Charley Groth
(lifted from his site...)
Charley is a powerful and versatile musician and a truly accomplished entertainer. His shows always include lots of humor and audience contact, and he knows just how to entertain various kinds of listeners in various performance situations. He's a dynamic singer. He's a strong instrumentalist, highly skilled on guitar, mandolin, slide guitar (Dobro), and other instruments. He's a songwriter and a teller of tales. His music, an eclectic and potent brew, ranges very widely across the musical spectrum. He's comfortable with many musical styles. Much of the music he loves and does is the roots music of America: swing, traditional jazz, roots country, folk, and more. He fingerpicks and flatpicks guitar in standard and alternate tunings, and in styles from jazz and swing to Doc Watson-style flatpicking. He plays jazz, ragtime, honky-tonk and country piano, and swing, ragtime, old-time and country music on mandolin. He plays the blues--and bluegrass--on Dobro. He has recorded several traditional folk melodies using Autoharp...and one wild march of his own composition called The March of the 10,000 Autoharpers (available on Charley's 2003 Grandpa Flatpicked CD).
