Bob Shank
Nov 11, 2022 | 11am to 8pm
Nov 12, 2022 | 11am to 8pm
Nov 13, 2022 | 11am to 4pm
Elizabeth Moore Hall
For more than four decades Bob Shank has been a benchmark for American acoustic musicians.
Not bluegrass or old-time, or classical or ragtime, but all that and more.
A sixth-generation West Virginian, Shank began his musical journey at age five
with drums and piano and by age 13 he was firmly hooked on banjo and guitar. While
still in high school he fell in love with the hammered dulcimer after hearing Russell
Fluharty, West Virginia's "dulcimer man."
Shank performed on NPR’s internationally broadcast "Mountain Stage". He was an
invited guest at WVU's annual "World Music Concert" and has been a Master Artist
at the Augusta Heritage Center’s Spring Dulcimer Week, the Upper Potomac Dulcimer
Festival and West Virginia’s traditional music camp, Allegheny Echoes. Shank won
first place old-time banjo at West Virginia’s celebration of traditional arts,
the Vandalia Gathering.