Greg Ruby
7:00PM
Greg Ruby was given a Django Reinhardt LP when he was 19 and has been playing vintage jazz music ever since. His CD, Look Both Ways, featuring all original compositions, reached #1 on the Roots Music Review jazz chart. Greg currently leads The Greg Ruby Quartet, a Hot Club jazz group dedicated to all-original compositions; The Rhythm Runners a Prohibition-era dance band comprised of NY & New Orleans musicians; and Bric-a-brac a Valse musette and European café jazz style trio. As a former member of Pearl Django, Greg toured throughout the United States and Europe and appeared at the Festival Django Reinhardt in Samois sur seine, France. Greg’s compositions have been heard on television and documentaries including NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.”
Don Stiernberg
7:00PM
Don Stiernberg is a leading exponent of jazz mandolin style. He has nine recording projects of his own and appears on many others. The most recent of these is “Good Numbers,” featuring his trio playing accessible and swinging jazz tunes on mandolin, guitar, and bass.
While still in his teens Don learned to play mandolin from the influential and innovative virtuoso Jethro Burns, who referred to Don as his “graduate student”, hired him to play in his band, and guided him to a career as a professional musician. In addition to performing coast to coast and abroad with The Don Stiernberg Trio, he stays busy around his native Chicago on various sideman gigs and recording sessions, writes instructional materials for Mel Bay and Soundslice.com, and is a respected instructor at music camps and festival workshops.
Kevin Kehrberg
7:00PM
Kevin Kehrberg (Ashville, bassist) performs both jazz and traditional music. He has toured nationally and internationally, including Canada, Japan, and on U.S. State Department tours of Kyrgyzstan and Ecuador. Kehrberg has performed with Howard Alden, Slide Hampton, Roger Humphries, Jean Ritchie, and Art Stamper. His album credits include recordings with the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Billy Contreras, Rayna Gellert, Chris Sharp, and the Red State Ramblers. He resides in Asheville, NC where he is a member of the music faculty at Warren Wilson College.