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Ryan Spearman

Ryan Spearman lives to share music. He’s a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, author, podcaster, and promoter. He’s also the co-founder of The Green Strum Project and the St. Louis Folk and Roots Festival.

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Here’s what St. Louis’ Premier music magazine, The River Front Times, has to say about Ryan:

“Consider Ryan Spearman the jujitsu master of folk music. Whether selling out listening rooms as a solo artist or performing around St. Louis with formal and informal blues and old-time groups, he uses his considerable knowledge of folk material and unassailable skill on guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica and fiddle to disarm any attempt to fix tradition in history books or on wax cylinders. Spearman’s 2010 album, Live at the Chapel is no less than a clinic on how to update tradition without losing what makes mastering the old language worthwhile. His music speaks to the old spirits and teaches them a thing or two about contemporary life and song as well.”

Spearman is an instructor at The Folk School of St. Louis where–for the last five years– he has taught classes covering several traditional musical subjects including, clawhammer banjo, old time & bluegrass fiddle, guitar, jug band, improvisation, music theory, & old time ensemble performance.

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Ryan has toured all over the United States and in France, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. He has performed on the main stage of The Telluride Bluegrass Festival (Telluride, CO), The Northwest String Summit (North Plains, OR), High Sierra Music Festival (Quincy, CA), Kinfolk Festival (Lyons, CO), and The Thomas Hollow Songwriters Gathering (Exeter, MO), The Fayetteville Roots Festival (Fayetteville, AR), The Boulder Theater (Boulder, CO) , The Aggie Theater (Fort Collins, CO), and The Fox Theater (Boulder, CO), & The Sheldon Concert Hall (St. Louis, MO) just to name a few.”

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Currently Spearman is performing solo, with the newly formed duo, The Aching Hearts, and with The Ryan Spearman Band.

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