The members of the Crooked Holler String Band have been playing in various bands in the Bay Area for many years. They have honed their craft to bring you their style of old-time music. CHSB has a unique approach to the music they play. Although characteristically old-time, if a song seems like it would fit with their sound, whether by Bruce Springsteen or Maybelle Carter, they try it out, and if they like it, it goes into the repertoire along with their original tunes.
Members:
Mike Southworth has a lifelong love of music, enhanced by decades of playing folk, bluegrass, Celtic, and old-time music on guitar and banjo. Connecting with this band has brought it all together, been a lot of fun, and given Mike a place to develop his own musical style.
Ernie Noyes is a long-time participant in the Sonoma County Old Time music scene. Hailing from the East (Philadelphia), he honed his musical skills and uncanny memory for songs during the folk and traditional music revival of the 1960s. We’re lucky to have such a fine musician in this band.
Evan Morgan has been playing guitar since he was a little kid, basing his acoustic guitar style on the likes of Clarence White, Doc Watson, and Norman Blake (among others). He became the guitar player for the seminal bluegrass band Lost Highway and then went on to become a master at electric guitar as well as a member of New Riders of the Purple Sage.
Chris Carney grew up playing music. He played trumpet and French horn (along with the guitar) in elementary school and high school. In college, he studied woodwinds and strings but finally came to his senses in the late 1970s and settled on the fiddle, banjo, and guitar. He has been playing old-time and Celtic music ever since.