- Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe developed the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. He is often referred to as "the father of bluegrass." Monroe was born in Rosine, Kentucky. His father, James Buchanan Monroe, was a well-to-do farmer while his mother, Melissa Ann Van Diver, … - David Grisman
David Grisman is an acclaimed mandolin player. As a teenager, David met and studied with mandolinist/folklorist, Ralph Rinzler. He learned to play the mandolin in the style of Bill Monroe , the father of bluegrass music. David studied English at NYU and became immersed in the proliferating folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the early 1960's. - Chris Thile
Christopher Scott Thile (pronounced THEE-lee) (born February 20 1981) is both a renowned mandolin player and founding member of the progressive bluegrass trio Nickel Creek, along with Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins. The three met in Carlsbad, California at "That Pizza Place" in 1989, whilst listening to weekly bluegrass shows with their parents. Soon they were taking lessons from the same instructor, playing festivals, and even recording albums, their first, … - Sam Bush
Sam Bush (b. April 13 1952 in Bowling Green, Kentucky) is an American mandolin player. As well as being an accomplished bluegrass vocalist, Bush also is a capable instrumentalist on guitar and fiddle. He was a founding member of the New Grass Revival and has been called a modern day Bill Monroe. Sam is one of the main attractions at the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado. - Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs (born July 18 1954, in Lawrence County, Kentucky) is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, and, primarily, mandolin. Skaggs' music career began in 1970 when he joined Ralph Stanley's famous bluegrass band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. For a few years, Skaggs was a member of Emmylou Harris's group, Hot Band. He wrote the arrangements for Harris's bluegrass-roots album, "Roses in the Snow". - Mike Marshall
Mike Marshall is a mandolin player and has been an instrumental part of new acoustic music for the past 25 years. He has performed and recorded with many musicians in a variety of styles, including bluegrass, classical, jazz and Brazilian music. In addition to several instruments in the mandolin family, Marshall also plays the guitar and violin. Marshall has recorded and toured with other contemporary acoustic musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, … - Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (b. March 16 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American bluegrass musician. O'Brien plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and mandocello and is an accomplished vocalist. He moved to Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and became part of the music scene there. In 1978, he founded the bluegrass group Hot Rize. Hot Rize had its own ofshoot band called Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers. The band would walk off stage, change clothes, … - Steve Earle
Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and country music, as well as for his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play. In his early career, he was seen as a saviour of country music and labeled by some as the "new Bruce Springsteen". - Doyle Lawson
Doyle Lawson is an American bluegrass musician. He was born on April 20, 1944 in Ford Town, Sullivan County, Tennessee, near Kingsport, the son of Leonard and Minnie Lawson. Doyle Lawson is best known as an accomplished mandolin player and leader of the 5-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver which he formed in April, 1979. Prior to that, he was a member of the Country Gentlemen and of J.D. Crowe's New South. - Jesse McReynolds
Jesse Lester McReynolds (born July 9, 1929, in Coeburn, Virginia) is known for his innovative crosspicking and split-string styles of mandolin playing, is an innovator of bluegrass music and is a forty two year member of the Grand Ole Opry. Jesse McReynolds, along with his late brother, Jim McReynolds, formed the bluegrass pioneering band Jim and Jesse in or around 1947. In 1993 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. - Norman Blake
Norman Blake (born March 10, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee)) is a Grammy-nominated instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter who has played in a number of folk and bluegrass groups. When Norman was one year old, his family moved to Sulphur Springs, Georgia where he was raised. Although known as one of the most prominent acoustic guitar flatpickers of his day, Norman Blake is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. - Yank Rachell
Yank Rachell (born James Rachell near Brownsville, Tennessee, March 16, 1910; d. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 9, 1997) was an American blues musician. Rachell, whose career as a performer spanned nearly eighty years, was often teamed with the guitarist and singer Sleepy John Estes. Though a capable guitarist and singer, he was better known as a master of the blues mandolin. - Peter Ostroushko
Peter Ostroushko (b. August 12, 1953) is an American violinist and mandolinist of Ukrainian ancestry. He has released numerous recordings and is a regular performer on the "A Prairie Home Companion" radio program. - Jacob do Bandolim
