Blue Parrot Trio

"If you're a fan of foot percussion, fingerpicking, and Northumbrian pipe tunes, Blue Parrot makes these and other sounds...Celtic, French, and American music on banjo, flute, guitar, and mandolin."
- Boston Globe

Meet the Parrots

Banjo player Linda Abrams won first place in the old time banjo category at the 2005 Lowell Fiddle and Banjo contest. A well-known practitioner of the melodic clawhammer banjo style, she has published a number of her arrangements in banjo magazines and books, including Everything You Wanted to Know About Clawhammer Banjo by Ken Perlman and Bob Solosko's Eclectic Clawhammer. Linda was recently featured on the PBS series New Yankee Workshop, in the Boston Globe, and also owns a blue parrot!

Flute, whistle, and mandolin player Rob Huffman also has a solo career as a singer-songwriter; he released Tone without Tension, an album of original music in 2006. Shortly after the album came out, one of its tracks was featured on National Public Radio's "Car Talk" program.

Steve Levy completes the trio with his masterful playing on guitar, bouzouki, and other stringed instruments. Steve studied at the Berklee College of Music and has toured as a musician through the United States, Canada, and Europe. Like Rob, he spent several years studying with the late Tony Cuffe.

Whether performing an O'Carolan harp tune or a French bourree, Blue Parrot Trio captures the beauty and vitality of the music they love.

Blue Parrot Trio Live!

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Remembering Gene Ketelhohn
It is with great sadness that we mark the loss of our friend, mentor, and occasional bandmate Gene Ketelhohn. A fine picker and singer, Gene loved life and lived it well and fully. A man of peace and quiet wisdom, Gene had a remarkable range of interests and abilities. He had a deep knowlege of traditional blues, bluegrass, and old-time music; he taught Kung Fu; and he could cook, sew, and fix bicycles like nobody's business. Somehow he managed to hold down a full-time job at Harvard, too. And, of course, as Linda's devoted husband he was good-natured, supportive, and tolerant of the weekly Blue Parrot Trio rehearsals in his dining room.

We miss you Gene. Thank you for being here.

Tone without Tension -- Music by Rob Huffman