"Brooklyn Bluegrass Maestro" Orrin Star is a nationally recognized folk & bluegrass performer and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. Winner of the 1976 National Flatpicking Championship (the largest bluegrass guitar contest in the country), he plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, sings, and performs solo, duo and with his band Orrin Star & the Sultans of String.

His repertoire spans old-time, western swing, celtic and original songwriting in addition to more mainstream bluegrass and folk material. An accomplished storyteller and entertainer (he worked as a stand-up comic for five years in the Boston area) he has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and has three recordings on Flying Fish Records.

"Orrin Star is one of the finest flatpicking guitarists in captivity. He's kept growing since he won the National Championship...and his wry humor has been honed to razor-sharp."
Jeff McGlaughlin

"Some of the sweetest rural southern music being made in America today is coming from the fretboards of urban northern musicians. The sound that David Bromberg and Orrin Star created last night at Nightstage may be a thousand miles and a couple of generations removed from the original articles but that hardly makes their music less authenic, or less rambunctious fun. Both Bromberg and Star are consummate showmen."
-Daniel Gewertz

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Fortune Cookie

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