Description

Zoe & Cloyd‘s innovative “klezgrass” music springs from the rich traditions and complementary styles of fiddler/vocalist Natalya Zoe Weinstein and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist John Cloyd Miller. Descending from a lineage of klezmer and jazz musicians, Natalya trained classically in her home state of Massachusetts before moving south in 2004. John, a twelfth generation North Carolinian and grandson of pioneering bluegrass fiddler, Jim Shumate, is a 1st place winner of the prestigious Chris Austin Songwriting Contest and the Hazel Dickens Songwriting Contest. Based in Asheville, NC, Natalya and John are also experienced educators and are both instructors in the traditional music program at Warren Wilson College.

In 2024, Zoe & Cloyd performed at numerous events including the Westport Folk & Bluegrass Festival in Ireland, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in upstate NY, and will be returning as hosts of A Swannanoa Solstice at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in Asheville. In 2023, Zoe & Cloyd released their fifth studio album on Organic Records, entitled Songs of Our Grandfathers. The project is an homage to their respective bluegrass and klezmer roots and has been enthusiastically received with feature articles in Bluegrass Unlimited, No Depression and the Bluegrass Situation. Zoe & Cloyd delight audiences with soaring harmonies and heartfelt songwriting, seamlessly combining original bluegrass, klezmer, old-time and folk with sincerity and zeal.

Zoey & Cloyd will be joined by long-time collaborators Kevin Kehrberg on bass and Ben Krakauer on banjo. Special guest, Will Straughan will open the show.

“A musical collaboration that demands to be heard.” – Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine

“Songs of Our Grandfathers is about tapping into tradition, but also carrying it forward, an exercise in finding new room for creativity while honoring the past.”– No Depression

“Songs of Our Grandfathers is a timely, historically meaningful and masterfully executed project.”– Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine