Photograph by Kore Io Eliza McWhirter
Robert Bruce Greene is known worldwide as one of the finest living exponents of old time Kentucky fiddle music. He is also a skilled old time banjo player, singer, and collector of traditional Appalachian music and culture. Bruce has lived and worked among the people of Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina for more than thirty years, bringing to his playing the profound intimacy and dignity he absorbed through his apprenticeships with musicians born as far back as the 1880’s.
Come visit and share some of Bruce’s experiences and memories. You can also read about and order his recordings.
"Greene's tape Vintage Fiddle Tunes is a wonderful collection of rare gems. Evidently we all owe him a giant debt not only for preserving scores of archaic central and eastern Kentucky fiddle pieces from fiddlers now passed on, but also for choosing to adopt the gentle, rolling bow of some of his teachers as his own. To hear him play...is to take a trip back in time. It is hard to imagine that this is a man in his (fifties) playing for us in the (twenty-first century)."
- Pete Sutherland, Sing Out Magazine