Instructor: Dave Howard

Dave Howard has enjoyed years of singing and playing mandolin throughout the U.S. with The 23 String Band - winners of the Rockygrass Bluegrass Band Competition and Louisville Music Awards Bluegrass Artist of the Year - and has over a decade of experience on-stage with Louisville based Relic Bluegrass band.

Dave serves as Director of Louisville Folk School, a traditional music education community he founded in 2015, and sits on the board of Bluegrass Anonymous - Louisville's Bluegrass Music Association.

Dave moved from his childhood home of Owensboro, KY to study Art History at University of Louisville, and recently apprenticed as a fiddler through a Kentucky Arts Council Masters Apprenticeship Grant for Folk Arts. When he isn't busy performing around the country, he can often be found running joyfully through the woods near his home in the historic Clifton neighborhood.