Description
Marshall Ballew is a singer/ songwriter, multi – instrumentalist, instructor, and music historian whose Appalachian roots laid the groundwork for his lifelong love of music in all its various forms and ages.
Event Details
Surrounded in his youth in the North Carolina mountains by the sounds of folk, old – time, and bluegrass, he took up the guitar at age 14 and began a stringman’s journey that would lead to study of the banjo, fiddle, dobro, Hawaiian guitar, lap steel guitar, tiple, oud, saz, and bouzouki.
He has performed at venues all over the southern US, and has taught dobro and Hawaiian guitar workshops and performed at a number of festivals, including Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Piccolo Spoleto, the Lake Eden Arts Festival, Arts & Minds Fest at Fur Peace Ranch, the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival, the Lowcountry Blues Festival, Greening Up The Mountains, the National Slide Guitar Festival, and many more. He has shared the stage with Jorma Kaukonen, David Lindley, Doc Watson, Cindy Cashdollar, Michael Reno Harrell, Christine Kane, Acoustic Syndicate, The Gospel Playboys, David Childers, and many others. His current solo shows run the gamut of American musical forms, from gospel, jazz, ragtime, and blues, to old – time, bluegrass, folk, rockabilly and rock and roll. His original songs reflect a spectrum of styles and subjects from all over the map, and are tinged with humor and insight.
He has performed at venues all over the southern US, and has taught dobro and Hawaiian guitar workshops and performed at a number of festivals, including Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Piccolo Spoleto, the Lake Eden Arts Festival, Arts & Minds Fest at Fur Peace Ranch, the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival, the Lowcountry Blues Festival, Greening Up The Mountains, the National Slide Guitar Festival, and many more. He has shared the stage with Jorma Kaukonen, David Lindley, Doc Watson, Cindy Cashdollar, Michael Reno Harrell, Christine Kane, Acoustic Syndicate, The Gospel Playboys, David Childers, and many others. His current solo shows run the gamut of American musical forms, from gospel, jazz, ragtime, and blues, to old – time, bluegrass, folk, rockabilly and rock and roll. His original songs reflect a spectrum of styles and subjects from all over the map, and are tinged with humor and insight.