Adam Hurt
Deemed a "banjo virtuoso" by the Washington Post, Adam Hurt draws on diverse musical influences from the North Carolina piedmont, the mountains of central West Virginia, the Ohio River Valley, and beyond to create his own elegantly innovative clawhammer banjo playing. At age 24, Adam has already placed in or won most of the major old-time banjo competitions including Clifftop, Mount Airy, and Galax, and won the state banjo championships of Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio, as well as the state fiddle championships of Virginia and Maryland. A gifted and respected teacher, Adam has conducted banjo workshops at the Swannanoa Gathering, the Augusta Heritage Center, and Appalshop, among other venues around the country.
In 2006, Adam released his second CD, "Insight," on the Ubiquitone label. This recording highlights Adam's innovative banjo playing both in solo settings and with accompaniment by Cathy Fink (guitar, banjo, bouzouki), Beth Hartness (guitar), Marcy Marxer (guitar, mandolin, uke), and Jarred Nutter (fiddle). The selections found on this CD represent a surprising diversity of traditional Appalachian music, running the gamut from Round Peak stalwarts to stringband rags, from a Bill Monroe original to three Ed Haley tunes recorded on clawhammer banjo for the first time.
Discography:
solo projects
-"Insight" (Ubiquitone, 2006)
-"Intrigue" (Copper Creek Records, 2002)
anthologies
-"Old Time Banjo Festival" (Rounder Records, 2007)
-"Banjo in the Clawhammer Tradition" (Jim Lloyd Productions, 2007)
-"Clifftop--Best of 2005" (West Virginia Division of Culture and History, 2006)
-"69th Annual Old Fiddlers' Convention" (Heritage Records, 2005)
participation on other projects
-debut CD by fiddler Chance McCoy (release expected in early 2008)
-"Headin' Up Elk Creek" by Jerry Correll (Heritage Records, 2008)
-"Banjo Talkin'" by Cathy Fink (Rounder Records, 2007)
-"Time Machine" by Dakota Dave Hull (Arabica Records, 2007)
Selected appearances:
-FOAOTMAD Festival--Gainsborough, England (2008)
-The Birchmere--Alexandria, Virginia (2007)
-Swannanoa Gathering--Asheville, North Carolina (2007)
-Augusta Heritage Center--Elkins, West Virginia (2006, 2007)
-Brandywine Friends of Old-Time Music--Newark, Delaware (2007)
-Folk Music Society of New York--Brooklyn, New York (2007)
-Folklore Society of Greater Washington--Rockville, Maryland (2007)
-Appalachian String Band Music Festival--Clifftop, West Virginia (2006)
-Strathmore Hall--Rockville, Maryland (2006)
-FOOTMAD Fall Fling--Beckwith, West Virginia (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)