The best part is that this interface isn’t unidirectional: It flows both ways.
“I have gotten some [Nepali] kids hooked on bluegrass stuff,” she said. “They’d play for us, and we’d play for them. The look in their eyes watching a Scruggs-style banjo roll. It was like— whoa!”
“One of the kids,” she reminisced, “one of the first things he looked up [online] was banjos.”
He asked if Linhardt could get him one. Her initial reply was funny and true.
“Kathmandu is a hard place to find banjos!”
“I teach mandolin and guitar, and as I bring Nepali musicians and American musicians together and watching them inspire each other…watching that cross-fertilization that transcends cultures…” she reminisced, a dreamy sound to her voice. “We can all get our groove on together.”