Old Man Luedecke
www.oldmanluedecke.ca

A banjo songster like Old Man Luedecke is a rare type  of musician. A songwriting one of such hopeful goodness, rarer still. In the  tradition of solo banjo men and women of days gone by like Dock Boggs, Bascom  Lunsford and Roscoe Holcomb, Old Man Luedecke sings his songs accompanied only by his loving five string, foot stomps and the occasional yodel. His songs are  melodic gems blending old time sensibilities with an unusual vision and poetic  sense. His music belies someone more than slightly ill at ease with modern life.  This is a bizarre type of music Dock Boggs might have made if he'd studied poetry.

Old Man Luedecke left the big old city of Toronto, met a girl in the Yukon,  fell in love, bought a banjo and fell in love again. After a couple of years  of love and banjo and the makings of a brilliant performing career in sunny Halifax, he returned to the Yukon with his sweethearts. There he woodshedded.  He wrote a tone of songs over the next year and a half. He held regular gigs playing banjo in a gambling hall with can-can girls and in a honky tonk called the Snakepit accompanying piano barnacle Bob. Even made an appearance at the Dawson City Music Festival. After a time, he left again for Halifax to renew musical acquaintances and record his debut CD Mole in the Ground. That CD has  become a smash on college radio, was featured on CBC's Atlantic Airwaves and  is a hot item in stores and at shows. He continues to live in Halifax and perform  there and around the country to ever-wider acclaims. His stage show blends hokum  and inspiration into powerful and fun entertainment that will delight young  and old. He's still sweet on the girl he met up there in Yukon, and the banjo.