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2012 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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Skip Gorman was born in Rhode Island in 1949. He was introduced to traditional music early in his life at the age of eight, when he received his first guitar and a Jimmie Rodgers record. While growing up he was lucky to have the opportunity to see musicians like the legendary Texas fiddler, Eck Robertson, Bill Monroe and Maybelle Carter at the historic Newport Folk Festival. An encounter with Monroe at age twelve was a pivotal moment in the young musician's life, and aside from being a masterful cowboy singer and fine fiddler, Gorman is one of the premier mandolinists in the style of Bill Monroe.
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Chris Henry, son of bluegrass veterans Red and Murphy Henry, has been playing mandolin for 25 of his 31 years. He grew up in Winchester, Virginia, with some of the finest bluegrass musicians around including his parents, David McLaughlin, Scott Brannon, Lynn Morris, and Marshall Wilborn, among other excellent locals including Reno-style banjo picker Dalton Brill. Chris’ style is becoming more well known for a white-knuckle, traditional bluegrass approach, although he is known for throwing in many happy accidentals from time to time. He has performed or recorded with contemporary national acts such as Shawn Camp, Peter Rowan, Bill Emerson, Dale Crider, Verlon Thompson, 1946, Audie Blaylock and Redline, the Lynn Morris Band, and many more.
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Adjunct Professor Mark Royal
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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