"When I hear music...I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." — Thoreau

THE ROMANTIC FIDDLER

Raised in the Central Appalachian Mountains, Shawn Craver makes elemental, pre-industrial music shaped by Old-World and American folk traditions, while also writing original songs that resist inheritance, genre, and expectation. Descended from generations of family musicians and storytellers, he has appeared at universities, festivals, and concert series, including as a panelist with New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley.