Steve Smith – Mandolin

Steve Smith is not only known as one of this country’s top mandolin players and multi-instrumentalist but also as an outstanding educator. Along with his work with the Roots/Bluegrass group The Hard Road Trio, the duo Tim May and Steve Smith and the Alan Munde Gazette, Steve has been on faculty at the California Coast Music Camp, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Music Camp, Colorado Roots Music Camp, Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp, Zoukfest and Camp Bluegrass (for twenty years running).  Smith has appeared at festivals and venues including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, High Mountain Hay Fever, Rocky Grass, Swallow Hill, Freight and Salvage, Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival, the Big Horn Mountain Festival, and the Minnesota Old-time and Bluegrass Festival and the Bluegrass Meltdown to name a few.   With the Las Cruces Symphony, he has performed works of William Grant Still, Gershwin and George Crumb and the musical Chicago.  Along with forty plus years of coast to coast touring, Smith has performed in Ireland, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Cuba and the US Virgin Islands. He has also performed in musical theater in Cotton Patch Gospel (multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and actor) and the Robber Bride Groom; he composed and performed the score for a production of the Sam Sheppard play Curse of the Starving Class. Steve has appeared on over 40 albums as performer and producer including guitar legends Jim Hurst, Mitch Perry, and Tim May, banjoist Bill Evans, Alan Munde and Tim O’Brien.  His music has been heard on countless radio stations across the US and on the Discovery Channel, The History Channel and even the Weather Channel.