About Eddy Kebabjian

I was given my first guitar by my oldest brother who was impressed with how quickly I became attached with it and how far I progressed in teaching myself how to play.

While in high school, I joined a German Trio and played many dances in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Catskill Mountain resorts during the summer months.

While in college, I hooked up with some musician schoolmates and played the small clubs in the Oneonta, N.Y. area. On summer breaks from college, I formed a small rock-a-billy band and played some of the local resorts in my Catskill Mountain hometown.
 While in the U.S. Army, I played with a small Dixieland group, entertaining at various Officers Clubs on base. After discharge, I came back to Upstate New York and hooked up with Walt and Bob, to form the country rock band the "WEBS". I played every weekend for six years in a local bar in Hunter, N.Y.

For the next 20 years, after my children were born, my only outlet was singing in the United Methodist Church choir, at which time I gained
extensive skills in sight reading notes.

My big break came in 1991 when, after sitting in, I was asked to be a regular member of the Riverboat Jazz Band, a group of really fine musicians.

In 1993, I attended my first Banjofest in Sutton, Mass. Where I met and played with Steve Caddick. Since that meeting, we go to the various banjo events and, somehow, manage to get on the stage together and play. Steve asked me if I had any arrangements with harmony lines and told him I had a few but would be willing to write some more. This was the start of a very long and close friendship. Today, "Steve’s Other Band", lovingly called the "SOB’s" are using most of those arrangements, some of which, you will hear on this CD.