Multi-instrumentalist Ethan Robbins takes the mic for an afternoon set at The Ford Tavern. Robbins plays guitar, violin, mandolin, piano and bass, and sings bluegrass, folk and rock music. He has played with many bands in the Boston area, most recently the Americana group Cold Chocolate. Robbins began his bluegrass career at Oberlin College in Ohio. A founding member of The Outhouse Troubadours, an Oberlin Bluegrass Phenomenon, he began to explore how this hard-driving fast-paced genre could be stretched.