Meet the High Strung Staff
Adam Sampieri
Originally from Northern NJ, Adam Sampieri is now proud to
call the Bull City his home for work and play. He has seen
several tours of duty fronting various bands between NC and
NJ and at present is working solo as a singer/songwriter,
constantly honing his craft around the Triangle. His music
has been featured on stage, screen, and radio. Adam is
also an active and accomplished theater artist with numerous
professional credits to his name as an actor, director,
playwright, and designer. When not making music and art,
he's usually watching DVRed hockey games or checking
Mets' box scores.
Aaron Greenhood
Aaron is High Strung’s resident mandolin enthusiast. Aaron is
available to talk to you about not only mandolins, but guitars,
violins and ukes and anything else you might be looking for.
A lover of Appalachian mountain music, Klezmer, and
anything that sounds a little crooked, Aaron plans to attend
as many festivals as he can this summer (check out our
festivals calendar). Before moving to Durham in the fall of
2007, Aaron chased down stories with his camera in
Brooklyn, New York for the newspapers there. In addition to
helping connect people with instruments and their musical
potential, Aaron produces online multimedia content for
documentary photography outlet, Daylight Magazine. Check
it out: www.daylightmagazine.org.
Edmond "Bud" Godreau
Violin Luthier
Bud has been with High Strung longer than any of the rest of
us, starting when the shop was still on Perry Street. Bud has
been building and repairing violins and other bowed string
instruments for thirty-some years, studying under Hans
Nebel and other luthiers. Bud is an accomplished fiddle, banjo
and mandolin player; was the dj of one of Connecticut's first
bluegrass radio programs, and is, in fact, a rocket scientist.
