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Adam Tanner

Adam grew up in northern California and was exposed to early blues, old-time, and bluegrass music in his early teens. Proficient on fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, he spent countless hours slowing down records trying to catch every detail of the traditional music he loved. Over the last twelve years Adam has toured both the US and Europe as a member of The Crooked Jades, The Hunger Mountain Boys, and The Twilite Broadcasters. Adam teaches private lessons from his home and has been on staff at The Swannanoa Gathering music camp for the last eight years, and he is currently on the faculty of the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music program at East TN State University, and so far has produced eight recordings of traditional music.

Adam Tanner will present an evening of traditional American music in two parts: the first half of the evening will feature Jim Nelson joining Adam on guitar to play old-time fiddle tunes and songs from locations all over America including Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, and North Carolina along with a handful of mandolin tunes composed by Bill Monroe. In the second half of the evening, Valerie Jo Kirchhoff and Ethan Leinwand will join Adam to play some great blues from the 1920s and 30s.