Alex Hargreaves and Michael Daves at Rockwood last night
Alex's fiddle was hot, hot, hot! Monster flatpicker and other-worldly vocalist Michael Daves has been a Rockwood (NYC) regular for about 16 years. He used to play weekly, on Tuesday. He'd always open with "I've Endured." The absence of that song was the ONLY thing missing from last night's spectacular (and PACKED) show.
The show also featured Jake Jolliff on mandolin, another monster player who I've followed for well over a decade, and an excellent bassist, Erik Alvar, who I haven't heard play before. Long as I'm talking about these great musicians, here's a video of Alex and Jake that I never get tired of watching from the International Mandolin Festival in Lunel, France in 2013. The guitarist is Julien Bataille.