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Old Time Music Headline Concert

David Scrivner and Dave Cavins with Amber Gaddy, Saturday, March 2

1:00pm: Old Time Headline Concert

David Scrivner began playing Ozarks music when he was just six years old. A native of Mansfield, Missouri, David’s family ties in the Ozarks go back generations with roots in southern Missouri. David has been playing traditional Ozarks fiddle music for 25 years, including several years as a student and apprentice of renown Ozarks fiddler Bob Holt. Focused on preserving Ozarks dance and music traditions, David plays for square dances in the Ozarks and mentors less experienced musicians in the area. David also won the 2019 Arkansas State Old-Time Fiddling Grand Championship and represented old-time Ozarks fiddling at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., in 2022 and 2023 and the National Folk Festival in Richmond, VA in 2023.

David Cavins has had the privilege to play guitar for and learn from Missouri's best traditional fiddlers for 25 years. Fiddlers Dwight Lamb, Bob Holt, and John White and guitarists Elvin Campbell and Alvie Dooms are David's main influences. Providing a strong beat to a roomful of dancers is his favorite kind of guitar work.

Amber (AJ) Gaddy is a dance musician from Columbia, MO, who plays banjo, accordion and fiddle. She grew up in the Missouri Ozarks listening to her grandfathers play fiddle tunes on their harmonicas, and later learned from great Missouri fiddlers like Bob Holt, John White, Dwight Lamb, and Vesta Johnson. AJ has played in the Library of Congress, but is equally honored to play for dancers in the barn lofts, living rooms and church basements of Missouri.

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