The Music of Gribble, Lusk, and York Performance
📅 WEDNESDAY, 9/17
🕑 7:30pm
📍St. Luke’s Chapel (on Georgia Ave., across from the Alumni House)
Please join us for the music of Gribble, Lusk, and York performed by fiddlers Earl White, Victor Furtado, and Tray Wellington
Fiddling Earl White has been a mainstay in the oldtime, folk and dance community for more 45 years. An original and founding member of the famed Green Grass Cloggers, Earl is one of few Black Americans preserving and playing Appalachian style oldtime stringband music. Oldtime music was once an intricate part of Black communities and helped form the foundation for much of American music of today. Earl White is well known for his extensive repertoire of tunes, and his heartfelt, syncopated, driving style. He has played in numerous old time string bands, and he currently leads the “Earl White Stringband”. The Earl White Stringband has emerged as a favored dance band for both square and contra dances. The band performs at festivals and instructional music camps throughout the US and abroad. Earl co-owns the Big Indian Farm Artisan Bakery (bigindianfarm.com), which also sponsors events and camps via “The Fiddler’s Jam Inc” non-profit.
VICTOR FURTADO
Victor Furtado grew up in the heart of old-time and bluegrass music, where he learned clawhammer banjo. Self taught, he began creating his own unique styles of banjo playing, which earned him lots of attention in the banjo community. By age 12 Victor had appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, Woodsongs Oldtime Radio Hour, and won many banjo competitions, and he self recorded his first solo banjo album. Victor is a highly acclaimed banjo player and currently tours with “The Sam Grisman Project”, and occasionally with the Earl White Stringband. Victor also teaches banjo at instructional camps, and head the “Dirt Banjo School”. In 2019 Victor received the prestigious Steve Martin prize for excellence in banjo.
TRAY WELLINGTON
Banjo player Tray Wellington’ approach to the quintessential American instrument is all about looking forward. An International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner, Wellington is critically acclaimed, not only for his technical prowess, but also for leveraging his unique point of view to craft a one-of-a-kind voice on the instrument. With roots in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, Wellington subverts expectations and presuppositions of five-string banjo players artfully. His bluegrass and old-time traditional expertise are well honed. In 2024, Tray Wellington was a recipient of the prestigious Steve Martin prize for excellence in banjo.
