River Brown and the Swell Strings- Red Bird for Cokesbury Concert ‪@Swellstrings‬

May 2026, Hockessin, DE. River Brown- Fiddle Ed Bonghi- Guitar Barb Wood- Bass River (age 9) is a student in the Temple University Center for Gifted Young Musicians, where she studies with Hirono Oka. She also occasionally travels to Texas to study with Brian Lewis, and she began her violin studies with Shelley Beard Santore. She has learned fiddle from Andrew Vogts, and from her brother, Max.