Ken & Brad Kolodner

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Ken & Brad Kolodner

Father & Son Duo
Hammered Dulcimer and Banjo
Billboard-Charting Recording Artists
Founders of Baltimore Old Time Music Festival
www.kenandbrad.com

09/11/2026

Ken & Brad Kolodner — the father-and-son acoustic duo from Baltimore — began playing together more than 15 years ago now in living room jam sessions. At the time, neither of them knew they would wind up doing this professionally — but here they are, with their fifth studio album, Hand’s Cove...

08/28/2026

What a dreamy evening with dear pals! It was a joy to share a bill with Richie & Rosie at our annual Backyard Concert last weekend. Richie was Brad’s first banjo teacher!

Thanks to Christine Berg Brennan Schmidt for the photos!

08/27/2026

Our concert tonight in Bolton Hill is cancelled due to thunderstorms 😥

08/20/2026

Yippee! #5 on the Folk Alliance International charts! Thanks to all the Folk DJs spinning our new album Hand’s Cove 🛶

📸 A highlight of the summer performing in our bathing suits at Ossipee Valley Music Festival on the River Stage. Moments after this photo, we plunged into the river!

07/21/2026

Look what we found! Our new album Hand’s Cove is officially ten days old 🐣 We’re up in Vermont getting some rest before playing the Ossipee Valley Music Festival fest in Maine this weekend 🦞

07/09/2026

Our 15th Annual Backyard Concert is coming up!

Ken & Brad's 15th Annual Backyard Concert featuring

The Ken & Brad Kolodner Quartet with our special guests:

Richie and Rosie

Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Baltimore MD

Richie and Rosie were featured at The 7th Annual Baltimore Old Time Festival and over 10 years ago at one of our the backyard concert.

https://www.kenkolodner.com/backyard.html

06/23/2026

Our Album Release Concert is this Friday, June 26 at Creative Alliance in Baltimore! We’re excited to celebrate the release of our new album Hand’s Cove with our hometown community at one of our favorite local venues. We’ll have copies of the album available at the show.

We’ll debut new music from Hand’s Cove with our full quartet: Brad on banjo and gourd banjo, Ken on hammered dulcimer and hammered mbira, Rachel Eddy on guitar and fiddle, and Alex Lacquement on upright bass.

This album celebrates 15 years of making music together as a father-son duo. What started as living room jam sessions has grown into five albums, countless concerts, and a musical partnership we never could have imagined. We hope you’ll join us at Creative Alliance on June 26 to celebrate Hand’s Cove!

05/13/2026

New music alert! The first single and title track off our upcoming new album Hand’s Cove is out today! Featuring gourd banjo and hammered dulcimer, we’re joined by Rachel Eddy on guitar and Alex Lacquement on bass for this groovy original tune. Listen and Pre-order at links in bio.

The tune is inspired by Hand’s Cove on Lake Champlain in Vermont adjacent to a family cabin that has been passed down for generations on Alison’s side of the family (Brad’s mom and Ken’s wife). The cove has historical significance as it’s where Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys hid in the dark of night before paddling across the lake to capture Fort Ticonderoga in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. We often canoe deep into the marshy cove alongside lily pads, cattails and majestic birds overhead. Brad composed “Hand’s Cove” imagining what it must’ve felt like to hide out in the cove moments before paddling across the lake to capture the fort.

01/21/2026

UPCOMING CONCERTS for The Ken & Brad Kolodner Quartet

Fri, Jan 30, 2026 - Solomons, MD
Calvert Marine Museum
7:00 PM
Tickets https://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/231/Maritime-Performance-Series

Sat, Jan 31, 2026 - Monkton, MD
The Manor Mill
4:30 show – SOLD OUT
7:30 show – still plenty of tickets but moving fast
Tickets https://calendar.manor-mill.com/events/ken-and-brad-kolodner-730/

Fri, Feb 13, 2026 - Berryville, VA
The Barns of Rosehill
7:00 pm
Tickets https://www.barnsofrosehill.org/concerts/kolodner-quartet

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http://www.kenandbrad.com/

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