Evie Ladin
Evie dances, sings, does the hambone and plays the banjo and yet it all seems very modern. The San Francisco Chronical puts it this way, "Evie Ladin is a natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve."
Evie Ladin plays old-time banjo. Listen and you can hear the whomp and jive of her clawhammer style, honest to the genre's Appalachian heritage. You also hear the instrument's African roots, the polyrhythmic heat and funk. Now listen to Evie's resonant voice and original lyrics and you hear the push and pull of life, you hear real, contemporary stories. Solo, as a duet or with her new quartet based in Oakland, CA, she is touring her solo debut release Float Downstream, produced by famed mandolinist and composer Mike Marshall and percussion master Keith Terry.
Evie is known to music fans as a driving force behind San Francisco's all-gal old-time teardown the Stairwell Sisters. Her new group is an expansive stringband, remarkably talented and quirky interpreters of new and old music. They tease out gorgeous beds of new trad music that support her ripe, catchy stories, and deep interpretations of old songs. The new music inspires Evie's rhythmic dancing that in live performance is a demonstrative, delightfully gorgeous storm.
