Doors and bar at 7pm - Music at 7:30 - $20 advance tickets - $25 at the door
This will be a fully seated, listening room style show.
We are in for a very special evening of music for this show. Hannah O'Brien & Grant Flick play a mix of original compositions and traditional pieces from various fiddling traditions. Opening the evening is Detroit based, modern day banjo virtuoso Aaron Jonah Lewis a champion fiddler who has been elbow-deep in traditional American fiddle and banjo music since the age of five.
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About the artists
HANNAH O’BRIEN & GRANT FLICK
Initially connecting at the University of Michigan, they found common ground despite coming from different backgrounds with Hannah from Classical and Irish fiddling and Grant from American improvisational idioms. In 2021 they released their first duo record, “Windward,” and look forward to releasing their second record in August 2024. The duo has received multiple prizes including the Binkow Chamber Music Grant, U-M Excel Enterprise Grant, and the Club Passim Iguana Fund, as well as participating in the Honeywell Arts Resonance Week as Festival Artists. While the duo feels at home on double fiddle, they also change instrumentation often incorporating tenor guitar and nyckelharpa. Their musical interests are broad and as a result, their programs showcase an eclectic assemblage of repertoire.
AARON JONAH LEWIS
Aaron Jonah Lewis is champion fiddler who has been elbow-deep in traditional American fiddle and banjo music since their first lessons at the age of five with Kentucky native Robert Oppelt. flaying Lewis has taken blue ribbons at the Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, WV, and at the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA, the oldest and largest fiddlers convention in the country. They are also noted for their mastery of multiple banjo styles. They spend most of their time teaching, touring as a solo performer, with the Corn Potato String Band, and other projects. Based in Detroit, Lewis has recorded on dozens of projects from bluegrass and old time to traditional jazz, contemporary experimental and Turkish classical music projects. They have appeared at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C., the Philharmonie Paris Musée de la Musique, the New England Conservatory in Boston, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. As a banjoist, Lewis explores some interesting veins in the roots of Old Time, Bluegrass, Ragtime and Jazz music through their newest recording, “Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project.” This project is devoted to the music of the great English prodigy and virtuoso composer Joe Morley (1867-1937), who wrote a significant body of great banjo pieces in a technique that people today call “classic fingerstyle.”