"Old Soles" are an acoustic duo blending a twist of wry-whiskey humor into moonshine-flavored Americana.They play a mix of old-time Appalachian & Celtic fiddle tunes, folk and blues, on fiddle and banjo, guitar and Irish whistle, with close harmony vocals.Think NPR / Ken Burns / Coen Brothers soundtracks with just a touch of Wait Wait / Car-Talk humor.
 
"Old Soles" are regular performers on stage at the Strawberry Music Festival (15+ years), and were the house band up at the Kirkwood Inn for 10 years.They've played the Volcano Union Inn (5 years), Feist Wines, Scott Harvey Winery, Estey Family Wines, Sutter Creek Theater, CBA Father's Day Festival (Grass Valley), AmadorArts Concerts in the Park, and many more.They teach Old-Time Stringband music at the California Bluegrass Assoc. Music Camp in Grass Valley (6+ years),and recently had great fun leading some contra dances at the Sawmill Session Old-time Festival in Paris.They've recently moved to a new home in Grass Valley and are excited to be a part of this new vibrant music community!

Masha Goodman Crawford has been playing Old-Time banjo, Irish tinwhistle, and flatfoot clogging since the late 1970's, and singing since she was about 5. She has performed & taught at the University of Chicago Folk Festival, Wheatlands Folk Festival, Eastbourne Folk Festival, Cheddar Folk Festival, and many more across the US and in Europe. She toured for 7 years with the "Winter Night's Yeow", and is a regular performer at the Strawberry Music Festival, calling the barn dance there for the past 30+ festivals.

 
Geff Crawford has been playing Old-Time fiddle for over 40 years, and banjo, guitar, ukulele & mandolin, too. He has performed solo several times at the Strawberry Music Festival as well as in the duo, does school programs and assemblies (he taught kindergarten for 32 years!), teaches fiddle, plays for contra dances, and writes some very funny songs. He hosted an Old-Time radio show for several years on KFOK, and writes the "Old-Time Rambler" column for the California Bluegrass Association.