Orrin Star is an award-winning guitarist and mandolin player
who combines hot picking, cool singing and good humor.
Once described as 'Arlo Guthrie-meets-Doc Watson', he was
the 1976 National Flatpicking Champion, has appeared on
A Prairie Home Companion, and boasts a repertoir ranging
from bluegrass standards to little-known folk gems, Celtic
fiddle tunes to fingerstyle blues.

He is also known for his skill as a music teacher, with two
instructional DVDs, a book, and a column in Flatpicking
Guitar magazine to his credit. He has led guitar & mandolin
workshops throughout the United States and in Europe.

Orrin performs solo, duo, and with his groups Orrin Star & the
Sultans of String and The Love Mongrels (both with whom he
also plays banjo).

“You will be successful in any gathering.”
--------------------------------------Fortune Cookie

Next Workshops:
GUITAR:
League City TX 2/18, Lubbock TX 2/26, Frostburg MD 3/3

MANDOLIN:

Hot off the hard drive: a proper Irish duo recording of my new jig
(with Keith Carr joining me on cittern).

I performed this my annual Thanksgiving weekend show with Jimmy Gaudreau
(with me on mandola and Jimmy on octave mandolin) and it felt good.

As usual the show with Jimmy in Herndon was memorable, and we called up our
buddy Leon Morris from the audience to join us on a couple numbers.

Also memorable was my solo October show in Cabin John and teaching at the Puget
Sound Guitar Workshop and Fiddle Week at the Swannanoa Gathering (where I was
the mandolin instructor) and the two North Carolina house concerts that preceded
and followed the week.

2012 will mark my 35th Anniversary Year as a full-time performer.
Looking forward to what lies ahead.