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Lawrence, Kansas based Three Bean Salad is building the Kansas repertoire with energetic and ear catching melodies with a blend of New England Dance, Celtic and other traditional and contemporary styles.

Three Bean Salad was formed originally as a dance band with Mike Black on Mando, Dayle on Piano and the late Gary Hughes on Fiddle. The most recent line up of Three Bean Salad with Mike Yoder on Guitar was cooked up for the 2004 MandoFest held at the historic Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas. Since then Three Bean Salad has opened up for several top name players such as Mike Marshall, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg & Butch Baldassari. Three Bean Salad has also played for Dance Weekends and instrument workshops.

During the month of September, you will find the members of Three Bean Salad playing in the inner circle of the Carp Camp, during the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield Kansas. Three Bean Salad recently played on Stage 3 of the festival to perform their winning instrumental song "Cowley County Breakdown".

The band recently released the recording of their collection of original Kansas tunes for their new CD Acoustic Potluck with a corresponding Tune Book of those original tunes.

Three Bean Salad is:

Mike Black - Mandolin;

Mike spent a lot of his early years as a heavy metal guitar player, which accounts for his love of power tunes. Mike turned to the mandolin in 1993 after his father got one the year before. In 2004 Mike was named the Kansas State Mandolin Champion. Mike plays the mandolin he built for himself while working as an apprentice for Summit Mandolins.

Dayle Dryer Black - Fiddle;

Dayle grew up singing lots of protest songs while her Dad played guitar and family sang or whistled. Later she studied for a Masters Degree in Classical Piano. Since a real piano couldn’t easily be packed for camping trips, she picked up the fiddle in the fall of 2003 after her first trip to Winfield and has been rocking out since.

Mike Yoder - Guitar;

Mike Yoder is an award winning photographer as well as songwriter. Mike has won the song writing competition at the Walnut Valley Music festival twice. Mike is also a long time member of the renowned Alferd Packer Memorial String Band. Mike is the chief photographer at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper. Some of his photographs can be seen in the books America 24/7 and Kansas 24/7. And most recently finished his own book of photographs for the 100th anniversary of the Vinland Fair.