NYC scene staples: Baby Copperhead and his inventive banjo

New York-based performer Baby Copperhead shares his namesake with a notably harmless  breed of snake; unlike the animal, he’s got some bite. WNYC called him “the banjo visionary,” but he’s also a singer, a songwriter, a guitarist, an experimentalist. His music is both expansive and intimate; his sound like nothing you’ve ever heard a banjo make but also like every melody your mother sang to lull you to sleep. – Rachel Kerr