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Bruce C. Molsky (born 1955, New York City) is an American fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer. He primarily performs old-time music of the Appalachian region.
As a young man, Molsky first became interested in blues music, but eventually became absorbed in old-time music while studying engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, beginning in 1972. His playing was influenced by the fiddling of Tommy Jarrell, whom Molsky visited in North Carolina in 1976. He recorded with Bob Carlin in 1990.
Molsky has released several records on Compass Records, Rounder Records and Tree Frog Music under his own name. Besides his solo recordings he has also played with the bands Fiddlers 4 with Darol Anger and Michael Doucet, Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik and Anonymous 4 1865: Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War. Molsky is a guest on legendary guitarist Mark Knopfler's latest CD, Tracker, playing banjo, fiddle and guitar. He collaborated in 2008 with Norwegian hardingfele player and composer Annbjørg Lien on her CD Waltz With Me and subsequent concerts. He also appears as a guest artist on Andy Statman's 2011 double-CD, "Old Brooklyn" (Shefa Records).
Bruce Molsky - Jack of Diamonds / Picking The Devils Eye (2011)
Bruce Molsky - Red Rocking Chair (Live @Pickathon 2012)
2013.03.23 Bruce Molsky in Romney, West Virginia
"Piney Mountains"- Bruce Molsky
Old-Time Fiddling Tips by Bruce Molsky
Bruce Molsky - I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham (Live @Pickathon 2012)
Bruce Molsky - Chinquapin Hunting (Live @Pickathon 2012)
Bruce Molsky plays "Sail Away Ladies"
2015 Clifftop - Bruce Molsky and Allison de Groot @ Appalachain String Band Music Festival
Bruce Molsky "Lazy John-Rebel Raid" Live at KDHX 3/26/11
Bruce Molsky: vocal, guitar, banjo & fiddle - an amateur footage shot at Halkær Festival 4th. June 2011
Bruce Molsky (with Rushad Eggleston, Tatiana Hargreaves, and Jim Miller) perform "Red Rocking Chair" live at the 2012 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions in Portland, Oregon. For more awesome live performances from Bruce Molsky and other great bands, visit http://www.liveandbreathing.com http://pickathon.com
FOR BEST RESULTS SET YOUTUBE PLAYER QUALITY AT 480p Bruce Molsky at the Bottling Works in Romney, West Virginia. Presented by Hampshire County Arts Council (http://hampshirearts.org/).
Master fiddler Bruce Molsky performed this haunting ballad by the late Craig Johnson for "David Holt's State of Music," a new series for North Carolina Public Television that premiered on January 29, 2015. For more, visit DavidHoltTV.org ©Will & Deni Films 2015
Bruce Molsky shows you bow strokes that can help you achieve an authentic 'old-time' sound. Molsky is an American fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer. He primarily performs old-time music of the Appalachian region. He is a former member of Fiddlers 4 (with Darol Anger, Michael Doucet, and Rushad Eggelston). His latest album is "If It Ain't Here When I Get Back."
Bruce Molsky Band performs "I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham" live at the 2012 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions in Portland, Oregon. For more awesome live performances from Bruce Molsky Band and other great bands, visit http://www.liveandbreathing.com http://pickathon.com http://www.brucemolsky.com
Bruce Molsky, Tatiana Hargreaves, Rushed Eggleston, and Jim Miller perform "Chinquapin Hunting" live at the 2012 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions in Portland, Oregon. For more awesome live performances from Bruce Molsky and other great bands, visit http://www.liveandbreathing.com http://pickathon.com
Bruce Molsky performs "Sail Away Ladies" (in open C tuning - C G C G C E) in the Acoustic Guitar studios.
Bruce Molsky and Allison de Groot delighted Clifftop playing Bright Sunny South, Whoa Mule, and Getting Upstairs.
Old-time music multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky performs the song "Lazy John/Rebel Raid" live in the Magnolia Avenue Studios of KDHX in St. Louis, March 26, 2011 on the program "Down Yonder" with host Keith Dudding. Video by Phil Guignon and Andy Coco. Sound by Dan Kinney. Discover more great music (streaming audio, photos, video and more) at http://kdhx.org
From an interview with Bruce Molsky at Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School for The Groove is Not Trivial documentary.
Darol Anger and Bruce Molsky saw it down on Garfield's Blackberry Blossom and flog Bruce's new interview on the ArtistWorks/Darol Anger School Of Fiddle
"Diamond Joe & Blackberry Blossom", performed by Bruce Molsky (www.brucemolsky.com) & Ale Moller (www.alemoller.com) in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Takoma Park, Maryland, USA on March 24, 2012. Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. That must feel odd for a former engineer from the Bronx, who didn't begin a music career until he was forty. But folded into those strange facts is the secret to his unique genius. In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on fiddle, guitar, and banjo, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four, and Mozaik, with Hungarian Nikola Parov, and Celtic giant Donal Lunny. ...
In this segment of the public TV series "David Holt's State of Music," Bruce Molsky and David Holt play the traditional tune "Sally Ann" in the shadow of Round Peak in Surry County, NC where many traditional string band tunes evolved.
