Bio

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. Based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours solo, as a duet or with her new quartet, supporting 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.

The Evie Ladin Band is:
Dina Maccabee - violin (Real Vocal String Quartet, Japonize Elephants)
Erik Pearson - guitar, Dobro (Crooked Jades, Mushroom)
Keith Terry - bass & percussion (Slammin, Crosspulse)

She can write, and she can sing, and she pulls back from the saccharine brink with just enough wit - a sharp intelligence. --Grant Alden, NO DEPRESSION

Evie Ladin is a natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve.
--SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Evie Ladin is a banjo player, step-dancer, singer, songwriter and square-dance caller with a lifetime of experience in traditional American cultural arts. She grew up in a trad folk scene up and down the Eastern Seaboard of the US, travels the world, and calls the rich arts scene in Oakland, California home. She also tours with The Stairwell Sisters, all-gal old-time teardown, and Keith Terry & Crosspulse, performing rhythm-based multi-cultural music & dance works. She teaches banjo, singing and dance at home in Oakland when you can find her there, and is ready to make the next record!

DISCOGRAPHY
Float Downstream 2010
Stairwell Sisters - Get Off Your Money 2008
Stairwell Sisters - Feet All Over the Floor 2005
Stairwell Sisters - The Stairwell Sisters 2003
Buckdancing for Beginners: The Basics of Southern Appalachian Flatfoot Clogging (2002) - Instructional DVD
Crosspulse - Professor Terry's Circus Band Extraordin‡ire 2002
Crosspulse - Body Tjak/The Celebration 2000

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