Steve Roy is a multi-instrumentalist from Eliot, Maine who plays and teaches upright bass, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and ukulele. He is fluent in a vast array of musical styles, including bluegrass, jazz, folk, rock, jam, country, old time, heavy metal, etc.
Steve currently performs with Old Hat Stringband, Dead To The Core, and Red Skies, and many other projects. As a sideman, he has toured nationally and internationally with many of the acoustic world’s top acts, including Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, John Reischman and Eli West, Molly Tuttle, David Surette and many others.
He is one of the directors of the Portland Community Mandolin Orchestra, and he has been leading a weekly open bluegrass jam on the NH seacoast for over a decade. Bluegrass Now Magazine calls Steve a “devastating weapon.” He is currently a faculty member at 317 Main Community Music Center in Yarmouth, ME, and at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center in Portsmouth, NH.
Steve is the Program Director at Nimblefingers Old Time & Bluegrass Workshops in British Columbia, and he has taught many other music camps and workshops throughout the USA and Canada. Steve is also a violin maker, and works in the violin shop of Jonathan Cooper, in Portland, ME.
