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Stuart Ian Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life. Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band. He is married with three children.
Jul 8, 2020 · Stuart Duncan, speaking by phone from his home outside of Nashville, is at a loss over how to describe the beautiful dissonance of the just-released collaborative album, Not Our First Goat Rodeo.
The Goat Rodeo Sessions is a 2011 collaborative album by Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile, featuring Aoife O'Donovan. The album won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album and the Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
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On October 24, 2011, Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile (with Aoife O'Donovan) released their first album together, entitled The Goat Rodeo Sessions. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Classical, Classical Crossover, and Bluegrass charts and reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200. It also won the Grammy Award f...
The album features Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile on all 10 tracks. Aoife O'Donovan appears on 3 tracks as a featured vocalist. 1. Stuart Duncan – fiddle, banjo, vocals 2. Yo-Yo Ma– cello 3. Edgar Meyer – bass, piano 4. Chris Thile – mandolin, vocals, guitar, fiddle 5. Aoife O'Donovan– featured vocalist on tracks 3, 4, and 8
Not Our First Goat Rodeo has been received well by reviewers. Catherine Nelson of The Strad praised the album's complexity and "sheer joyfulness of expression". Writing for AllMusic, Matt Collar described the album as a "deeply engaging, often rapturous album that balances keen and studied musicality with an almost chaotic passion for group interpl...
Stuart Duncan. Acclaimed bluegrass fiddler known for his eclectic work with Yo-Yo Ma, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and others. Read Full Biography.
Interview: Fiddle Virtuoso Stuart Duncan. The Fretboard Journal doesn’t usually cover fiddlers (no frets on a violin, sadly), but when we learned that Stuart Duncan was about to hit the road with banjo powerhouse Noam Pikelny, we couldn’t resist talking to him.
Duncan, Stuart (14th April 1964-Present) He is a fiddle player, guitarist, banjo and mandolin player and singer-songwriter, occasionally listed on recordings with his first name spelt as “Stewart”, born in Southern California.
