Mike Gangloff + Liam Grant

Mike Gangloff is a founder of long-running improv drone unit Pelt and of quarter-century-and-counting old-time stringband Black Twig Pickers. His fiddling in those bands and others, and in recent years' solo recordings and tours in the USA and overseas, blends improvisation, original melodic composition, and a deep grounding in traditional Appalachian fiddle music. His most recently released recordings are the solo "Evening Measures" album and the collaboration with Philadelphia-NYC guitar duo Elkhorn, "Shackamaxon Concert." A collaboration with UK guitarist C Joynes is to be released later this year, as is a new solo album, "April is Passing."

Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue, Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn…