Dom Flemons, and special guest, Tony Trischka, pay tribute to the banjo, and its revelatory place in American bluegrass music. Flemons and Trischka will both play a set, followed by an illuminating conversation between the artists, and a short collaborative performance.
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GRAMMY Award Winner, Two-Time EMMY Nominee, and 2020 United States Artists Fellow Dom Flemons is known as “The American Songster” since his repertoire of music covers over 100 years of early American popular music. Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, music scholar, historian, and record collector, and one of the founding members of The Carolina Chocolate Drops. He is considered an expert player on the banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug, percussion, quills, fife and rhythm bones.
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One of the most influential modern banjoists, both in several forms of bluegrass music and occasionally in jazz and avant-garde, Tony Trischka has inspired a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians. Emerging in the 1960s as a member of the Down City Ramblers, Trischka cemented his reputation as a modern bluegrass innovator in the '70s and '80s, all while maintaining a successful solo career which he sustains to this day. Not only is Trischka considered among the very best pickers alive, he is one of the instrument's top teachers as well, running workshops, releasing videos, and authoring numerous instructional books.
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