Sunday,
April 29, 2012
7pm
Bruce Molsky
$18 in advance /$20
day of show
Doors open at 6:30pm
"The Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddle."
- Darol Anger, fiddler
"There's an incredible power of history and tradition in his vocals."
- Linda Ronstadt
Bruce Molsky, admired far and wide for the mystical and authentic qualities he brings to roots music, returns to Crossings' stage Sun., April 29, at 7 p.m.
Grammy-nominated Molsky is revered for his fiddling, and sings and plays guitar and banjo. In fact, he stands today as the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions, a feat even more incredible because he didn’t start playing until age 18, and didn’t make music his full-time profession until after his 40th birthday.
In addition to a prolific solo career, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four, and Mozaik, with Hungarian Nikola Parov, and Celtic giant Donal Lunny. He was on Nickel Creek's farewell tour, and performs in a trio with Scottish fiddler Aly Bain and Sweden's great Ale Möller.
“Playing in these kinds of groups is an important part of what I do,” Molsky says. “Regionalism was one of the hallmarks of traditional music in the old days; now we're in the Information Age, and I don't think that's what folk music does anymore. But the more cultures I discover, the more I realize that folk music performs the same function for everybody; and therefore is the same thing everywhere - just spoken with different accents.”
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