Dirk Powell

Dirk Powell is an American fiddler and banjo player. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo styles. Powell is also a recording engineer and producer, with, as of 2018, his own Cypress House Studio in Beaux Bridge, near Lafayette, Louisiana.

Powell has won four Grammy Awards and has been a guest on American television shows including Late Night with David Letterman, the Today Show, and American Masters. He was a longtime member of the Cajun band Balfa Toujours. Powell has recorded with Rhiannon Giddens, Loretta Lynn, Irma Thomas, Tim O'Brien, Kyle Carey and Eric Clapton.

• If I Go Ten Thousand Miles (Rounder, 1996)
• Songs from the Mountain (Howdy Skies, 1999)
• Tony Furtado & Dirk Powell (Rounder, 1999)
• Hand Me Down (Rounder, 1999)
• Time Again (Rounder, 2004)
• A Fret Free Christmas (Valcour, 2010)
• Walking Through Clay (Sugar Hill/Welk Music Group, 2014)
• I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country four-EP set - various artists (Valcour Records, 2015)
• Cajun Accordion Kings (and the Queen) various artists (Valcour Records, 2015)

See also Balfa Toujours.