Asheville, N.C. (February 26, 2025)—American Patchwork Quartet, which recently earned a Grammy nomination in the category Best Folk Album for its debut, self-titled outing, is a breathtaking confluence of heritage roots, jazz and world music influences, all woven together to reimagine the songbook of our traditional folk music story.

On paper, it might seem an unlikely combination of talent to form a quartet, but this patchwork of musicians—Falguni Shah, known as Falu, an 11th-generation traditional Indian vocalist; guitarist/producer Clay Ross, who also founded two-time Grammy-winners Ranky Tanky; drummer/percussionist/associate producer Clarence Penn, a protégé of Ellis Marsalis, raised in the Black churches of Detroit; and Tokyo-born acoustic and electric bassist Yasushi Nakamura, whose vast variety of work has brought him to Jazz at Lincoln Center and the New York City Ballet—delivers a…