Join us on September 24th at 7 PM at 68 Mountain Rest Rd. for a performance by banjo virtuoso and Unison favorite, Tony Trischka!
“Urban bluegrass whiz.” — Time Magazine
“The great banjo liberationist” — NPR
”(Trischka) is known as the father of modern Bluegrass.” — The New York Times
”Father of banjo fusion.” — The Wall Street Journal
Tony was born in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1949, and raised in a home filled with music. There were Broadway scores and a sweeping range of classical music, from Stravinsky to Beethoven. (The first thing Trischka learned to play on the banjo, in fact, was the Ninth Symphony.) The wide- open American vistas of Aaron Copland had an especially potent spiritual and visceral impact on him, as did the folk music his left-leaning father held dear. The Almanac Singers, the solo work of its founding members Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and Lead Belly’s children’s LP were in constant rotation…..to read more about Tony’s illustrious career click HERE
