Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam

“When the great Tony Trischka starts playing his banjo, the clouds part, the sun shines, and for a while it feels like all’s well with the world.” Sean Wilentz (American Historian)

Tickets: $30 (fees not included)

In this special show banjo great Tony Trischka honors the music of Earl Scruggs, pioneer of the three-finger banjo style and one of the two most important musicians in bluegrass.

Trischka recently came into possession of extremely rare recordings of jam sessions with Scruggs and John Hartford, and he’ll be debuting Scruggs’s note-for-note solos from a few of these. Together with Michael Daves on vocals and guitar, they will trace the story of Scruggs from his childhood to his final years.

“Earl is my North Star, a lifetime pathway. And I’m not alone,” says Trischka, a banjo innovator and educator who has influenced everyone from Béla Fleck to Steve Martin. “Through his music, this shy kid from Flint Hill, North Carolina, went on to enrich countless thousands of lives."