Dan Isaacs - Dan Isaacs is from Watauga County NC, where he retired from teaching PE and coaching after thirty-two years of service. The Smyth County Jam is fortunate to have musicians of his caliber come to play for us. He is a fiddler, who plays a really fine harmonica, as well. He also played banjo with Clint and Clarence Howard and their family band for about eighteen years. These are enviable credentials for anyone. Dan says all his family played music (not the immediate family); but grand parents, aunts and uncles. He admires all bluegrass musicians, and especially all bluegrass banjo pickers. Dan says he is very proud of his identical twin grandsons who are about one year old.
In January of 2012, the Laurel Creek Trail Band enlisted a man of many talents from the mountains of North Carolina. Dan Isaacs plays banjo, fiddle, and if you stick around long enough he will probably pull out his harmonica.
