www.steveandruth.com
Occupation: musician/audio engineer/producer

Gender: Male
Age: 77

My Instruments:
2012 Buckeye 12" Openback with 3 1/2" Deep Pot, Tubaphone Tone Ring, Curly Maple with Brass Hardware, Backstrapping and Custom Cole Style Inlay made by Greg Galbreath, Eggleston, Virginia
2012 Deering John Hartford Model Banjo with pop-on resonator
2010 Appalachian Mountain Style Fretless Banjo made by Charlie Glen, Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
2008 Buckeye Banjo - 12" open back, skinhead, curly maple neck and pot with rolled brass tone ring made by Greg Galbreath, Eggleston, Virginia
2012 Collings Custom 0003 Slothead guitar
2006 Martin OM28 Marquis guitar
1987 Martin HD28 guitar
1977 Unicorn A5 mandolin
1975 Martin D41 guitar

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
David Holt, Doc Watson, and all the old-timers like Fred Cockerham & Kyle Creed, Tommy Jarrell, Clarence Tom Ashley, Stanley Hicks, Hobart Smith, Dock Boggs, and Frank Proffitt Sr. just to name a few.

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Created 10/9/2009
Last Visit 3/1/2016

Steve Smith has been playing music professionally together with his wife Ruth for over 35 years. From their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, they have performed their Celtic Appalachian music extensively in the U.S. from North Carolina to Hawaii. They have also been cultural music representatives of the Appalachian region, touring abroad in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, and Canada. Ruth plays the hammered and Appalachian mountain dulcimers with Steve supporting on fingerstyle acoustic guitar, clawhammer and North Carolina uppicking styles banjo, and vocals. Steve and Ruth are 2009 JPF Best Instrumental Roots Music Album nominees in the world's largest independent music awards and are two-time recipients of North Carolina Arts Council grants. Steve and Ruth have performed on the national PBS TV series "Song of the Mountains" and their music is regularly heard on XM & Sirius satellite radio, Direct-TV and Dish Network music channels, Highlander Radio Networks, and acoustic music format radio stations around the U.S. They have been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, All Songs Considered, Thistle & Shamrock, and in Dulcimer Players News and Dirty Linen Folk and World Music Magazine. Steve, an ASCAP award-recipient song-writer, worked throughout the 1970s and 1980s in the music industry in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Since 1997 he has also been teaching audio production at Appalachian State University. Steve has a Master’s degree in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University with a major emphasis in Appalachian music and folklife, and is the recipient of the Cratis Williams Fellowship in Appalachian Studies. In the 1990s, Steve created, produced, wrote and hosted the weekly multi-state syndicated radio program, “The Appalachian Way,” about the music and folklife in Appalachia.