Steve Gadd, Guitar, Banjo Vocals
Full time musician and music teacher, Steve is a collector, transcriber, teacher and advocate of local traditional music.
Author and Publisher of The Tasmanian Heritage Apple Shed Dance Tunes, over 270 tunes. He is also a Contributor to Veranda Music, a seminal book on traditional Australian musicians.
Steve has also written, ‘Beneath These Mountains’, a play based on a series of sketches about the lives of traditional rural musicians in Tasmania.
Both a composer and performer Steve plays in the following bands and ensembles; Buttongrass Serenade ,formerly known as Slap Dash (traditional Tasmanian folk), Shake Sugaree, (Blues and Bluegrass), Saltarello, (Medieval and Early Music ensemble), Czardas, (Gypsy and gypsy-influenced music) and The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble. He has toured Australia with Shake Sugaree and has performed at Festivals in Tasmania, NSW, the ACT, Vic, and SA.
Steve has served as either a program director or Festival director for a range of events including The Franklin Apple Harvest Festival, The Cygnet Folk Festival and The Taste of The Huon Festival.
