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2011 Camp Staff
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Mike Compton, Camp Director, has been performing professionally since 1977 and has performed with many greats including Hubert Davis, John Hartford, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Elvis Costello. He travels the world as part of the Nashville Bluegrass Band and other bands. Mike does numerous workshops and music camps throughout the year. He also composes and teaches, passing along the treasures he acquired from his mentor and friend, Bill Monroe.
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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.
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Alabama native and member of The Alabama Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, David Davis has traveled and preformed as frontman for the bluegrass group, David Davis and the Warrior River Boys since 1984. He is recognized as one of the foremost practitioners of the Monroe mandolin techinique. His interest in old-time and bluegrass music grew organically from a musical family, both his father and grandfather were players and singers. His uncle, Cleo Davis, was Bill Monroe's original Blue Grass Boy.
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Throughout Butch’s near 50 years of playing the mandolin, Bill Monroe has been the major influence, and a long friendship with the Father of Bluegrass allowed him to observe the Master up close and personal. Butch’s band, High Country, long the keeper of the traditional bluegrass flame in California, was the first from the West Coast ever to be invited to play Bill’s Bean Blossom Festival. |
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Roland White has had a distinguished career devoted to playing bluegrass in several of the most popular and influential groups in the music’s history, including Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. He has taught mandolin and guitar for the past 20 years and has published several instructional books. He has a reputation as a gentle and patient teacher. Roland White has recently founded his own bluegrass group, The Roland White Band.
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LUTHIERS
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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.
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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. |
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