Ethan Robbins is a musician whose compositions connect the roots of bluegrass with the backbeat of contemporary funk. Ethan began playing bluegrass at Oberlin College where he met Cold Chocolate upright bassist Kirsten Lamb. The two began evolving a style of music never quite nailed down by a single genre. The songs indicated that Straight-Driving-Bluegrass and All-Out-Funk were to be genres fused from the get go. Simply put, Bluegrass Funk.
Then, after moving to Boston, Ethan and Kirsten met banjo virtuoso and MIT physicist James W. McIver....
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