Riverside Arts Market - Jacksonville, FL

Arvid Smith is one of this city's most versatile and revered musicians. He has performed at the Riverside Arts Market more than any other person, both on the River Stage and the Crossroads Stage, and he has played more different musical instruments than anyone else. A fellow artist summed it up best when she said: "Arvid is a Jacksonville treasure."

The musical journey has not ceased for Arvid Smith. His thirty years in Jacksonville has seen involvement in nearly every concievable mode of music fit for a string player. From pretentious out there experimental rave ups at the local Planetarium to new wave when it was really new and on to hobnobbing on the dobro with the cream of old time and bluegrass geezers of all ages, his thirst for musical wandering continues ever onward.

As a member of the roots group Tammerlin, he tours nationally and is probably one of the very few players to have graced the stages of both the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and CBGB music club in Manhattan. With Tammerlin he has shared the stage with such artists as The Band, Emmylou Harris, Roger McGuinn, Dar Williams, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Alex Di Grassi and many other notables.

Never one to keep his involvements to a minimum, he can be caught performing in the Jacksonville area with The 77ds rockabilly thrash or the eclectic Americana of the Longfellow Street Band, as well as providing the backdrop on sitar for a Hatha flow at Ananda Yoga.

When you catch him please stop and say Hi.
At the Riverside Arts Market, Arvid can often be found playing sitar from 9:30 to 10:30a.m. each Saturday, waking up the market with his enchanted strings.

Arvid Smith

http://www.tammerlin.com

Click here to listen to a selection from Tammerlin's latest CD, No Small Thing.

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Below are some of Tammerlin's and Arvid's CDs: