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Three Bean Salad

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Lawrence, Kansas based Three Bean Salad is building the Kansas repertoire with energetic and ear catching melodies with a blend of New England Dance, Celtic and other traditional and contemporary styles.
Three Bean Salad was formed originally as a dance band with Mike Black on Mando, Dayle on Piano and the late Gary Hughes on Fiddle. The most recent line up of Three Bean Salad with Mike Yoder on Guitar was cooked up for the 2004 MandoFest held at the historic Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas. Since then Three Bean Salad has opened up for several top name players such as Mike Marshall, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg & Butch Baldassari. Three Bean Salad has also played for Dance Weekends and instrument workshops.
During the month of September, you will find the members of Three Bean Salad playing in the inner circle of the Carp Camp , during the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield Kansas. Three Bean Salad recently played on Stage 3 of the festival to perform their winning instrumental song "Cowley County Breakdown".
The band recently released the recording of their collection of original Kansas tunes for their new CD Reels & Fakes that contain both of the Winfield winning tunes.
Reels & Fakes is the follow-up to thier Acoustic Potluck CD that also has a corresponding Tune Book of those original tunes.
Three Bean Salad is:
Mike Black - Mandolin
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Mike spent a lot of his early years as a heavy metal guitar player, which accounts for his love of power tunes. Mike turned to the mandolin in 1993 after his father got one the year before. In 2004 Mike was named the Kansas State Mandolin Champion. Mike plays the mandolin he built for himself while working as an apprentice for Summit Mandolins.
Dayle Dryer Black - Fiddle;
Dayle grew up singing lots of protest songs while her Dad played guitar and family sang or whistled. Later she studied for a Masters Degree in Classical Piano. Since a real piano couldn’t easily be packed for camping trips, she picked up the fiddle in the fall of 2003 after her first trip to Winfield and has been rocking out since.
Mike Yoder - Guitar;
Mike Yoder is an award winning photographer as well as songwriter. Mike has won the song writing competition at the Walnut Valley Music festival twice. Mike is also a long time member of the renowned Alferd Packer Memorial String Band. Mike is the chief photographer at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper. Some of his photographs can be seen in the books America 24/7 and Kansas 24/7. And most recently finished his own book of photographs for the 100th anniversary of the Vinland Fair .
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Member Since: 12/07/2006
Band Website: www.threebeansalad.net
Band Members: Mike Black - Mandolin ,
Dayle Dryer Black - Fiddle ,
Mike Yoder - Guitar ,

Influences: Rodney Miller,
Liz Carroll,
Dave Firestine,
Jay Ungar,
David Grisman,
Frank Zappa,
Johann Sebastian Bach
and more importantly - All good tunes!
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My Blog

Scratch Box / Scritch & Scratch

Our tune  Scratch Box / Scritch & Scratch, from our new CD Reels & Fakes, has won the Winfield  2009 Instrumental New Song Showcase!!!!  We will be performing the tune (most likely with a lot of the C...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:35:00 GMT

Dan Kessingers

We just got news that our tune, Dan Kessinger's, won the Thursday Alternate for the Winfield New Song showcase!!!!  The tune can be found on our website www.threebeansalad.net Hopefully the other...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:26:00 GMT

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Posted by on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:09:00 GMT

Cowley County Breakdown

Hey, we just wrote another tune tonight.  It's called the Cowley County Breakdown.  Named after our car trouble we had on Memorial Day in Winfield, Kansas.  If you're interested... the...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 21:42:00 GMT

New Tunes Available !!!!

Hello! I'm excited to announce that we have uploaded a couple of our new tunes from our upcoming CD "Acoustic Potluck".  The first one is a medley of Kerouac & Little Tarkio and the other is...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:35:00 GMT