Frank Fairfield: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

They came to the Tiny Desk a bit groggy, having been up late playing music in the hotel the night before. It s what Frank Fairfield and his friends Tom Marion and Zac Sokolow do when they re together. And the music they make is casual and mostly handmedown songs from well before Fairfield was born nearly 30 years ago. These old timey marches, polkas and mountain tunes course through Fairfield s veins you can hear it in his spellbinding voice, his fluid fiddle playing, his warmtoned banjo picking and ev