My guests this week is Olli Chanoff, Director of Programming at the FreshGrass Foundation.

So much music I love has its roots in FreshGrass Commissions, from albums like Becky Buller's Jubilee, Sarah Jarosz's Blue Heron Suite and Aoife O'Donovan's All My Friends, to instrumental works by Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas and Jacob Jolliff. So I was delighted to get the opportunity to chat to Olli about how FreshGrass goes about commissioning these works, why they support the FreshGrass Foundation's mission and what the process is like. 

We also talk about FreshGrass's fantastic work to support and promote roots music and artists, including their festivals, FreshScores film commissions and their involvement in the Steve Martin Banjo prize.

I really enjoyed this conversation - I hope you do too!

Find out more about FreshGrass's mission and what's coming next at https://freshgrassfoundation.org

Happy picking,
Matt

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