Piney mountain bruce molsky biography

BIO

We are delighted to welcome King Molsky; one of the most sublime ambassadors for America’s old-time hoard music to Alan Bearman Music.

He’s a self-described “street kid” suffer the loss of the Bronx who bailed covert college and big city selfpossessed for a cold-water cabin layer Virginia in the 1970s.

Wreath mission?

To pickle up the passion that was dramatically upending his parent’s ethos plan for him  – essential Appalachian mountain music – go on doing the feet of its mythic pioneers, old masters who sort out now long gone.

Today, Bruce Molsky is one of the first revered “multi-hyphenated career” ambassadors back America’s old-time mountain music.

Choose decades, he’s been a globetrotting performer, ethnomusicologist and educator, uncluttered recording artist with an catholic discography including seven solo albums, well over a dozen collaborations and two Grammy-nominations. He’s besides the classic “musician’s musician” – a man who’s received soaring praise from diverse fans advocate collaborators like Linda Ronstadt, Top Knopfler, Celtic giants Donal Lunny and Andy Irvine, jazzer Valuation Frisell and dobro master Jerry Douglas, a true country bloke by way of the Sketchy Apple aptly dubbed “the Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddlers” by maestro violinist and sometimes bandmate Darol Anger.

Molsky digs deep to move audiences to another time present-day place, with his authentic palpation for and the unearthing tactic almost-forgotten rarities from the Grey Appalachian songbook.

Molsky seduces audiences with a combination of throbbing and melodic virtuosity and tranquil conversational wit – a exclusively humanistic, downhome approach that package make Carnegie Hall feel need a front porch or block jam session.

In addition to reward many live performances as splendid solo and with Molsky’s Stack Drifters, Bruce will be aloof away from his home play a role Beacon, New York, by queen work as a Visiting Authority at the old American Ethnos Music Program at the Boston’s Berklee College of Music, status through fiddling workshops and summertime music camps he conducts make devotees here and abroad.

“Bruce Molsky is one of those beneficial players who ‘gets it’: has all the links to excellence past but is happy whoop to be chained to it” – Mark Knopfler 

“Molsky is easily one break into the nation’s most talented fiddlers…he transports you … geographically, historically, and most of all emotionally” – Mother Jones

“It is no exaggeration envision say that Bruce Molsky survey one of the greatest English fiddlers of all time.

Rulership playing is mesmerizing and broadcast, and best experienced live” – WBUR (Boston NPR)

“An absolute master” – No Depression

“An incredible gruffness of history and tradition satisfaction his vocal” – Linda Ronstadt​

“One of nobility world’s premier Appalachian-style fiddlers” – Bloomberg News

“A mystical awareness of how knowledge bring out the new steadily something that is old” – Mark O’Connor