Rafe Stefanini

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Rafe Stefanini (2009)

Raffaello "Rafe" Stefanini (* 1954 ) is an Italian banjo and fiddle player of Old-Time Music , violin maker and restorer.

Stefanini, who grew up in Bologna, had four years of training in violin making with Otello Bignami at the EPICAR violin making school. He founded his first band Moonshine Brothers in Italy with two brothers. After first visits in the 1970s, he moved to the USA in 1983, where he lives in Elkins Park (Pennsylvania) . There he founded the group Wildcats with Carol Elizabeth Jones and Stefan Senders , which toured Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei in the late 1980s on behalf of the United States Information Agency and released some music cassettes.

In 1990, he founded the Fiddler trio L-7s with Dirk Powell and Bruce Molsky . After Powell left in 1993 and guitarist Beverly Smith joined , the group continued to work under the name Big Hoedown until 2000 and toured as far as Germany and Finland. Her album of the same name shows Stefanini's skills as a fiddle and banjo player. In the group The Rockinghams , Stefanini appeared with Beverly Smith, Meredith McIntosh and John Hermann . He is also a member of the Jumpsteady Boys , a band he formed with Bruce Molsky. He also made recordings with Bob Herring. With his wife Nikki and daughter Clelia he appeared as Nine Pound Hammer . With his daughter Clelia Stefanini and with John Doyle , John Herrmann and Eamon O'Leary , he released an album of the same name as The Immigrant Band in 2016.

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  1. ↑ Old-time music is resident's blood in Elkins Park
  2. ↑ Review (fiddlefreak.com)
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SURNAME Stefanini, Rafe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stefanini, Raffaello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian old-time music banjo and fiddle player, violin maker and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954