Jayme Stone keeps an ear to the ground. His curiosity and unlikely set of reference points started early with the quirky physics of the banjo, led to a mysterious librarian who stocked his local public library with a vast trove of banjo recordings, and landed him long-lasting lessons with a series of maestros, from Béla Fleck to Bill Frisell. Influenced by Japanese poetry and Brazilian literature and featuring what he calls a “tiny symphony that takes place inside an imaginary light bulb”, Stone’s album, The Utmost, won the 2008 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year.

Stone is set to release his newest album, Room of Wonders, in the fall of 2010 which explores music based on folk dances from around the world and includes hornpipes, mazurkas, straphspeys and sambas from Norway, Sweden, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Tunisia and North America.

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