David Brose holds a BA in folklore from Ohio State University and an MA in ethnomusicology from Indiana University. During his folkloric fieldwork, he collected musical selections of elder masters of the banjo spanning the 1970s to today, as well as traditional music in the American West and South. David was the state folklorist in Colorado and Iowa and has done research for the Smithsonian. He has played banjo since 1963; has produced many video and radio documentaries, including radio programs for NPR; and has been folklorist at the Folk School since 1991.