Jerron Paxton and Dennis Lichtman

A 2017 video shoot at the Louis Armstrong House Museum first paired Jerron Paxton with Dennis Lichtman, and the two New Yorkers have toured as a duo since 2019, with a recent residency at Symphony Space. Their Fogartyville program reaches back a century: acoustic blues, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley songs and 1920s jazz, plus twin-fiddle hoedowns and originals. Paxton, raised in South Central Los Angeles, records for Smithsonian Folkways and moves among guitar, banjo, piano and fiddle; Things Done Changed was his first set of all-original songs. Lichtman plays clarinet, mandolin and fiddle, has worked with David Byrne and Pokey LaFarge, holds credits on HBO's Succession and has run the trad-jazz jam at Mona's since 2007.