Deadgrass – A string band jamgrass adventure through Jerry Garcia’s musical world

Matt Turk and C Lanzbom joined forces to form

Deadgrass, a string band adventure through Jerry

Garcia’s musical world. Bassist Dave Richards, banjo

player Boo Reiners and fiddler Kensuke Shoji complete

this fine group of seasoned pros exploring the life works

of Jerry Garcia on the instruments that first inspired him.

Deadgrass celebrates and interprets the music of Jerry

Garcia, drawing from Old & in the Way, JGB, Jerry’s Jug

Band days and The Grateful Dead.

A seasoned recording artist and multi-instrumentalist,

Matt Turk is a veteran performer who has performed and

recorded with Pete Seeger, opened for Judy Collins,

The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple and the Grateful

Dead’s Mickey Hart. He has performed at the

Clearwater Festival, Gathering of the Vibes, Atlanta’s

Music Midtown, Jazz at Lincoln Center The Capitol

Theatre and The Beacon Theatre. Matt has recorded for

Warner Bros Records with Gaby Moreno & Matter

Music.

Grammy award winner C Lanzbom is a touring and

studio guitarist with producing, performing, writing and

engineering credits with Pete Seeger, Bruce

Springsteen, Crystal Bowersox, Shlomo Carlebach and

Soulfarm. C’s studio, Sherwood Ridge, is a state of the

art recording facility just north of New York City. C has

numerous television and film song placements. His

affection and passion for Jerry Garcia’s music has been

a major influence.Bassist Dave Richards performs in Hamilton on

Broadway and has recorded and performed with The

Indigo Girls, Rosanne Cash, Buster Poindexter,

Madeline Peyroux, Jewel and Richie Havens. He has

toured throughout Europe, Canada and the USA,

appearing at Ottawa Jazz, Toronto Blues festival, The

Hollywood Bowl and Austin City Limits. At the age of 17

Dave was playing jazz five nights a week in Orlando,

Florida with Billy Peebles, the drummer for Ray Charles

on many classic Atlantic recordings.

Banjoist Kris Bauman is a multi-instrumentalist who has

been performing professionally since he was sixteen.

His performances can be heard on many albums, and

he was featured with bassist Alexis Cuadrado on NPR’s

Studio 360. Bauman works in a variety of musical

genres including Country/Bluegrass with his group “The

Dang-it Bobbys”; Jazz as a leader and sideman,

including performances or collaborations with vocalist

Bobby Short, saxophonists Seamus Blake and Loren

Schoenberg, composer/arranger Jason Lindner, and

guitarists Kurt Rosenwinkel and Luca Benedetti; Rock/

Pop with engineer Mike Barnard (Christina Aguilera, The

Strokes) and Ilhan Ersahin (Nublu records); R&B/Soul

with recording artist Bilal (Interscope).

Jazz violinist Kensuke Shoji was born in Gifu, Japan. He

joined his father’s bluegrass band as a teenager. As a

young adult he moved to the U.S.A. to study jazz violin

with Berklee String Department chair Matt Glaser, and

world renowned violinist Christian Howes. Kensukemoved to New York City in 2013 to play with Alex

Hargreaves, Barry Harris, Jacob Jolliff, Maria Muldaur

and more.