![]() ![]() Our house was always filled with music, mostly my dad playing and hamming it up with friends and neighbors stopping in, often unannounced, to play or listen, alongside all the weekly lessons and practicing. Then he started asking me to back him up on guitar while he played banjo. After we moved from Chicago to San Diego in 1970, he would drag us to Southern California bluegrass music festivals. ![]() My dad is mostly a piano player, but he also played the banjo and learned from a Pete Seeger book while he was on the Navy ship heading to Okinawa in the ’60s. ![]() How did you come into the roots music fold? Berman co-founded the Crooked Jades with Jeff Kazor and the renowned all-woman old-time string band Stairwell Sisters. She also performs on clawhammer banjo, dobro, guitar, harmonium, and baritone ukulele. Bay Area based Lisa Berman is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, known as a pioneer in bringing the Hawaiian slide guitar back to old-time music, and redefining its sound. ![]()
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