinvent themselves; others identify their muse early on and spend their careers single-mindedly pursuing it, remaining recognizably themselves through a career-long process of refinement, growth and discovery. Chris Smither belongs to the latter group. Leave the Light On, Smither's masterful twelfth album—the first he's released on his own Mighty Albert label—stands as the quintessence of his life's work. But Smither's central theme as he enters his 60s is clearer than ever. |
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