About this Event
Join us at Waynesboro Music for an initimate show with an exceptional trio.
Banjo player Bill Evans is a Steve Martin Banjo Prize recipient and a 2024 American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame inductee who now makes his home outside of Staunton, Virginia. Bill brings with him two long-time collaborators: fellow native Virginian mandolin player Steve Smith, who played with Bill & bassist Missy Raines in the Charlottesville-based band Cloud Valley in the early 1980’s, and the amazing Nashville-based guitarist Tim May, who has toured with such artists as Patty Loveless and John Cowan. Expect stunning instrumental virtuosity and sophisticated original compositions that reflect both the trio’s deep bluegrass roots and virtuosic jazz influences.
For more info, visit www.billevansbanjo.com, www.desertnight.com & www.timmaymusic.net.
Bill Evans has been involved with bluegrass music and the banjo for over forty-five years as a player, teacher, composer, writer and historian. He occupies a unique niche in the banjo world: he is celebrated worldwide for both his traditional and progressive bluegrass banjo styles and his innovative original compositions. He has recorded four critically acclaimed solo recordings, including Things Are Simple and The Banjo in America, a DVD/CD set covering music from the 1780’s to the present day. He is the author of Banjo For Dummies and Bluegrass Banjo For Dummies. He directs his own music camps across the United States and hosts five online instructional courses for Peghead Nation.
Steve Smith is a life-long musician who has performed around the United States and Europe playing bluegrass, old-time, swing and jazz and Roots/Americana, symphonic and theatrical music. For over 20 years, Steve led the Las Cruces, NM-based Hard Road Trio and he was a member of the Alan Munde Gazette bluegrass band. He has appeared on over 40 recordings and his music has been featured on the Discovery Channel. He currently tours with Nashville guitarist and vocalist Tim May and teaches at many music camps and individual workshops and clinics around the United States. He also hosts his own camps in New Mexico. He has toured with many of the greats in acoustic music including Alan Munde, Jim Hurst, Bill Evans and Missy Raines to name a few.
The amazing flatpicking guitarist Tim May has been working in the Nashville area for over 20 years as a sideman, session player, band member and performer. Higher profile projects have included touring with Patty Loveless and John Cowan and working as a regular on the Grand Ole Opry with Mike Snider. Tim was the solo guitarist on the Charlie Daniels recording of I’ll Fly Away, which was nominated for the Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammy in 2005. That same year he was session leader on the critically acclaimed Moody Bluegrass album. The Nashville Scene selected Tim in the Best Instrumentalist category in their 2012 Reader's Choice Poll.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waynesboro Music, 520 West Broad Street, Waynesboro, United States
USD 30.65
