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Charm City Junction
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Charm City Junction 

- acoustic 'roots' quartet from Baltimore, they have a fresh take on the traditional music genres.  Patrick McAvinue (fiddle & mandolin), Brad Kolodner (clawhammer banjo - taught some workshops at the recent Fiddle Hell!), Sean McComiskey (button accordion), Alex Lacquement (dbl bass).  I really like that they give Alex some time to shine.

I happened upon their music when searching for a recording of 'Once Upon A Time In Beara' (link is to notation) - so I'll start learning it. 

 

Quite a few other tunes on their albums caught my ear... 'Farewell Tennessee', was one. 

 

There's some great Charm City Junction live videos on YT, plus their albums:

Salt Box Album Playlist 

Duckpin Album Playlist 

Snowball Album Playlist

 

Btw, Brad's father (Ken) plays the fiddle & hammered dulcimer.  More about their playing - Brad and Ken Kolodnor

My rabbit hole also led me to the 'Walking Stones Album Playlist' - Laura Risk (fiddle - taught workshops at the recent Fiddle Hell) and Robin Bullock (guitar, mandolin, cittern) both balance out Ken Kolodnor's playing.  31 very enjoyable tracks!

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Those are great!.  Brad was palying with George Jackson in town one night not long ago and I was able to a copy up.  Those two put on a good show.  Great music!

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