Jonathan Allan "Jody" Stecher was born on June 1,1946 and is an American singer and musician.
12 Facts About Jody Stecher
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Jody Stecher is best known as a bluegrass and old time musician, playing banjo, mandolin, fiddle and guitar and two of his albums with Kate Brislin have been finalists for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.
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Jody Stecher plays sursringar in the Dagar gharana tradition of dhrupad.
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Jonathan Allan Stecher was born on June 1,1946, in Brooklyn, New York.
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Jody Stecher has collaborated with Krishna Bhatt on an unusual album of fusion music, Rasa.
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Jody Stecher met Kate Brislin in 1974, and they started performing actively as a duo in 1985; they married on 29 July 1987.
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Jody Stecher is regarded as one of the leading traditional folk artists in America, and his recordings have served a large and diverse group of musicians, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Martin Simpson, Seldom Scene, Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick, Alasdair Fraser and Hot Rize.
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Jody Stecher recorded the field recordings and wrote the liner notes for the record The Real Bahamas.
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Jody Stecher opened my ears to more beautiful music than anyone else ever did.
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Jody Stecher is one of my favorite musicians on Earth to play with.
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Jody Stecher has been twice nominated for a Grammy with his wife Kate: in 1993 for Our Town, and again in 1998 for Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips.
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Jody Stecher's sister, Janet Stecher, is a professional singer in the duo Rebel Voices and leads the Seattle Labor Chorus.