Matt Turk and C Lanzbom joined forces to form Deadgrass, a string bandadventure through Jerry Garcia’s musical world. Bassist Dave Richards,banjo player Boo Reiners and fiddler Kensuke Shoji complete this finegroup of seasoned pros exploring the life works of Jerry Garcia on theinstruments that first inspired him. Deadgrass celebrates and interprets themusic of Jerry Garcia, drawing from Old & in the Way, JGB, Jerry’s JugBand days and The Grateful Dead.A seasoned recording artist and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Turk is aveteran performer who has performed and recorded with Pete Seeger,opened for Judy Collins, The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple and theGrateful Dead's Mickey Hart...
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Matt Turk and C Lanzbom joined forces to form Deadgrass, a string bandadventure through Jerry Garcia’s musical world. Bassist Dave Richards,banjo player Boo Reiners and fiddler Kensuke Shoji complete this finegroup of seasoned pros exploring the life works of Jerry Garcia on theinstruments that first inspired him. Deadgrass celebrates and interprets themusic of Jerry Garcia, drawing from Old & in the Way, JGB, Jerry’s JugBand days and The Grateful Dead.A seasoned recording artist and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Turk is aveteran performer who has performed and recorded with Pete Seeger,opened for Judy Collins, The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple and theGrateful Dead's Mickey Hart. He has performed at the Clearwater Festival,Gathering of the Vibes, Atlanta's Music Midtown, Jazz at Lincoln CenterThe Capitol Theatre and The Beacon Theatre. Matt has recorded forWarner Bros Records with Gaby Moreno & Matter Music.Grammy award winner C Lanzbom is a touring and studio guitarist withproducing, performing, writing and engineering credits with Pete Seeger,Bruce Springsteen, Crystal Bowersox, Shlomo Carlebach and Soulfarm.C's studio, Sherwood Ridge, is a state of the art recording facility just northof New York City. C has numerous television and film song placements. Hisaffection and passion for Jerry Garcia’s music has been a major influence.Bassist Dave Richards performs in Hamilton on Broadway and hasrecorded and performed with The Indigo Girls, Rosanne Cash, BusterPoindexter, Madeline Peyroux, Jewel and Richie Havens. He has touredthroughout Europe, Canada and the USA, appearing at Ottawa Jazz,Toronto Blues festival, The Hollywood Bowl and Austin City Limits. At theage of 17 Dave was playing jazz five nights a week in Orlando, Florida withBilly Peebles, the drummer for Ray Charles on many classic Atlanticrecordings.Banjo player Boo Reiners is a multi-instrumentalist who has performed,recorded, filmed and toured with Dispatch, Phil Lesh, Al Kooper, PeteSeeger, Charlie Louvin, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, Michael Moore, AmyPoehler, Natalie Merchant, Martin Sexton, and many others. In the studioand on tour with world music pioneers The Klezmatics, he helped the groupto win their 2007 Grammy Award for "Wonder Wheel: Lyrics By WoodyGuthrie.”Jazz violinist Kensuke Shoji was born in Gifu, Japan. He joined his father'sbluegrass band as a teenager. As a young adult he moved to the U.S.A. tostudy jazz violin with Berklee String Department chair Matt Glaser, andworld renowned violinist Christian Howes. Dedicated to improvisation,Kensuke moved to New York City in 2013 to play with Alex Hargreaves,Barry Harris, Jacob Jolliff, Maria Muldaur and more
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