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...Connor, who plays the mandolin, notes that bluegrass is one of the few subsets of American folk music that was largely pioneered by one person. Mandolin player Bill Monroe formed the Blue Grass Boys in 1939, and was later joined by banjoist Earl Scruggs and singer/guitarist Lester Flatt. Bluegrass, whose instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass, and fiddle, emerged as a kind of commercially disseminated folk music a decade later. It then began to permeate early rock music in unexpected ways: the offbeat mandolin chop characteristic of bluegrass music, for example, eventually evolved into the snare-drum offbeat...
Zaccagnino hung close to the empty case, anxious to meet a fellow banjoist. That banjoist turned out to be John D. Hegge ’05, who would become Zaccagnino’s roommate in Dunster House...
...Caps" is a collection of those performances from over the years featuring Bush and a cast of equally gifted guest performers. Among the most notable of these are newgrass veterans Jerry Douglas on dobro (who gets a great ride on "Girl from the North Country") and especially banjoist Bela Fleck, whose inspired playing puts the instrument through paces that Earl Scruggs could hardly have imagined...
...show, an most of the crowd was there to see these bluegrass stalwarts. The Scene have been together for twenty-two years (although lead singer Kline is just 30), and continue to challenge themselves with both lightingfast arrangements and slower, subtler ballads. Dobro player Mike Auldridge, mandolinist Duffy and banjoist Ben Eldridge play beautifully together, alternately combining amazing speed with a relaxed, confident knowledge of their repertoire...
...after eight. The lights went off about twenty minutes ago, and for the first time, banjoist Bela Fleck approaches the microphone set up at the front of the stage. He and his Flecktones--bassist Victor Lamonte Wooten and Synth Axe Drumitarist Roy Wooten (also known as Future Man)--have just ripped through an amazing rendition of "Vix-9," the first song on the Flecktone's new album, Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...