Artist · Player
Allison de Groot
Clawhammer banjo player. 2024 Steve Martin Banjo Prize winner.
- Role
- Clawhammer Banjo
- Based
- Raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Instruments
- Clawhammer Banjo
Allison de Groot is a clawhammer banjo player from Winnipeg and a 2024 Steve Martin Banjo Prize winner (shared with Tray Wellington). With fiddler Tatiana Hargreaves she records for Free Dirt Records; their 2022 album Hurricane Clarice earned a Juno nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year and two Canadian Folk Music Awards. She was a 2023 Americana Music Association nominee for Instrumentalist of the Year.
She played banjo on Fifty Years of Clown School.
Credits include
Steve Martin Banjo Prize 2024 · Hurricane Clarice (Juno-nominated) · Molsky's Mountain Drifters
Recorded music
9 records
2025 TNC001 The Nashville Collective
Fifty Years of Clown School
Matt Combs
Banjo
2023 Free Dirt Records
Hurricane Clarice: Outtakes, Vol. 1
with Tatiana Hargreaves
ArtistClawhammer BanjoVocals
2022 Free Dirt Records
Hurricane Clarice
with Tatiana Hargreaves
ArtistClawhammer BanjoVocals
Juno-nominated; produced by Phil Cook
2022
The Thrill
Nic Gareiss & Allison de Groot
ArtistClawhammer BanjoVocals
NPR Best Roots Music of 2022
2019 Free Dirt Records
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
with Tatiana Hargreaves
ArtistCo-ProducerClawhammer BanjoVocals
2019
Closing the Gap
Molsky's Mountain Drifters
ComposerBanjoVocals
Title track is de Groot's original composition
2016 Tree Frog Music
Molsky's Mountain Drifters
Molsky's Mountain Drifters
Clawhammer Banjo
2016
Snowy Side of the Mountain
The Goodbye Girls
Band MemberCo-ProducerBanjoAlbum Design
2014
Going to Boston
The Goodbye Girls
Band MemberBanjoLead VocalsAlbum Design