Kaz Inaba & Jack Hinshelwood

Popular Japanese bluegrass artist Kazuhiro Inaba will perform with Virginia guitarist Jack Hinshelwood.

Kaz grew up in a bluegrass family in the Kansai region of Japan. His dad was a banjo player and his older brother a mandolinist, and young Kaz likewise took up banjo when he was 15. Throughout the 1970s the Inaba Brothers performed together near their home, and in the ’80s Kaz set off on his own.