Randy Clepper

Multi-instrumentalist Randy Clepper is an accomplished player of Irish traditional music on Irish bouzouki, tenor banjo, fingerstyle guitar, and hammer dulcimer. Randy performs and tours with acclaimed fingerstyle guitarist John Sherman as well as solo and as an accompanist to many well-known players. John and Randy’s recording, “Finally Tuned”, was ranked in the top 10 in three instrumental and traditional album categories by Folk Festival, WDCB Public Radio, Chicago, "a fine and finely tuned album that is intricate in its arrangement and delivery" (TradConnect.com, Ireland).

Randy is based in central Ohio where he is a regular performer at the Dublin (Ohio) Irish Festival as well as the host and curator of the Trad Nua Celtic Series at the renown Columbus-based venue Natalie’s, in which he has featured a number of trad performers from the Tune Supply roster. Formerly of the duo Begley’s Braes with Scottish harpist Christine Fraser Ramsey and a member of the eclectic hammer dulcimer group Hammer On!, Randy has appeared with the Chattanooga Symphony, members of the Yanni World Tour ensemble, aerial dance troupe Project Bandaloop, and once opened for Grammy-nominated folksinger John McCutcheon. He has performed and taught workshops at music festivals across the US.