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2010 Camp Staff   Mike Compton, Camp Director, has been performing professionally since 1977 and has performed with many greats including Hubert Davis, John Hartford and Dr. Ralph Stanley. He has also traveled the world as part of the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Mike does numerous workshops and music camps throughout the year, as well as composes and treasures his memories of a friendship with his mentor, Bill Monroe. Richie (Dr. Richard) Brown, Associate Director, has been a part-time bluegrass musician in the Boston area since the mid-sixties. Richie's playing is heavily influenced by Bill Monroe's style and "old style" mandolin players. He currently plays mandolin and sings in the Boston-based Reunion Band and serves on the Board of Trustees for the International Bluegrass Music Museum.    Bobby Osborne has been performing for over six decades and has won countless awards. As part of the Osborne Brothers, Bobby has been on the festival scene since the 1960's, and has set attendance records for bluegrass festivals and winter theatre shows that still stand to this day. Bobby is a member of the International Bluegrass Music Associations Hall of Fame and continues to produce some of the greatest music of his long-storied career. Bobby continues to perform today with his current band The Rocky Top Express.   David Harvey began performing professionally at the age of 14 alongside Red Allen. Not only is he a master mandolin and fiddle player, David is also a highly praised teacher. David's 30 plus years of performing and teaching experience allow him to assist students of all playing levels. He also heads the Mandolin Department at the Gibson Instrument Company, where he also conducts mandolin and vintage instrument symposiums.   Skip Gorman has played old time and bluegrass styles of mandolin for 46 years. Ken Burns has used Skip's mandolin music in his PBS series Baseball. Skip is a nationally renowned fiddler and singer of cowboy ballads, and has recorded for Rounder, Folk Legacy, Columbia and Old West recordings. His latest projects are Mandolin In The Cow Camp and Old Style Mandolin, Vols. 1 & 2. LUTHIERS Will Kimble was born in 1969, fell in love with mandolins in 1997, and began building in 2000. His father Fred Kimble, taught him how to build and still works with him to this day. They have been fortunate to have help from their friend and mentor, Lynn Dudenbostel, and they continue to be inspired by Loar-era Gibsons.  Paul Duff is the mandolin player and band leader of Bluegrass Parkway. He is also one of Australia's premier mandolin builders, exporting the majority of his instruments to satisfy an ever increasing demand from the United States. SPECIAL GUESTS Dave Peterson is a savvy independent recording artist and a bluegrass singer who cherishes tradition. Dave is a Boston native who learned about bluegrass from a deacon at his church. When he got serious about the mandolin, guitar and bluegrass music in 1995, he left his track from becoming a minister to pursue music. Danny Jones grew up in rural Grayson and Ohio counties in Kentucky where he was exposed to Bluegrass music, "Thumb style" guitar picking and close harmony brother style duets. Dan helped form the legendary band Bluegrass Alliance and later went on to play guitar for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Dan continues freelancing and teaching in Louisville, Kentucky, while touring with Joe Isaacs as well as various former Blue Grass Boys.