My Gay Banjo

My Gay Banjo

Featured / Musician

Owen Taylor and I were housemates for five years, beginning in 2008. My Gay Banjo brought together country and character songs I’d written for plays, and Owen’s folk songs he’d written over time. Together, we started experimenting with mash-ups which became part of our early signature style. In 2009 we began playing out at small venues, friend’s houses and parties.

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We recorded our first album, “My Gay Banjo,” in 2010 in our home in Brooklyn. Two years later we recorded “Limp Wrist & A Steady Hand” in a friend’s converted garage studio in Long Island. In 2014 we recorded our first studio album, “Country Boys in the City,” produced and recorded by Kyle Pulley at The Headroom in Philadelphia. It featured many talented musicians: Yosi Perlstein on drums, fiddle, and percussion, Todd Chandler on stand-up bass, Elana Redfield on pedal steel and guitar, Anna Callner on cello. In 2017 we recorded our most “political” album, “To the Wolves” after Trump’s election. Yosi Perlstein is on that album as well, but it returns to a more stripped-down sound like the earlier albums.

In 2012 we began touring nationally, and over the next five years toured extensively throughout the northeast, southeast, west coast and northwest. We released a few music videos and continue to tour, harmonize, banter, get the audience to sing along, wear mustaches and matching shirts, and other fun stuff like that.

Visit the My Gay Banjo website and facebook and Instagram pages.