“… [G]ive me the banjo … When you want genuine music — music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose — when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!” — Mark TwainCharlie Whitescarver Photography At the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech with Jack Hinshelwood, Hollace Oakes and Berkeley Stewart.
Eight Point Star at Radford University.
Mammoth Donkey after a Blacksburg Square DanceWith the Indian Run Stringband at Rising Silo.Reed Tradition (mostly) with Fred Carper Jr.The Crooked Road Marching String Band just before we marched in Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s inaugural parade.Recording for JAM’s My Favorite Appalachian Folk Song project.Reed Tradition (with legendary square dance caller Lou Maiuri inserted)Ephraim Vause in The Black Horse, Thornton, UK
The Southern Cross Ramblers, half of whom came all the way from Australia to play at Galax.
The Mountain Music Makers in the Big Yellow Tent at the Old Fiddlers Convention.
On stage at the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax.
With some musical animals in the Big Yellow Tent.
Performing with Real Chaos.
The Ephraim Vause Memorial String Band.
Playing at Blue Ridge PBS.Devine, Werner and Thornton (but not in that order)
