Photo Credit: John Peets

DC-area singer/songwriter Rowan Corbett brings a mixture of modern and traditional sounds, instruments, and sensibilities with his eclectic playing. In addition to his own original music, you’ll find Irish, English and Scottish folk tunes, Early-American Ballads and acoustic renditions of modern Rock and Electronica.

As a guitarist, Irish bouzouki, plectrum and claw-hammer banjo player, Rowan brings a myriad of rhythmic and sonic palettes to bear. And on hand drums, bodhrán and the bones, he is a rare talent.

As well as being a long standing percussionist and song-writer with the Baltimore-based favorite, ilyAIMY, Rowan is member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. That band’s remaining founding member, Rhiannon Giddens’, has included him in various of her international tours and her second solo album, Freedom Highway. Rowan is also a co-founding member of the Irish/Old-Time band, Tinsmith, which has been breaking new ground in traditional music for over twenty years.