David Bragger & Universes in THE MATRIX

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Who & Where

Name: David Bragger
City/Place: Los Angeles, California
Country: United States

Life & Work

Bio: In only the last few years, traditional fiddler and banjoist David Bragger has become an ubiquitous figure in traditional American folk music.

He is a musician, documentarian, UCLA ensemble director, 78rpm record collector, musical festival director and folk label founder. He has also nearly finished recording and filming musicians for the largest scale American Folk music project ever to be made. It has been dubbed the “secret project,” as only those who recorded for it know anything about it.

Having learned the “old-time” art of fiddling from traditional masters Tom Sauber and Mel Durham, Bragger has been passing down these archaic musical secrets and sounds to students and fans worldwide. His 2016 debut CD Big Fancy put him on the traditional music map overnight and he was immediately recruited to perform fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar on the 70’s Laurel Canyon-esque solo album “Millport” from Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin. He was also tapped to play fiddle with Social Distortion. In 2018, Bragger and fiddler Susan Platz released the very first American old-time fiddle duet CD King’s Lament–Old-time Fiddle Duets which is currently going into its second printing. Bragger was also the featured soloist on fiddle and banjo for last year’s Lion’s Gate western film Gone are the Days. Bragger has also been tapped to curate and write liner notes for 78rpm record compilations put out by the mega-UK label JSP. He just completed the Texas Hillbillies 4-CD set and is currently working on the Mississippi String Band compilation set. Most recently Bragger has been seen fiddling with Grammy-winner Dom Flemons.

These “appearances” and “cameos” are squeezed into Bragger’s free time when he’s not performing, teaching old-time music at UCLA and running his label “Tiki Parlour Recordings.”

Five years ago, Bragger spearheaded the idea to bring the greatest living traditional masters to Los Angeles for concerts, workshops and recording. He founded the space known as The Old-Time Tiki Parlour and flew out the great, eccentric traditional musician Dan Gellert. When Ry Cooder caught wind of this, he showed up to the Parlour as Gellert’s transportation! Bragger and his partner Rick Hocutt recorded and filmed Gellert for a week. The result was the Dan Gellert CD & DVD release, which is now a modern classic of the old-time music genre. In the last few years, Bragger’s vision has come true. He created an independent label devoted solely to hardcore traditional music where every release is 100% produced by traditional musicians (recording, mastering, filming, editing, artwork, design, etc.) All releases showcase raw traditional American music by today’s masters, folk art by traditional musicians and extensive liner notes.

Currently the Tiki Parlour has sixteen releases, with more more scheduled. Among the latest are Holy Smoke! and The Old Texas Fiddle Vol. 3. Holy Smoke! features Bragger with one of his mentors, the great Italian old-time fiddler Rafe Stefanini. Novelist and American music writer Tom Piazza calls it “one of the best banjo-fiddle duet records I’ve heard.” The oldest banjo publication in existence, The Banjo Newsletter, considers it “one of the most important recordings of 2019, or any other year for that matter.”

Tiki Parlour is releasing CD & DVD Sets featuring Bluegrass banjo master Bill Evans, reclusive old-time fiddler Scott Prouty, North Carolina master Kirk Sutphin and old-time fiddle legend Brad Leftwich. Tiki Parlour is also releasing a book of fiddle duet transcriptions that correspond to double fiddle release by David Bragger and Susan Platz.

This is all just the beginning.

Contact Information

Email: davidbragger@gmail.com

Media & Markets

▶ Twitter: TikiParlour
▶ Instagram: davidbragger
▶ Website: http://oldtimetikiparlour.com
▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/davidbragger
▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCLmdqVzbo7adCNiD0QCFVrQ
▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5TBDE9aA8pX2aI6KyimGGA
▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/2Cnebc4WUDf5xENKAOSbmR
▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/7fUY6Q2Iha6j7GhL0q2keO

My Instruction

Lessons/Workshops: David Bragger is a full-time instructor of old-time music on fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar. He teaches private lessons in-person and online, as well as workshops at music festivals and camps, including the Los Angeles Old-Time Social, the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, the Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival, the Portland Old-Time Music Gathering, the Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention, the Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention and the Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest.
Instruction: http://oldtimetikiparlour.com/category/lessons-workshops/

Clips (more may be added)

0:06:49
ENGLE: Portrait of Asheville Old-Time Fiddler John Engle
By David Bragger

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2:20
Maya & Leela--Coming Through the Canebrake (Father's Day Video)
By David Bragger

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1:43
Crooked Waltz for Dwight Lamb's Birthday--David Bragger & Susan Platz
By David Bragger

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1:22
Yell in the Shoats--David Bragger
By David Bragger

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2:57
David Bragger & Rafe Stefanini--Will Adams' Tune
By David Bragger

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3:05
Christopher Berry--Snowdrop
By David Bragger

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3:08
Gangspil - Bornholmervals
By David Bragger

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1:14
Mississippi Hillbillies TRAILER
By David Bragger

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2:08
David Bragger & Susan Platz - Empty Canoe - On The Farm Sessions @Pickathon 2019 S07E03
By David Bragger

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0:27:36
Cripple Creek- Old-Time Fiddle Lesson
By David Bragger

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0:07:27
Chinquapin Pie-Clawhammer Banjo Lesson
By David Bragger

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David Bragger

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