Òganaich Uir A Rinn M' Fhàgail (Oh Noble Youth Who Has Left Me) Julie Fowlis - vocals & whistle Bruce Molsky - harmony vocals Donal Lunny - bouzouki Jerry Douglas - dobro Aly Bain - fiddle Michael McGoldrick - Whistle Gerry O'Connor - Banjo Todd Parks - bass Donald Hay - percussion
"Red Rocking Chair", performed by Brittany Haas & Lauren Rioux with Bruce Molsky (www.www.laurenandbrittanymusic.com) in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Takoma Park, Maryland, USA on June 9, 2012. Bruce Molsky Presents: "Traditional music continues to evolve with time and place, a perpetual, joyful work in progress . Brittany and Lauren have both learned their lessons from old traditions but are also highly informed by what's new. That puts their intimate and soulful music in the forefront of what's going on in the acoustic music scene!" Many people know Brittany Haas from her time touring with Tony Trischka or with Darol Anger's Republic of Strings. Brittany grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide, and came to her unique sound through the ...
Bruce Molsky plays the Joseph Spence tune "Bimini Gal" (in dropped-D tuning) on a visit to the Acoustic Guitar studio. The tune is included on Molsky's 2013 album If It Ain't Here When I Get Back.
A live performance by Tony Trischka and Bruce Molsky for Watermelon Wednesdays. Recorded by Frontier Community Access Television at the West Whately Chapel in Whately, MA.
Bruce Molsky "Cotton eyed Joe" Live at Underneath the Stars Festival 2015 UTSf 2016 - 22nd 24th July tickets from underthestarsfest.co.uk www.facebook.com/UnderneathTheStarsFestival
Foghorn Stringband with Bruce Molsky and Travis Stuart at Old Tone Festival in Hillsdale NY 2016
Live at Clifftop 2016 @mountaindrifters
Bruce Molsky and Rafe Stefanini play "Sally Johnson" with Chester and Nick McMillian at the Mt. Airy, NC, fiddlers convention in 1991. Video by Linda Higginbotham, editing by Dane Sears.
Bruce Molsky and Paula Bradley perform at 'Watermelon Wednesdays', a summer concert series held at the West Whately Chapel in Whately, MA, produced by Paul Newlin, and recorded by Frontier Community Access Television.
Dave Goulder on the Jews Harp, Bruce Molsky on Fiddle and the dancing ladies of the Sutherland Steppers. This was a concert at Bonar Bridge Village hall in Sutherland on the 31st May 2016
Bruce performing part of an excellent set of solo old-time and roots material
Bruce Molsky's DVD & CD Set "Can't Stay Here This a-Way" is now available direct through www.OldTimeTikiParlour.com, brucemolsky.com, Elderly.com, County Sales and Amazon.com . A year in the making, we are proud to release Bruce Molsky’s most unique recording thus far. In grand Tiki Parlour style, it features a DVD & CD filmed and recorded by David Bragger. The set contains an informative booklet written by Bruce and old-time guitar genius/living encyclopedia Christopher Berry. It showcases tunings, history, personal anecdotes and of course the whimsical artwork of Angelina Elise. Bruce’s fiddle, banjo, guitar and vocal wizardry is beautifully showcased in Sight & Sound! www.oldtimetikiparlour.com
Alberta Street Public House, Portland, OR Song List: 01 - Give The Fiddler A Dram - The Georgia Horseshoe 02 - Lazy John - The Rebel Raid 03 - Knoxville Blues 04 - The Fare Thee Well Blues 05 - Georgia Belle 06 - The Golden Willow Tree 07 - Half Shaved 08 - On My Street 09 - Green Grows The Laurel* 10 - Cotton Eyed Joe* Musicians: ・Bruce Molsky (Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals) ・Darol Anger (Guest, Fiddle)* 【CGUBA149】Bruce Molsky 10/12/2006 01/16/2015
Recorded from Norwegian radio P2 in 2008 0:00 Blackberry Blossom 3:20 Peg And Awl 8:15 Unnamed willowflute and banjo 13:23 Cotton Eye Joe 17:33 Unnamed jews harp and fiddle 20:17 Unnamed
Tape 14 Friday, Jaunary 28, 7pm Emcee: G.W. Keyl Amy Ceder Reinke Hilary & Karen Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown Keith Nelson
This was quite a night of variations of traditional and neotraditional music and dance. Maeve is a Watermelon favorite and one of the world's leading harpist in the Celtic tradition. Cleek Schrey is a traditional Irish fiddler and pianist, as well as an accomplished step-dancer, from Charlottesville, Virginia. Nic is a percussive movement artist and has performed with The Chieftains, Dervish, Grada, Beoga, Teada, FIDIL, Le Vent du Nord, Genticorum, Dr. Anthony Barrand, Liz Carroll, Frankie Gavin, Martin Hayes, Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger, Tim O'Brien and Alasdair Fraser. Jordan Tice has, or will have, played guitar (especially of the Bluegrass tint) with everybody before much longer.
This is a one hour and three minute compilation of the fifteen best songs performed at Beaners Central in Duluth, MN from 7-15-2011 to 12-15-2011. Only those acts that were filmed by Little Shooters Documentary and Film were considered for this list. There were many factors that led to the creation of this list/video, but such reasons are always trivial. Here is the list...in case you don't have the time to watch the whole video. Little Shooters top 15 Beaners videos of 2011 4th Quarter—Sept 15th to December 15th 1. Gaelynn White--cold--mastered audio—10-20-2011 2. Three song sunday--Happily--9-24-2011 3. Mark Levings and Don Daniels--Minnesota Sucks--11-24-2011 4. Danny Friedman and the Beast Man Band—Dr. God--9-24-2011 5. Black River Revue--Time rolls on--11-24-2011...