Champion fiddler Aaron Jonah Lewis has been elbow-deep in traditional American fiddle and banjo music since their first lessons at the age of five with Kentucky native Robert Oppelt. Lewis has taken blue ribbons at the Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, WV, and at the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA, the oldest and largest fiddlers convention in the country. They are also noted for their mastery of multiple banjo styles.  They spend most of their time teaching, touring as a solo performer, with the Corn Potato String Band, Ragtime Banjo Revival and other projects.

Based in Detroit, Lewis has recorded on dozens of projects from bluegrass and old time to traditional jazz, contemporary  experimental and Turkish classical music projects. They have appeared at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C., the Philharmonie Paris Musée de la Musique, the New England Conservatory in Boston, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London.

As a banjoist, Lewis explores some interesting veins in the roots of Old Time, Bluegrass, Ragtime and Jazz music through their newest recording, “Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project.” This project is devoted to the music of the great English prodigy and virtuoso composer Joe Morley (1867-1937), who wrote a significant body of great banjo pieces in a technique that people today call “classic fingerstyle.”

This show will be at the Flamb-OWE-nce Community house located at 2492 Scottwood Avenue.