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Larry Hanks is a guitarist, Jew's harper,
and singer of a wide variety of traditional American folksong styles
-- old-time country and cowboy songs, ballads and blues, and fiddle
tunes played on the Jew's harp -- as well as children's songs, and topical
and contemporary songs from such writers as Malvina Reynolds, Utah Phillips,
Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Larry Penn, Peggy Seeger, and Mark Graham,
as well as the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams.
Since 1962 he has been performing up and down the
West Coast and nationally, at folk clubs, coffeehouses, concerts and
festivals, including Vancouver (BC), Mariposa (Toronto), Smithsonian
Festival of American Folklife, Fox Hollow (Petersburg,NY), San Diego,
Wesleyan University Festival of Traditional Song, Adams Avenue Roots
Festival (San Diego), and the 1st Annual California Folk Festival (Folsom,
'02). He toured the folk clubs in England, Scotland and Wales with Faith
Petric and Laura Smith in 1980, and Finland in '02.
He has been an instructor at the Puget Sound Guitar
Workshop and the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes (Port Townsend, WA).
He was the guest Jew's harper with the Fresno (CA) Philharmonic, playing
Charles Ives' "Washington's Birthday", and has attended International
Jew's harp (trump) Congresses at Iowa City ('84), Yakutsk, Siberia ('91),
Molln, Austria ('98), and Rauland, Norway in 2002.
His album "Tying A Knot in the Devil's Tail",
originally issued on Long Sleeve Records in 1984, has recently been
re-issued in CD format on the Dandelion label. He also appears with
his friend Mike Marker in the CD “The Truth for Certain,”
a collection of outstanding original songs and traditional favorites.
This is Larry’s second year as a staff member
with the California Autoharp Gathering. We are delighted and thrilled
to have his presence to light-up our venue!
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