Walker Family Band
The Walker Family Band plays music that comes from their common and uncommon experiences. When the band is at full force, they have three “boomer generation” guys with serious time logged in Irish, old time and jazz, complemented by a “now generation” fiddle gal extraordinaire, who has her own unique style. They can also break it down and play as a duo, a trio, and for a bit more fun, add more of their talented family members into the mix.
For over ten years The Walker Family Band has delighted audiences throughout the Southeast with a distinctive take on traditional styles. They perform Irish dance music and songs and American old time music with a forward reaching attitude. They especially enjoy sharing original tunes, which grow naturally from these basic roots and from their thorough training and experience in classical music and jazz. On stage The Walker Family Band creates a confluence of sound with an end game plan; a fresh connection with each audience. Based in Piedmont North Carolina, the band plays festivals, weddings, private parties and other events. True to Irish and American tradition, the band shares their experience and knowledge by conducting multi- instrumental workshops and hosting an annual summer camp that is attended by youngsters and families from coast to coast.
The Walker Family Band includes:
Scott Walker – fiddle/guitar/cello/singer – is a well known performer in the Greensboro area, and has taught for decades in the Piedmont and as a clinician across the nation. The leader of the band, Scott brings the continuity, clarity, and vision that feeds the family on and off the stage.
Scott’s daughter, Jennie Brunner, is a dynamic fiddler and composer of lively dance tunes and haunting, deeply touching melodies. She plays with a fine balance of energy and grace that is a real joy to experience. She will capture your heart with her depth of tone, then cut loose with a tune your feet can’t resist!
Scott’s brother Landon Walker – bass/accordion/flute – whose 35 year musical career in Jacksonville Florida included performing on bass in the highest echelons of jazz and other styles ranging from symphonic to the avant-garde. His unexpected and intricate bass lines bring an unconventional approach to traditional fiddle tune formulas.
Scott Manring, a seasoned pro, who tours all over the East Coast, playing many styles of music, including Jazz, New Orleans Swing, Old Time, and more. Well-known in the Greensboro area for many years, he adds his highly personal style on guitar, banjo, dobro, and mandocello, giving The Walker Family Band serious versatility.
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December 7th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Looks and sounds great!!
great work all –
Jim
December 8th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Website looks fabulous!!! Can’t wait to see what you all are doing next.
December 14th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Scott,
We so much enjoyed the music at Statesville. You are so a talent.
Best wishes from old friends.
Kay and Kelly
December 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hello! It is so good to hear from you! The site looks great, I love the tree…. We can’t wait to see you this summer for fiddle camp. Take care and Merry Christmas – Happy Holidays to ALL!!!!!
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Walker Family! I so enjoyed your performance this afternoon at The Wesley Long Community Hospital! Our son Michael, is coming through Greensboro tonight and I will print your bio for him and give him your card. He and his wife Amy would love to hear your music and the Irish club in Raleigh would do well to have you come play with them. It is called Tir Na’ Nog (sp?) and they probably have a website also you might like to visit. Thank you for the pleasure of your music – wonderful! Susan Boyd
March 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
[...] Landon Walker (stand up bass), Scott’s daughter Jennie Walker Brunner on violin (all of the Walker Family Band), Renee Mendoza (lead singer of Filthybird, our April headliner) on vocals and David “Driveway” [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
We sure missed you guys at the reunion.Hope everyone is in good health.
David and Karla Burnet
July 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Hey Scott:
Great seeing you yesterday. Thanks for the info on the website. Looks great. Hope to see you soon.
Chip
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm
TELL NATHEN I SAID HI!!
December 11th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hi Jensen!
I hope you are doing great and looking forward to the holidays! I am babysitting for Nathan tonight and I will give hi a big hug from Jensen!
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
A message for Landon…
Hi old WJCT friend. Glad to see you’re in God’s country and still making great music. Saw Carlton a couple of years back. (Man, you guys got old! hee hee)
Best of luck,
Michael Mauldin
April 13th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Hi ! Trying to purchase the music book of tunes you played in Ireland while touring there. It also includes some American fiddle tunes as well. I don’t see it under the music books drop-down menu. Please inform. I need about 10 of them. Thanks !
JJ
April 13th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Hey John,
We’re delighted that you want to purchase the books! It’s a terrific tune list! We hope to offer those books very soon. We’re waiting on some final correspondance in regard to copyrighted material. Please be sure to add your name to our mailing list. We will send a notice when the details are finalized and the books are added to the shopping page!
August 10th, 2010 at 9:22 am
Hi,
I am trying to locate recordings of Landon Walker’s NPR radio show ” Radishes” which aired late on week-end nights in the 1990’s on the Jacksonville station. Even a list of the songs he played would be great.
Thanks. Martin
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
Martin,
Thanks for your e-mail, and for remembering that show. As you know, it ran for some years, and covered a wide range of music, recordings from all over the world and diverse idioms. I did not keep a record of what was played, so to re-create a song-list now is quite impossible. And there is no audio archive of the program – I do have a box of dusty cassettes of random shows, but they aren’t available for distribution, practically or legally.
I have happy memories of those days and the programs I produced and the people who enjoyed them, but I’m afraid that’s all there is now, the recollection of a time when radio was allowed to be creative and exciting.
Thanks again for writing.
Landon Walker
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
Landon,
At the time, I was living on a small sailboat in Fernandina Beach
marina and working as sous chef at the Beech Street Grill. I would be
home in time for Radishes and would sit in my tiny cabin, drinking a
bottle of good pinot noir my boss gave me every night, with a little
oil lamp burning, listening to the likes of Thomas Matfumo, the Lion
of Zimbabwe, and, then, ” Juggler’s Etude”.
Radishes inspired me to collect little musical instruments, a coconut
ukelele from Tonga, a flagolette, a harmonica, a rhythmn egg, a little
Cuban conga drum, and my friends who visited the boat would jam. To
this day I play a baritone ukelele.
To me, your show was to radio what Charles Kurault’s CBS Sunday
Morning was to television, enlightening.
Thank you so much for the joy you brought to my life and the memories
I carry with me.
All the best to you , sir,
Martin