Jason Dilg

Bio

Jason is a multi-instrumentalist singer, instructor, and respected interpreter of Appalachian dance tunes and ballads who loves sharing and teaching music with people of all ages. He's played banjo in the winning band in the renowned contest at the national Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifttop W.V.; he took first in banjo and third in fiddle the Fiddles and Folklife Festival at Warren Wilson College; and played guitar behind the Freighthoppers' fiddler David Bass in the first-place old time band at the Tazewell County Fiddlers Convention. He was a member of Colorado's favorite old-time band High on the Hog for four years, and served as an adjunct faculty banjo instructor for Naropa University. Since moving to Radford in 2017, he has won even more ribbons at the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention and many others along the Southeastern fiddler's convention circuit on banjo, mandolin, guitar, and singing as part of Trish Fore's Blue Ridge Wildcats and as a duo with his wife, Gina as the Lovely Mountaineers.