Greg Adams - Special guest and dear friend

Greg C. Adams(www.myspace.com/banjargreg) is a musician, archivist, early banjo researcher and dear friend. He holds a BA in Music History from Youngstown State University and a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, Greg is working as a photo-archivist for an international organization in Washington, DC. In addition to his professional endeavors, Greg is developing a prototype research tool entitled the Banjo Sightings Database (www.banjodatabase.org) in collaboration with banjo historian and builder George Wunderlich.

Greg's independent banjo roots research (www.myspace.com/banjoroots) includes early banjo performance practice, the study of such West African instruments as the Jola akonting and the general study of early American black face minstrelsy. He regularly performs both historical and modern interpretations of 19th Century popular music throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Greg is a founding member of the Civil War Era string band "Acoustic Shadows of the Blue and Gray" (www.acousticshadows.com). He currently resides with his wife, Maggie, in Germantown, MD.

Home Front is, indeed, honored and pleased to be able to include Greg in our performances as scheduling and circumstances permit (if his puns don't kill us first!).