Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers + Mary Black November 9, 2009

Best known as an award-winning actor, comedian and film star, Steve Martin is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, heralded as a bluegrass player of note and one who has collaborated with heavyweights of the genre including Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill and John McEuen.

Appearing for the first time in the UK with his bluegrass band, he performs tracks from his acclaimed new album The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo. Support comes from Mary Black, a seminal figure in Irish music and acclaimed as one of the finest female vocalists in the world.

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