The Soda Rock Ramblers The Soda Rock Ramblers are three friends and musicians united by their love of traditional music. Linda Askew, Larry Edelman, and Scott Mathis delight dancers and listeners alike with their unique blend of spirited music featuring old-time American fiddle tunes from the South and Midwest and the haunting melodies from the Southwest, including Mexican tunes, music of the Rio Grande (Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado), and the beautiful and rare Gu-achi tunes from Arizona. Rounding out their repertoire are ragtime pieces and music from other parts of the world. Among them they play fiddle, mandolin, guitar, mandola, octave mandolin, banjo-mandolin, and banjo-uke. Well known to dancers in Colorado’s Front Range the SRR have appeared at square and contra dances, community dances, Spanish Colonial Dances. Their concerts provide a wonderful opportunity to hear their lovely mandolin harmonies and learn more about the music of the Soda Rock Ramblers. Linda Askew grew up listening and dancing to the music of West Texas. She got her first guitar in high school. She really learned to play while hanging out in Alamosa, Colorado with some other musicians during the summer of 1989. She hasn't put it down since. She's become a master at playing rhythm guitar for Southern old time dance tunes, Cajun dance melodies, and the irregular rhythms of Gu-achi fiddle styles and Mexican music. She has performed with the Sandia Hots, the Soda Rock Ramblers, the Lost Woody Band, the Cicada’s, the Pasta Tones, and the Tune Junkies and has recorded and toured with Bayou Seco since 1989. Larry Edelman has been playing traditional music for 30 years and has traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe playing, teaching, and calling for traditional dancing. He currently plays fiddle, mandolin, and guitar with The Percolators as well as the Soda Rock Ramblers. Larry has taught at dozens of music and dance camps and festivals including the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Ashokan, Augusta, Pinewoods, Lady of the Lake, and many more. He appears on recordings on the Wildebeest, Kicking Mule, and Piggysnout labels. Larry is also a masterful dance caller, teacher, and dance researcher and has traveled throughout the United States and Europe, playing and calling, delighting dancers with his humor, enthusiasm, unique repertoire, skillful teaching, and knowledge of dance history. Scott Mathis, a veteran of 1960's rock and roll, has become a crusader for traditional music and dance. Playing the full range of the mandolin family of instruments and the guitarron, Scott’s focus has been on music from the great Southwestern USA, Mexico, France, and Italy. Scott is a member of such bands as Bayou Seco, Sandia Hots, Soda Rock Ramblers, Love Buzzards, Virginia Creepers and Lost Woody. For information: larryedelman@mac.com