Excerpt selection: Diversity in Old-time and Bluegrass Music
Earl White and Tray Wellington
This video is a discussion between EARL WHITE and TRAY WELLINGTON.
EARL WHITE is a dancer and an old-time fiddler. An original and founding member of the famed Green Grass Cloggers, White’s energetic, rhythmic, driving fiddle style is attributed to many years of dancing with the group.
White plays fiddle with the Earl White Stringband and has a farm and bakery in Willis, Virginia.
TRAY WELLINGTON is a bluegrass banjo player from Ashe County, North Carolina. He started playing as a teenager, going to fiddlers’ conventions and playing with the band, Cane Mill Road, and has gone on to form the Tray Wellington Band.
Tray recently moved to Raleigh to join the Pinecone organization as their Communications Manager.
Topics covered in the discussion:
- Intro Music: Tray Wellington Band “Boolin”
- Early Inspirations
- On Being the Only Black Performer
- Diversity in Old-time and Bluegrass Music
- Diversifying the Audience
- Outro Music: Earl White Band “Hickory”