Long Road is:

David Budin                   guitar, vocals & comedy
Raymond DeForest        upright bass & vocals
Celia Hollander Lewis    guitar, banjo, autoharp, Celtic harp, bowed psaltry, hammered     
                                       dulcimer, lap dulcimer, recorder, penny whistle & vocals
Charlie Lewis                 guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, hammered dulcimer & vocals
Bob Sandham                acoustic and electric guitars, pedal steel guitar & vocals

Long Road has been a group since 2007, but its members have a combined total of more than 200 years of professional music experience (though no one member has actually been playing for quite that long).  They are all veterans of rock, folk, blues, bluegrass and jazz groups (with a little classical as well).

Long Road plays intricate arrangements, using various combinations of more than 20 mostly acoustic instruments, including guitars, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, autoharp, Celtic harp, fiddle, pedal steel guitar, hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltry, acoustic bass, and five voices.

Long Road calls itself “Cleveland’s favorite – and only – ‘60s-style folk group.”  The group’s motto is “Making Old Songs New and New Songs Sound Old” because it performs not only ‘60s folk, but folk-y versions of early-‘50s rockabilly, late-‘60s psychedelic rock, early and contemporary country, traditional folk, ‘60s folk-rock, blues, bluegrass, contemporary folk and pop, and a few originals – but all in a ‘60s folk style.

Long Road believes in doing what the group's founder David Budin calls a “whole show,” meaning that there is no down time – Budin provides humor and music history between all the songs (with no awkward silences, no long tuning sessions with nothing else happening, no figuring out what to play next, no shuffling papers or messing around with amp settings, or drinking water …).  So even though not all of the songs are from the ‘60s, the show itself is the kind you would have experienced in a ‘60s folk club or concert.

Long Road performs infrequently, by design, and every show includes many songs the group has never performed prior to that one.  So catch a Long Road show when you can.  For instance, a very good time to see them would be at their next show – wherever that may be.  Please check the "Gigs" page on this site.