DEADGRASS

Deadgrass

Matt Turk and C Lanzbom joined forces to form

Deadgrass, a string band jamgrass 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 beena 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.

Banjo player Boo Reiners is a multi-instrumentalist who

has performed, recorded, filmed and toured with

Dispatch, Phil Lesh, Al Kooper, Pete Seeger, Charlie

Louvin, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, Michael Moore,

Amy Poehler, Natalie Merchant, Martin Sexton, and

many others. In the studio and on tour with world music

pioneers The Klezmatics, he helped the group to win

their 2007 Grammy Award for "Wonder Wheel: Lyrics By

Woody Deadgrass Guthrie.”

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. Kensuke

moved to New York City in 2013 to play with Alex

Hargreaves, Barry Harris, Jacob Jolliff, Maria Muldaur

and more.