I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by musicians. Attending jams and festivals since I was eight months old, I started playing the mandolin at age 11.

When I was in the 10th grade, I proposed an independent study to my music teacher at school to supplement my music classes. While trying to figure out what kind of project I wanted to do, I knew that in some way I wanted to include the NYC bluegrass and old-time community.

At that time, I was fascinated by interviews with jazz, rock, and folk greats, and continuously searched for interviews with my favorite Americana artists but quickly found that they were not as common.

After a week, I finally realized that if I wanted to see these interviews with my favorite musicians, then I would need to make them, so I set out to interview the musicians in NYC that I thought made the biggest contributions to both the music as well as the community.

Most of the musicians that I interviewed, I met through a jam called Sad Song Happy Hour in Gowanus, Brooklyn at a Japanese tea house called Mirror in the Woods.

After doing 4 interviews, with the continuous question being; what will I make of these interviews, I decided to turn them into a documentary.

Between 2018-2020, I interviewed a total of 21 musicians mostly based in NYC. With all these interviews, as well as other footage I gathered over the years, I created a 90 minute documentary focusing on the beautiful and thriving NYC bluegrass scene; Bluegrass Grows In Brooklyn.