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| Celebration of Arkansas Roots Music - Part 2: Featuring Blue Rain Bluegrass Band, Still on the Hill, Nathan A, Scott Odena & The Peterson’s Orginal Ragtime Band and River Lee |
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BLUE RAIN BLUEGRASS BAND is a dynamic young bluegrass band from Mountain View, Arkansas. They recently won the Youth in Bluegrass Band Competition at Silver Dollar City in Branson where they performed, in the great bluegrass tradition of Bill Monroe and others, around a single microphone.
Website for Blue Rain Bluegrass Band.
STILL ON THE HILL is the folkgrass duo from the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This duo uses traditional instruments from their home in the Ozarks (mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar, harmonica and scrub board) as well as other exotic offerings (Moon guitar from Japan, African Mbira, and Tenor Ukulele) to create a kaleidoscope of musical color and texture.
Website for Still on the Hill.
NATHAN A. was born to play the blues. This blues kid is just a junior in high school and has been forcing second glances around Rogers and Fayetteville since he was 13 years old with his command of multiple instruments and musical maturity. The past two years, Nathan has represented the Ozark Blues Society in the International Blues Challenge Youth Showcase in Memphis, TN. Check him out here blowing some mean blues harp on the King Biscuit Time Radio Show.
Website for Nathan A.
SCOTT ODENA is a National Champion on mountain dulcimer as well as the 1998 Old-Time Singing Champion at the Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He has lived in Little Rock for the last 15 years. Scott will be performing with the Peterson’s Original Ragtime Band made up of David Peterson, a retired Professor of Math and the Director of the Ozark Institute at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, and his wife Donna.
RIVER LEE is an 11 year old fiddle champion from Springdale, AR. River began playing violin at the age of 4. National Champion Fiddler and Hee Haw star, Jana Jae first inspired River to take up the fiddle. River participates in many Fiddlin Arkansas events including the Arkansas Pickin' and Fiddlin' Championships held in Little Rock each October and various Master Fiddler Series. River will be joined on guitar by Jonathan Trawick who grew up in the hills of Ozarks.
Website for River and Jonathan.
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