AKIRA OTSUKA
- From Japan; lives in the Washington DC area.
- Best known as the impressive mandolin player with The Bluegrass 45, a legendary bluegrass band from Japan.
- Has become a fixture in the Washington DC bluegrass scene, plays all the bluegrass instruments.
- Also played in a group called Grazz Matazz, house band at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA.
- 2012, released first solo project on Patuxent Records First Tear
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