The Ozark Highballers are a three to four piece string band from Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Since 2014 the Ozark Highballers have brought their music to square dances, farmers markets, festivals, workshops, as well as plain old street corners and front porches. Their music reflects the spirit and drive of the rural Ozark string bands of the 1920s and '30s. This old-fashioned ensemble features the dynamic melody duo of Roy Pilgrim on fiddle and Seth Shumate on harmonica, accompanied by the intricate string tickling of Clarke Buehling on five-string banjo, and the driving chords and bass runs of Aviva Steigmeyer on guitar. The Ozark Highballers have performed and taught at the Brooklyn Folk Festival, Stepehen Foster Old-time Week,  Bluff Country Gathering, St. Louis Folk & Roots, CROMA,  Ozark Folk Center, and have recently received the Artist 360 grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance.