TICKETS: https://forms.gle/hqxRYxUtjdV4j7EN7
Time: Thursday November 6, 2025. Doors at 6:30, concert at 7:30 PM
Address: The Greenroom at the Bluebird Cocktail Bar, 3600 Hickory Ave, Baltimore, MD 21211
Price: $20 in advance // $25 at the door // $10 for students (with valid ID) and children under 18
Please choose one payment method:
VENMO: @raosban
PAYPAL: virgil.osban@gmail.com
CASH: at the door ($20 with RSVP, $25 without)
QUESTIONS? raosban@gmail.com
About Joseph Decosimo & Cleek Schrey:
Fiddler, banjoist, and singer Joseph Decosimo has introduced audiences around the world to the beauty and vitality of traditional music from the Appalachian South. Decosimo draws on years of study with older traditional players and collaboration with his contemporaries to create music that NPR All Songs Considered describes as “classic and current at the same time” and “pushing the sonic boundaries of old-time music ... gorgeous.” Fiery Gizzard, his 2025 Dear Life Records solo debut, reveals him as a powerful champion of traditional music – a sponge who soaks up as much as he squeezes out, a responsive artist who makes his genre accessible, and a magnet who can bring musicians of all sorts into his orbit with his same passion. He’s contributed to recordings by fellow Durham, NC projects Hiss Golden Messenger, Wye Oak, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, who compares Decosimo to “an astute jazz artist, with his perspective substantiated by a fundamental sense of melodic direction and delicate purpose.” Irish fiddle luminary Martin Hayes describes Decosimo’s trio recording Beehive Cathedral (Dear Life Records, 2024) as “grounded, subtle and refined.” He’s long been a key player in the US Old-time scene, winning a National Old-time banjo championship and a blue ribbon in the prestigious Clifftop fiddle contest. He has also led the prize-winning Old-time band the Bucking Mules (Free Dirt Records, 2017).
Cleek Schrey (b.1984, Bath Co., Va.) is a fiddler, composer, and improviser. He plays traditional music from Appalachia and Ireland as well as experimental music with a wide range of musicians. Schrey performs on the fiddle, the hardanger d’amore, a violin with sympathetic strings, and the daxophone, a wooden idiophone designed by Hans Reichel. His practice is preoccupied with the physical phenomena of vibrating strings and the histories and aesthetics of recording technologies. Collaborators include electronic music pioneer David Behrman, the viol da gamba player Liam Byrne, traditional fiddle icon Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and the late Fluxus artist Yasunao Tone. He has performed at the Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tenn.; Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny; SuperSense Festival of the Ecstatic, Melbourne; Issue Project Room, New York, N.Y.; Roulette, New York, N.Y. (in a program curated by Meredith Monk); and the Beckett in London Festival with Gare St. Lazare, London, among others. Recent releases include The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (Pagans, 2024), a recording of shape-note melodies transcribed for organs with Weston Olencki, and Beehive Cathedral (Dear Life Records, 2024), an album of traditional southern music with Joseph Decosimo and Luke Richardson.