Evo Bluestein was raised in a folk music family and from an early age was exposed to many of America's great bearers of traditional culture. He is a well known teacher and performer, a clogger and a dance caller, an oldtime fiddler, plays mandolin and guitar, Cajun/zydeco fiddle and accordion. He's an avant garde banjo composer, autoharp Hall of Famer, and a broad source of American folk songs.