Roger Landes & Chipper Thompson
Founder of ZoukFest, Roger Landes, a Blue Springs, MO, native, should be very familiar to Kansas City Irish and folk music fans, having performed many years in Scartaglen and also as half of the duo with Connie Dover.
Recently no less than The Irish Times named Roger’s fiddle and bouzouki duo CD with Randal Bays House to House as one of the Top 5 Trad Albums of 2005:
At a sufficient remove from the origins of the music they evidently love, Bays and Landes inhabited the tunes with a refreshing vigour, and their insistence on retaining the personality of the live recording, replete with foot taps and squeaky chairs, only added to the technicolour of the collection
Chipper Thompson is a descendant of Irish immigrants, who was born and raised in Athens, Alabama. Chipper’s appreciation of folk and world music has him playing what he calls folk-n-roll, which meant he was right at home when he played with traditional bands in the pubs in West of Ireland. Check out his excellent blog called Banjosnake
See: The Janissary Stomp by Roger Landes & Chipper Thompson
Interview: Pitch, Jan 13, 2000 - Roger Landes & Gerald Trimble
Website: www.rogerlandes.com