Molsky's Mountain Drifters - Tradition Steeped in Possibility
3 January 2018 6:30PM 5 Church Street, 5 Church Street, Bellingen, NSW, Australia.Bruce Molsky,
"one of America's premier fiddling talents" (Mother Jones) and Grammy-nominated
artist on fiddle, banjo, guitar and song is delighted to present his new group
already on tour in the US. Bruce's previous collaborations, with Anonymous
4, 1865 - Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War,
was released to rave reviews and was on the top 10 Billboard charts for weeks.
He is also a special guest on legendary guitarist Mark Knopfler's latest
CD, Tracker and is working on his 3rd album with Andy
Irvine & Donal Lunny's supergroup Mozaik. You can
also hear Bruce on BBC TV Transatlantic Sessions singing
with Joan Osborne, Julie Fowlis and fiddling with Scottish legend Aly Bain and
America's great dobroist Jerry Douglas. Bruce is also Berklee College of
Music's Visiting Scholar in the American Roots Program.
Allison de Groot combines wide ranging virtuosity and passion for
old-time music. With her own bands The Goodbye Girls and Oh My Darling, she has
played Trafalgar Square in London, Newport Folk Festival, Stockholm
Folk Festival, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Tønder Festival in Denmark.
Like Bruce, Allison loves collaborating and bringing new ideas to old music,
and brings a fresh approach to the trio.
Boston-based Stash Wyslouch is one of bluegrass's great young
genre-bending pioneers. He got his start as a guitarist in metal bands before
immersing himself in roots music as a member of The Deadly Gentlemen. Stash is
a veteran festival performer, having played at Grey Fox Bluegrass
Festival, Rockygrass, Merlefest, Savannah Music Festival and
others. Coming over from the punk-metal world, Stash brings great sensitivity
and real emotion to the trio, plus some superb guitar and vocal chops.