"Jayme Stone's Lomax Project" at the Firehouse Center for the Arts

Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboration brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to revive, recycle and re-imagine traditional music.
Jayme Stone (banjo) | Margaret Glaspy (voice) | Brittany Haas (fiddle) | Eli West (guitar, voice) | Joe Phillips (bass)

The repertoire includes Bahamian sea chanteys, African-American a cappella singing from the Georgia Sea Islands, ancient Appalachian ballads, fiddle tunes and work songs collected from both well-known musicians and everyday folk: sea captains, cowhands, fishermen, prisoners and homemakers.

Collaborators include Grammy-winning songwriter Tim O’Brien, Bruce Molsky, Margaret Glaspy, Moira Smiley, Eli West, Brittany Haas, Julian Lage,Greg Garrison, and more.

The project has transformed performing arts centers (Colorado Chautauqua, The Strathmore), universities (Tufts, East Tennessee State), and festivals (Vancouver Folk, Rockygrass, Celtic Connections) into creative hubs where eminent musicians gather to re-imagine their roots, create new music, and share their collective cultural heritage with diverse audiences.

Out March 3, 2015 on Borealis Records, a new recording of nineteen songs includes a 54-page booklet with extensive song notes, a foreword by Grammy-winning scholar Stephen Wade, and photo essay by longtime Nonesuch photographer Michael Wilson.