Bruce Molsky

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Bruce Molsky is a self-described street kid from the Bronx who opted out of college and big city life in the 70s to live in a cabin in Virginia and learn authentic Appalachian mountain music at the feet of its legendary pioneers.

Today Bruce is one of the most revered ambassadors for America’s old-time mountain music. For decades he’s been a globetrotting performer, ethnomusicologist and educator, a recording artist with an expansive discography including seven solo albums, well over a dozen collaborations and two Grammy-nominations. He’s also received high praise from diverse fans and collaborators such as Linda Ronstadt, Mark Knopfler and many more.

On stage Bruce transports his audience to another time and place, with his authentic feel for, and unearthing of, almost-forgotten rarities from the Southern Appalachian songbook. Seducing audiences with a combination of rhythmic and melodic virtuosity and relaxed conversational wit, he is renowned for making the largest venue feel like an intimate living room session.

‘Bruce Molsky is one of those great players who 'gets it': has all the links to the past but is happy not to be chained to it’ - Mark Knopfler

‘Molsky is easily one of the nation's most talented fiddlers...he transports you ... geographically, historically, and most of all emotionally’ - Mother Jones

‘It is no exaggeration to say that Bruce Molsky is one of the greatest American fiddlers of all time. His playing is mesmerizing and transporting, and best experienced live’
- WBUR (Boston NPR)

‘An absolute master’ - No Depression

‘An incredible power of history and tradition in his vocal’ - Linda Ronstadt

‘One of the world's premier Appalachian-style fiddlers’ - Bloomberg News

‘A mystical awareness of how to bring out the new in something that is old’
- Mark O'Connor