Bruce Molsky

During the 1970s there was a resurgence of interest in the traditional music of rural America that has come to be known generically as "old-time" music, particularly in the driving, rhythmic string band sound of the southern Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains. Like many people who discovered this music during their high school and college years, New York City native Bruce Molsky was drawn to it as much by the social and communal side of it as by the power and drive of the music itself. Born of an age when isolated communities gathered to play and dance for their own entert...