Scott Ainslie

DESCRIPTION

Coming of age during the Civil Rights era and with his abiding affection for cross-cultural exchange, Scott Ainslie speaks about the Blues the way he plays them: with authority and passion. A community-based artist, Ainslie comes to the stage part storyteller, part historian, and all musician. Armed with three or four instruments – guitar, National slide guitar, a fretless gourd banjo and a diddley bow (one-string slide instrument) – with carefully chosen historical anecdotes and personal experiences with senior musicians across the South, Ainslie brings the African roots of American music out into the open.