Exactly What We Hope For
Your concert was a wonderful success for Calliope. When we set about crafting a unique and diverse series every season, evenings like that and performances like yours are exactly what we hope for.
From a diverse audience of over 500 in the hall that evening, I am still receiving congratulatory e-mails from enthusiastic board members and audience members alike.
Your storytelling and scholarly approach to the blues tradition, as well as your masterful and emotional performance, fit our series perfectly.
–Calliope Board Member
Scott Ainslie
Born in Rochester NY in 1952, Scott Ainslie has been playing music on something since he was three years old. A guitarist since 1967 with powerful appreciation for and apprenticeships with elder black and white musicians in different musical traditions, Ainslie carries a portion of them forward in his own traditional blues performances and songwriting.