Stevens Mill is a collaborative Americana New Grass performance and recording project led by Singer Songwriter Robert Webster.
Instrumentation includes Webster on Acoustic guitar and vocals">
Stevens Mill
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Stevens Mill is a collaborative Americana New Grass performance and recording project led by Singer Songwriter Robert Webster.
Instrumentation includes Webster on Acoustic guitar and vocals, Tom "Mocks" McCrory on upright and electric bass, guitar and vocals, Billy "Fingers" Loelius on percussion
and Glen Alexander on Fiddle and Mandolin.
Tom "Mocks" McCrory is a versatile musician whose bass playing adds a unique rhythmic and melodic foundation to The Stevens Mill Project. Mocks also plays guitar and keyboard, sings backup vocals, and contributes to the band's arrangements and original compositions. He has performed in jazz, classic and progressive rock, and electric blues bands, and continues to play bass and sing backup vocals as part of Webster and Mocks duo with Charlotte singer-songwriter Robert Webster. Bill, "Fingers" Loelius is an accomplished percussionist with over 30-years experience. His early musical roots were in marching percussion, including many years playing snare and multi-toms at the highest level of the marching music activity in Drum Corps International. Fingers has been the percussionist for Morningstar Praise Ensemble since the early 1990s, where his styles range from light rock on an acoustic trap set to classical selections on orchestral percussion instruments, including tympani. He has also accompanied the Charlotte Brass and other similar ensembles from time to time.
Fingers is the percussionist for The Stevens Mill Band, where his specialty is the Peruvian Cajon and Roland’s “HandSonic” hand percussion instrument. Using this unique electronic drum kit, “Fingers” is known for playing jazz, rock and country rhythms with an almost unlimited variety of percussion sounds to suit the band’s eclectic style.The band is additionally joined by Master Fiddler and two time Galax Fiddling Champion Glen Alexander playing Violin and Mandolin. Alexander's mastery of both instruments is readily apparent as he adds considerably to the original music of Webster. The band's focus continues to be on the performance of original music with a salting of unique takes on a few of their favorite cover tunes. For bookings contact Fingers at (704) 517-8345
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