It would be great to have Caleb Klauder there. To my ears, he hits all the buttons, so to speak. And though it may be a long shot, Luke Plumb might offer a wonderful sense of some Scotch-Irish styles, and I think it would show the true cross-continental evolution of this music right before our eyes and ears. These are too young and very formidable practitioners that are a bit over looked in our fair circle. I hope this is to be considered. Carl Jackson also crossed my mind as well. And if I may say, there is is no one more suited to run this process than Mike Compton. Best to all, David
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM, mistertaterbug <[email protected]>wrote: > > I agreed today to take the administrative (uhm...or was that advisory) > duties for the International Bluegrass Music Museum's Bill Monroe > Mandolin Camp 2009. I understand that Mike Lawing doesn't work at the > museum anymore, so that leaves a gap. From what I can gather thus far, > the camp will basically be similar in format to the last few. It will > be on/around Monroe's birthday and will be Friday/Saturday/Sunday. > There will be at least 5 instructors and the topics will be somewhat > similar, but I am looking at other aspects of KY style bluegrass > mandolin that have not been touched on so much before. > > I know some of you on this here list have been to the camp, whilst > others have not. What I would like for you to do, beings we have this > forum, is to think about what it was you didn't get last time that > would have been welcome knowledge. What aspects of Bill's music did > not get looked at, either at all or adequately? Is there something > slipping through the cracks that I'm just not thinking of? What have I > left out? Are there artists currently working that have not worked as > instructors at the camp before that either loosely base some of their > work on Monroe's mandolin style or whom you'd like to see tackle KY > style mandolin with a more contemporary flair? The camp is, of course, > devoted to furthering and explaining Monroe's work and music, so I'm > not saying we need to get too far out on a limb. I am also looking at > possibly having the "before bluegrass" idea actively pursued, as well > as the black mandolin culture. Maybe we should go to Arnold Schultz' > gravesite. > > Anyway, I would welcome any suggestions/requests/complaints that may > be floating around. I think there needs to be some other activities to > do besides classes too, but right now at this early stage in the game, > I'm drawing a blank. Now's the time to have your say. > > Tater > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
