Dom Flemons
Born
and raised in Arizona, Dom has thoroughly immersed himself in
the sounds of yesterday, with a prodigious record collection and
an immense knowledge of the different playing styles of the blues,
country, and stringband traditions. As part of the Chocolate Drops,
Dom uses harmonica, guitar, bones, and jug to add an infectious
rhythm. |
Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens was born in the Carolina piedmont and grew
up with the sounds of bluegrass from one side of her family and
classic blues and jazz on the other side. After graduating the
Oberlin Conservatory of music, she fell into contra dancing and
became insipired by the old-time bands she heard at the dances.
She worked extra hard to buy her first banjo and fiddle and hasn't
looked back since. She plays with Joe Thompson every chance
she gets. She also calls contra and social dances. |
Justin Robinson
Justin Robinson is the fiddler for the Chocolate Drops. He
grew up in North Carolina in a house full of musicians, his mother
was an opera singer and cellist, sister a classical pianist and his
grandfather a harmonica player. He played classical violin at the
age of 9 and is under the tutelage of Joe Thompson. He met Joe,
as well as the other members of the Chocolate Drops, at a Black
Banjo Gathering in Boone, North Carolina. |
Sule Greg Wilson
Sule Greg Wilson brings over thirty years
of folk and world music experience to the Carolina Chocolate Drops. From his school days
as a dancer and drummer in his native Washington, DC, to artist's residencies in Hermosillo,
Mexico and Antrim, Northern Ireland, Sule Wilson brings "spirit, expertise, commitment, and,
above all, his feisty intelligence" to all he does. |
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