Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum
Special Guest 2010

Laurie, a stylish vocalist and a fine instrumentalist on fiddle, guitar, upright bass, and old-time banjo, grew up musically in several groups of the San Francisco Bay Area in the '70s, starting her own band (Grant Street) in 1986 with her partner Tom Rozum. The eclectic musical tastes of Laurie and even the moreso of Tom (a New England native who worked his way to Berkeley playing everything - swing, jazz, country, Bluegrass, even Norteno music - on mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, and tenor banjo) have given Grant Street an imprint that quickly steered away from traditional styles and became more and more "Laurie Lewis music".

The power of Laurie's music has got wide recognition through the years in several ways: she got the IBMA "Song of the year" Award in 1995, with the song "Who will watch the home place?", and was voted Female Vocalist Of The Year a couple times (besides being nominated for Grammy Awards several times along the way). In 1995 Laurie and Tom released "The oak and the laurel", the first in a series of masterpieces as "Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum", and the release of Tom's solo CD ("Jubilee") has given us an insight on the wide scope of his music, pairing Bill Monroe with Irvin Berline or Merle Haggard. The duo returned to hard-core Bluegrass in 1999, with a CD entitled "Laurie Lewis and her Bluegrass Pals", backed by a stellar band of musicians and centered on their unique vocal blend.

www.laurielewis.net

www.tomrozum.com