Sara Grey is widely known and respected – both as a singer of traditional ballads and songs, and as a powerful, yet lyrical old-time banjo player. Although she grew up in New Hampshire, she was exposed to old-time Appalachian music during her childhood when her father was in the military and stationed in North Carolina. While still in her twenties, she joined a circle of traditional singers called the Golden Ring, which also included such folk-music notables as Ed Trickett and Gordon Bok; most of them would go on to record for Folk Legacy, a prestigious independent label (Sara’s banjo playing on her first Folk Legacy LP, Sara Grey with Ed Trickett would deeply inspire MBC Director Ken Perlman). She moved to Scotland in 1970 and over the next few decades became a major fixture of the British folk scene. Sara often performs at folk festivals in the States, the UK and the European continent, and she teaches at traditional music camps and schools around the world. She now makes her home in Rockland, Maine.