About Adam Hurt

Deemed a "banjo virtuoso" by the Washington Post, Adam Hurt has fused several traditional old-time idioms to create his own elegantly innovative clawhammer banjo style, having been introduced to the instrument at age eleven in his native Minnesota. A respected performer and teacher of traditional music, Adam has played at the Kennedy Center, conducted banjo and fiddle workshops at many venues around the country and abroad, and been featured on the cover of Banjo Newsletter. Since moving south in 2002, Adam has placed in or won most of the major old-time banjo competitions, including four first-place finishes at Clifftop, and he has claimed several state banjo and fiddle championships.

Selected Performance Appearances

Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Appalachian String Band Music Festival, Clifftop, West Virginia
The Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia
Brandywine Friends of Old-Time Music, Newark, Delaware
Charlotte Folk Society, Charlotte, North Carolina
Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, Durango, Colorado
Fiddle & Bow, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Fire in the Mountain, Aberystwyth, Wales
Florida State Fiddlers Convention, Live Oak, Florida
FOAOTMAD Festival, Gainsborough, England
Folk Music Society of New York, Brooklyn, New York 
Folklore Society of Greater Washington, Rockville, Maryland
The Front Porch, Charlottesville, Virginia
Harrietville National Bluegrass and Country Music Convention, Harrietville, Victoria
IBMA World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, North Carolina
Jalopy Theatre, Brooklyn, New York
The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
MBOTMA Winter Weekend, Plymouth, Minnesota
Rockbridge Mountain Music and Dance Festival, Buena Vista, Virginia
Somerset House, London, England
South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Strathmore Hall, Rockville, Maryland
Watermelon Park Fest, Berryville, Virginia
West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Promotional Images

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All photos by Martin Tucker.