7:30pm doors, 8:00pm show
$20 ADV/$25 DOS

The Down Hill Strugglers is an old time string band. They have released albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Jalopy Records and are featured on the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film, "Inside Llewyn Davis" produced by T-Bone Burnett, Dreamland with Margot Robbie as well as other films and video games.

The band formed while hanging out at the home of their mutual friend Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders, where they also met bandmate and mentor John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers. Their music reflects and extends the strong feeling and diversity of sounds found on old commercial and field recordings from as early as the 1920s and 1930s. The Down Hill Strugglers carry forward the sounds of the old, rural America.

The band is:
Jackson Lynch - fiddle, voice, guitar
Walker Shepard - guitar, voice, fiddle, banjo
Eli Smith - banjo, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, pump organ

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Clinton Davis is an old time folk musician based in Southern California. A fifth-generation Kentuckian, Davis grew up in rural Carroll County. His repertoire spans fiddle and banjo music native to his family home, the exuberant ragtime piano and guitar of early 20th-century New Orleans, and ballad songs and dance music of the Southwest.
Davis' concerts are expansive in their mood, style, and instrumentation, with his only concern being to communicate the multi-faceted beauty of American music traditions wherever and however he finds it. A delicate expression on the banjo might lead to a powerful ragtime stomp on the piano. A ballad sung simply and directly can be followed by technical wizardry on the guitar.

The Down Hill Strugglers / Clinton Davis

The Down Hill Strugglers / Clinton Davis