Anthony Cattell Trischka was born on January 16,1949 and is an American five-string banjo player.
12 Facts About Tony Trischka
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Tony Trischka toured with the show in 1978, the year he played with the Monroe Doctrine.
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In 1978, Tony Trischka toured Japan and recorded with Peter Rowan and Richard Greene.
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Tony Trischka produced the Belgian group Gold Rush's No More Angels in 1988.
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Tony Trischka recorded the theme song for Books on the Air, a popular National Public Radio show, and continued his affiliation with the network by appearing on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, From Our Front Porch, and other radio shows.
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Tony Trischka continued his recording career with 1993's World Turning, 1995's Glory Shone Around: A Christmas Collection and 1999's Bend.
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Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, featuring appearances by Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka Rice, came out four years later.
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Tony Trischka has written over fifteen instructional books and a series of DVDs.
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Tony Trischka is closely associated with "newgrass," which features several innovations to traditional bluegrass, including jazzy arrangements, non-traditional chordal structures, and frequent covers of non-bluegrass songs.
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Tony Trischka is one of the major innovators of the "chromatic" banjo style, which features sinewy, snaky melodic runs not strictly played out of chord positions.
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Tony Trischka produced Steve Martin's Grammy-nominated Rare Bird Alert, which features performances by Paul McCartney, the Dixie Chicks and the Steep Canyon Rangers.
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In December 2012, Tony Trischka was awarded the United States Artists Friends Fellow in recognition of the excellence of his work.