JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 49 by the late famed fiddler Kenny Baker. McCaw does “Washington and Lee Swing,” a jazz version early on per- formed by Louis Armstrong. “We love to revel in the history and connection to the past, but we’re also very much about entertainment and humor,” explained Lewis, whose group has appeared in and out of the U.S. “It’s funny how we’ll find a song that’s been played by some kind of hillbilly string band in the ’20s and ’30s, and it turns out that it was written by professional composers on Tin Pan Alley years earlier.” Lewis, 40, who also teaches instrumental music to private students, was a violin perfor- mance major at Interlochen before being introduced to folk styles and country performers by a friend met through a Habonim Dror program in Israel. After working with dif- ferent bands and getting to know different musicians, Lewis asked Belcher and McGaw to form Corn Potato. He had met Belcher through connections made during the program in Israel, and he got to know McGaw through participation at an Appalachian String Band Festival in West Virginia. “We’re kind of like a niche of a niche,” Lewis said. “We most closely fit in with what people call old-time coun- try. We don’t sound quite the same as anyone else. Although we do think of it as country music, it’s bolder country music. It spans the time period from before recorded technology was available. “We’re not trying to play what people have heard 1,000 times. It’s a little bit of edu- cation. We’re trying to share things that they may not have heard before and tell the background.” During the pandemic, Lewis start- ed work on a recording, “Ragtime Banjo Revival,” inde- pendent of his Corn Potato partners. It will have 27 pieces arranged for banjo and other instruments and feature 10 different ensembles across the selec- tions. The numbers reach from “Maple Leaf Rag” popular- ized by Scott Joplin to “Pearl of the Harem” by Harry Guy, a Detroit composer going back 100 years and into rag- time. While planning for the upcoming tour, Corn Potato members will include some visuals designed and crafted by McCaw. Moved as a scroll mounted on a couple of rods to make up what is known as a crankie show, the images — abstract and representational — will roll through to accen- tuate the music. Two songs accompanied by images are “You and a Canoe” by Emile Grimshaw and “Freckles” by Joe Morley, which is on Lewis’ latest recording, Mozart of the Banjo: The Joe Morley Project. The audience joins in by imagining for themselves how the images relate. Details The Corn Potato String Band will appear at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, at The Ark, 316 S. Main Street, in Ann Arbor. $20. (734) 761-1800. theark.org. For more information on the group and tour updates, go to cornpotato.com. PHOTO CREDIT: JAMIE BUSH + CO. 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