The Scott Hopkins Jazz Trio features Hopkins on banjo, Luke Franco on guitar, and Tarik Shah on bass. The group performs Hopkins' originals, jazz standards, jazz manouche, and tunes from other genres in a unique trio of banjo, guitar and bass. Luke Franco is the owner of Tiny Hearts Farm in Copake, NY, and the Tiny Hearts flower shop in Hillsdale. He studied jazz guitar at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and plays extensively throughout the Berkshires and the Capital Region of New York. Tarik Shah is a professional jazz musician also living in the Capital Region. As the sole student of Slam Stewart, Shah began playing the upright bass at age 12 and went on to play with Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln and Art Taylor among others.

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