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Scott Ainslie’s mother found him at the family piano picking out melodies from the records she listened to during the day when he was three years old. He’s been a musician all his life.
Ainslie came of age during the Civil Rights era and cultivated a powerful affinity for cross-cultural exchange. He has studied with elder musicians on both sides of the color line – in the Old-Time Southern Appalachian fiddle and banjo traditions, as well as Black Gospel and Blues. He plays this music with affection, authority, and power.
Armed with a variety of instruments – vintage guitars, a fretless gourd banjo, a one-string, homemade diddley bow (aka cigar box guitar) and carefully chosen historical personal anecdotes of his encounters with senior musicians across the South – Scott brings the history, roots music, and sounds of America alive.
He has six solo CDs to his credit and maintains an active recording, performing, and teaching schedule that carries him around the country, to Canada, and to Europe. His performances present a wonderful palette of sounds and stories that will delight the ear, awaken the mind, and satisfy the heart.
Scott has received numerous awards and grants for his work documenting and presenting traditional music. He has been a Public Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill, and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Folklife Section of the North Carolina Arts Council.
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