POSTPONED* Aaron Jonah Lewis: Mozart of the Banjo Album Release
Sat, Apr 04
|The Robin Theatre
NEW DATE* SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: 7PM
Time & Location
Apr 04, 2020, 7:30 PM
The Robin Theatre, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI 48910, USA
About The Event
7:30 doors, 8PM show
$15 advance, $20 doors
Aaron Jonah Lewis is a champion fiddler who has been elbow-deep in traditional American fiddle and banjo music since his first lessons at the age of five with Kentucky native Robert Oppelt. 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. He is also noted for his mastery of multiple banjo styles. He spends most of his time teaching, touring as a solo performer, with the Corn Potato String Band, Lovestruck Balladeers, and other projects.
Lewis has appeared on dozens of recordings from bluegrass and old time to traditional jazz, contemporary experimental and Turkish classical music projects. He has taught workshops at the the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the…