Triple Chicken Foot brings the fiddle to the city
22.05.12
There's an unmistakable old-time twang in Triple Chicken Foot's rapid-fire fiddle and banjo-picking style, the sort of knee-slapping, square dance-friendly music that has drawn veteran mountain music fans to the annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival for more than 50 years.
Only this isn't Topanga. It's around the Lincoln Heights bend and down by the Los Angeles River. Nor will you find a single petticoat among the tattoo-covered crowd gathered on a recent Saturday night behind HM 157, a Victorian house turned alternative art and performance space.
It's a new time for old-time music in Los Angeles. And as old-time music fans might say, Triple Chicken Foot (Ben Guzmán, Mike Heinle and Kelly Marie Martin) is leading the promenade back home with its annual Los Angeles Old Time Social festival, bimonthly square dances and open jam sessions for a generation of musicians more familiar with electric guitars than six-string guitjos (banjos with guitar necks).
Source: Los Angeles Times