‘Lady of the Lake’ is the first single and title track from Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman’s upcoming EP. 18-year-old banjoist/vocalist Nora Brown, who has been hailed a ‘Teen Banjo Wunderkind’, and has already made appearances at Newport Folk Festival, The Kennedy Center, Trans-Pecos Festival and globalFEST, has teamed up with award-winning fiddle player and fellow Brooklynite Stephanie Coleman. Their EP will be released just three days before the duo are set to tape an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

Despite their twenty-year age difference, the chemistry and richness of Brown and Coleman’s musical partnership cannot be overstated, and it reflects the six years the duo have performed live together.

The EP was produced, recorded, and mixed by legendary folk producer, engineer and fellow banjo player, Peter K Siegel, whose illustrious career includes: playing with John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful); recording Neil Young and producing Joseph Spence and Doc Watson; recording concerts by Mississippi John Hurt, Roscoe Holcomb, Booker White and Dock Boggs; taping an iconic Bob Dylan bootleg in the basement of Gerde’s Folk City; as well as important field recordings of musicians in Indonesia, China and Sweden.

Siegel has expressed his admiration for both musicians, saying, “I was a big fan of both Nora and Steph when they were performing separately. Their new collaboration is more than the sum of its parts. They make their virtuosity so much fun to listen to. Their music is deeply rooted in American tradition, but the excitement of their performances is all theirs.”

To delve into the origins of this new single, Coleman said she learned the instrumental title track from a performance by Eric Merrill at a fiddle competition in West Virginia’s Appalachian String Band Music Festival, also known as Clifftop. In fact, she holds the record for most ribbons won at the renowned fiddle contest. Coleman has also recorded and toured internationally with artists such as the trailblazing all-women string band Uncle Earl, Watchhouse’s Andrew Marlin, Aoife O’Donovan and clawhammer banjo virtuoso Adam Hurt.

Brown is fresh from two sold-out shows in London and has festivals set for Canada, England and Denmark, and a spring Japanese tour; with the duo set to make their US West Coast debut with gigs in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, WA.

The title track from the Lady of the Lake EP is out now, while the EP will be out July 28 via Jalopy Records