Hog-Eyed Man and Friends: "Across the Sea" Project

As Hog-Eyed Man, Jason Cade and Rob McMaken have developed a compelling approach to the archaic fiddle
traditions of the Southern Appalachians. For this concert, the duo is joined by two friends: Tallahassee-based
Paddy "Otis" League—a master of both Irish and Greek music—and Michael Starkey, a talented clawhammer
banjo player living in the northwest highlands of Scotland who is already making waves in the States.
Cade, whose fiddling has won the coveted blue ribbon at Clifftop, learned much of his music in Celo, NC from
neighbors like Bruce Greene, the legendary fiddler and tune-collector. Cade has lived in Ireland three times,
including a year each in Cork and Dublin, where he also developed a great appreciation for that country’s
traditional music. McMaken, a north Georgia native who honed his chops busking with a mandolin in New
Orleans, is one of today’s leading mountain dulcimer players. They are perfectly paired with their
collaborators. Starkey’s engaging clawhammer banjo-playing assuredly percolates into that elusive balance of
melody and rhythm, while League switches between open-tuned guitar, trichordo bouzouki, and bodhran (the
irish frame drum), adding just the right color and groove to each tune.

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