Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing and playing the traditional music of the rural American South. With a rich repertoire of ballads, topical blues, and dance tunes, and his truly astonishing instrumental versatility on guitar, fiddle, banjo, pan pipes, autoharp, harmonica, and dulcimer, Mike illuminates the roots of American folk music. His authentic renditions, spiced with all the high lonesome tones and sliding pitches that give the music its unique character, convey the full depth of feeling, sheer energy, and infinite variety of the music. This true musical master is not to be missed!

Along with his sister Peggy and brother Pete, Mike absorbed a hefty dose of folk music from his musicologist and composer parents, which he later supplemented by studying with legendary musicians such as Elizabeth Cotton, Maybelle Carter, and Dock Boggs. A powerful figure in the traditional folk revival since the late 1950s, when he co-founded the pioneering New Lost City Ramblers, Mike is a six-time Grammy nominee and the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian Research Fellowship Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Some of his recent projects include True Vine and Early Southern Guitar Sounds (Smithsonian Folkways), an outstanding overview of guitar styles from the rural South of the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.