Wayne Erbsen Photo by Tim Barnwell
Wayne is a master of a number of styles of music including old-time, bluegrass, folk, traditional, cowboy, pioneer, railroad, gospel and music of the Civil War. As a solo performer, he plays clawhammer and bluegrass banjo, fiddle, mandolin and guitar. His repertoire of songs is over one thousand. A typical program would include songs, stories, history and humor mixed with hot instrumentals. Wayne can design a program perfectly suited to the occasion and the audience.
If your festival, party, wedding celebration or conference is looking for a larger group, Wayne often performs with additional musicians as a duet, trio, or four-piece bluegrass or old-time band. He can even bring along an entire clogging team and/or dance caller.
Since the early 1960s, Wayne has performed in every kind venue imaginable including colleges, coffee houses, concert halls, historic societies, museums, clubs, and festivals both in America and in western Europe. He has recorded eighteen solo CDs and written twenty-five instruction and song books. (Visit http://www.nativeground.com/ for more details). Some of Wayne's recordings can be heard via Real Audio on the web site. Wayne has appeared on Sesame and his music has been selected to be distributed by NPR’s Wireless Catalog. Many of Wayne’s recordings have been included on numerous educational interactive CDs including American Heritage’s CD of the Civil War and Microsoft’s Encarta 2004. He has won numerous prizes at fiddler’s conventions including 1st place clawhammer banjo (Galax, Virginia, 1973) and 1st place senior old-time fiddler (Fiddler’s Grove, NC 2004). Wayne has recently been included in North Carolina Arts Council’s Touring Arts Directory. For the past twenty-two years, Wayne has had his own radio show called "Country Roots" on Asheville’s public radio station, WCQS, 88.1 FM.
For information about open performance dates and fees, call Wayne at (828) 299-7031, or email him at
banjo@nativeground.com"I'd like to thank you for the splendid program you did for us. You blended just the right amount of history and music and the audience participation was perfect. Thanks so much for a lively evening." Carrie Holthouser, Western N.C. Civil War Roundtable.
Thanks for the excellent
programs you brought to Harnett County, NC. Everywhere I've been the
past few days, people are talking about the concert. Thank you for
being willing to bring your gifts so far."
Susan Morrow, Harnett County
Schools.
Wayne Erbsen, Musician
109 Bell Road
Asheville NC 28805
Office: (828) 299-7031
Fax: (828) 298-5607
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