Frank Fairfield is a musician associated with folk, bluegrass, country, americana and old-time music. He performs on banjo and fiddle and also sings. He is described as being discovered at a farmers market in California, and his work is presented as drawing on traditional American forms rather than as an imitation of a vanished past.

He is identified in the input as a late 19th century composer. Beyond that, the available information is limited to his role as a performer of American-rooted acoustic music and the idea that he approaches the material as a craftsman working within his own present rather than as a nostalgic revivalist.