Rayna Gellert
{{short description|American singer-songwriter (born 1975)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{BLP sources|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Rayna Gellert
| background = solo_singer
| image = Gellert-fls.jpg
| caption = Gellert at MerleFest 2007
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| birth_name = Rayna Gellert
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|12|15}}
| origin = Indiana, U.S.
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| instrument = Violin, acoustic guitar, vocals
| genre = Folk, americana, bluegrass
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| website = [http://www.raynagellert.com/ Rayna Gellert's website]
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Rayna Gellert (born December 15, 1975) is an American fiddler, acoustic guitarist, singer, and songwriter specializing in old-time music.
Gellert is a former member of the Freight Hoppers. From 2003 to 2009 she performed and recorded with the all-female old-time band Uncle Earl. In 2003, she was a featured performer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She has also performed with the dance company Rhythm in Shoes, the West African-influenced band Toubab Krewe, Abigail Washburn, and Scott Miller. She has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and Chile.
She has been a finalist at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia several times.
Early life and education
Rayna Gellert was born on December 15, 1975. She grew up in Elkhart, in northern Indiana, formerly lived in Asheville, North Carolina, and is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite web |url=https://www.ourstate.com/rayna-gellert/ |title=The Memory Project: Rayna Gellert |first=Heidi |last=Coryell Williams |website=Our State |date=May 31, 2013}} Her father is the traditional fiddler, banjo player, and singer Dan Gellert. Originally a classically trained violinist, she took up the old-time fiddle in 1994, when she moved to North Carolina to attend Warren Wilson College.{{cite web |title=The Swannanoa Gathering- Old-Time Week Staff Pg.1 |url=http://www.swangathering.com/Catalog/OT/sgotstaff1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030428023917/http://www.swangathering.com/Catalog/OT/sgotstaff1.html |archive-date=28 April 2003 |access-date=17 January 2022 |website=www.swangathering.com}} She received a bachelor's degree from Warren Wilson College. Gellert plays a fiddle that belonged to her great-grandfather, a Hungarian orchestral musician, and guitar.
Career
Gellert has played and recorded with Abigail Washburn, Loudon Wainwright III, Tyler Ramsey, Robyn Hitchcock, and others. She has appeared at music festivals including Bonnaroo, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and RockyGrass.
Discography
=As leader=
- Ways of the World (2000)
- Old Light- Songs from my Childhood & Other Gone Worlds (2012)
- Workin's Too Hard (2017)
=With Uncle Earl=
- 2004 - Going to the Western Slope (EP)
- 2004 - Raise A Ruckus (EP)
- 2005 - She Waits For Night (Rounder)
- 2007 - Waterloo, Tennessee (Rounder)
=With Susie Goehring=
- Starch & Iron (2005)
=With Scott Miller=
== Extended plays ==
=With The Brothers K=
== Extended plays ==
- Rayna Gellert & the Brothers K (2015)
=With Kieran Kane=
- The Ledges (2018)
- When the Sun Goes Down (2019)
- The Flowers That Bloom in Spring (2022)
=Filmography=
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
References
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External links
- [http://www.raynagellert.com/ Rayna Gellert's website]
- [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=46363725 Rayna Gellert MySpace page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20030428023917/http://www.swangathering.com/Catalog/OT/sgotstaff1.html Rayna Gellert bio]
- [http://www.freewebs.com/crookedrain/interviewsnews.htm#101838201 Rayna Gellert interview]
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Category:Appalachian old-time fiddlers
Category:Musicians from Asheville, North Carolina
Category:People from Elkhart, Indiana
Category:American women singer-songwriters
Category:Singers from Nashville, Tennessee
Category:Singer-songwriters from Tennessee
Category:20th-century American violinists
Category:Singer-songwriters from Indiana
Category:Singer-songwriters from North Carolina
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Category:20th-century American singer-songwriters
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