Three Bean Salad

Three Bean Salad is:

Mike Black - Mandolin

Dayle Dryer Black - Fiddle

Mike Yoder - Guitar

Lawrence, Kansas based Three Bean Salad plays a blend of New England Dance, Celtic and other traditional and contemporary styles.

Three Bean Salad has opened up for several top name players such as Mike Marshall, John Reischman, Don Stiernberg & Butch Baldassari.

You would hear members of Three Bean Salad playing at the Carp Camp, during the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield Kansas.

Mike Black Mandolin: Mike's love of power tunes comes from his early years as a heavy metal guitar player. 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.

Yes, we play live. Mostly for contradances, our local farmers market and private affairs

Rodney Miller,

Liz Carroll,

Dave Firestine,

Jay Ungar,

David Grisman,

Frank Zappa,

Johann Sebastian Bach

and more importantly - All good tunes!