Craig Edwards

Craig Edwards sings and plays fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and button accordion. He studied Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and worked as a staff musician at Mystic Seaport Museum for over 35 years. He has learned from master source musicians in numerous styles, including Appalachian fiddle tunes, banjo songs, and ballads, Blues, Cajun, Cape Breton, Irish, African American maritime work songs, and Zydeco, and explores the deep historical and cultural relationships among these styles. His performances often feature rare musical gems and little-known connections. Craig has performed maritime music across North America and Europe, and works as a consultant creating musical components for museum exhibits and documentaries including the Ellis Island Museum, Mystic Seaport Museum, the Nantucket Whaling Museum, and Connecticut Public Television’s “Connecticut and the Civil War.” He also plays at farmer’s markets, dances, taverns, weddings, barbecues, barn raisings, festivals, music camps, and corn shuckings.