Featured Musicians
Punkinfiddle has signed a strong list of talented musicians:
Joyce Andersen - fiddler, singer, and songwriter, with Harvey Reid playing acoustic stringed instruments.
Brendan Carey Block - US National Junior Scottish Fiddle Champion and three-time New England Champion 2000-2001, accompanied on guitar by his dad, Rich.
Halali
- this group of talented musicians will
play and sing their way into your heart and soul, joined by
Cara
Frankowicz's exciting fiddle playing.
Harvey Reid
Songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist Harvey Reid has honed his craft over the last 30
years in countless clubs, festivals, street corners, cafes, schools and
concert halls across the nation.
He has been called a "giant of the steel strings" and "one of the true treasures of American acoustic music." He has absorbed a vast repertoire of American contemporary and roots music and woven it into his own colorful, personal and distinctive style. His 17 recordings on Woodpecker Records showcase his mastery of many instruments and styles of acoustic music, from hip folk to slashing slide guitar blues to bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, ragtime, and even classical.
Reid's skills and versatility on the guitar alone mark him as an important
new voice in acoustic music. He won the 1981 National Fingerpicking
Guitar Competition and the 1982 International Autoharp competition. Yet
he's also a veteran musician with a long list of studio and band credits, a
strong flatpicker who has won the Beanblossom bluegrass guitar contest, a
versatile and engaging singer, a powerful lyricist, prolific composer,
arranger and songwriter, a solid mandolin and bouzouki player, and a
seasoned performer and captivating entertainer. And he plays the 6-string
banjo and the autoharp like you've never heard.