Jacob do Bandolim was a Brazilian composer and musician. Born Jacob Pick Bittencourt, his stage name means "Mandolin Jacob", after the instrument he played. A perfectionist, Jacob was able to achieve from his band "Época de Ouro" the highest levels of quality. Jacob hated the stereotype of the "dishevelled, drunk folk musician" and required commitment and impeccable dress from his musicians who, like himself, all held "day jobs". - Frank Wakefield
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield (born June 26, 1934) is a legendary American mandolin player. Frank Wakefield is notable as a great bluegrass player and for his significant innovations that have shaped the way many musicians play the mandolin. Wakefield's pedigree as a bluegrass giant can be seen through his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands, including Red Allen, Jimmy Martin, Don Reno, Jerry Garcia, Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe, … - Ronnie McCoury
Ronnie McCoury is a mandolin player, singer and songwriter born in 1967. Best known for his work with his father's band (Del McCoury Band), he has also recorded solo albums and one with David Grisman called Mandolin Extravaganza. Ronnie McCoury was born in York County, Pennsylvania on March 16, 1967. It was in York County that he made his home for the first 24 years of his life. In January of 1992, Ronnie and his wife Allison made the move to Nashville, … - Simon Mayor
Simon Mayor is one of the world's leading mandolinists as well as a fine fiddle player, guitarist, composer and wit. His live performances of classical and contemporary works are a riot of humorous anecdotes and off-the-cuff wit alongside dazzling musicianship. With his debut "The Mandolin Album" in 1990 he embarked on a series of recordings to realise his longstanding intention to give the mandolin a uniquely British voice. - John Duffey
John Duffey (March 4, 1934 - December 10, 1996) was a Washington DC-based bluegrass music innovator and musician. Duffey founded two of the most influential groups in bluegrass, The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. His tastes and sources were eclectic, often raiding folk song books and Protestant hymnals for material. He embraced the music of Bob Dylan and his style of playing was rock and jazz-inflected. The son of a singer at the Metropolitan Opera, … - Bobby Osborne
Bobby Osborne is a bluegrass musician known for his mandolin playing and high lead vocals. Born December 7, 1931 in Leslie County, Kentucky, Bobby Osborne is known primarily for his collaborations with his brother Sonny Osborne in their band, the Osborne Brothers. He was a pioneer in conceiving the now-popular "high lead" vocal trio concept. He has released numerous recordings since the 1950s. Most notably, the Osborne Brothers recordings of "Rocky Top", … - U. Srinivas
U. Srinivas (also spelled U. Shrinivas; born February 28,1969 in Palakol, in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) is a musician in the Carnatic musical tradition of southern India. He came to prominence not only for his playing but for his choice of instrument: an electric mandolin (the acoustic instrument is incapable of sustaining notes or producing the "slides" between notes necessary for Indian music). - Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck (born 6 December, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe of the alternative rock band R.E.M. - Jack White
Jack White (occasionally Jack III White or Jack White III), born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer. He started as a part-time musician working with various underground bands in Detroit, while working by day as an upholsterer. He is best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes. - Nash The Slash
Nash the Slash is a Canadian progressive rock, classical, and alternative musician. Though a multi-instrumentalist, he is known primarily for playing electric violin and mandolin, as well as harmonica, keyboards, glockenspiel, and other instruments. He was a member of the band FM in the 1970s, before launching a solo career in 1978, producing an audiovisual collaboration with artist Robert Vanderhorst which continues to this day. - Martie Maguire
Martie Maguire (born October 12, 1969) is an American country music songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning all-female country music band the Dixie Chicks. - Tim Ware
Musician/Composer Tim Ware came to prominence with the release, in 1980, of The Tim Ware Group on Kaleidoscope Records. The Tim Ware Group, working with a number of other talented San Francisco Bay Area musicians, helped define the emerging genre of New Acoustic Music. The band featured Tim, who also composed all the music, on mandolin and guitar, Bob Alekno on guitar and mandolin, John Tenney on violin, … - Willie P. Bennett
Willie P. Bennett is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter. Bennett was part of the 1970s folk music scene in Canada, alongside figures such as Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers and David Wiffen. His early albums were produced by David Essig; the recording engineer for his 1977 album "Hobo's Taunt" was Daniel Lanois. While commonly regarded as a major talent, Bennett did not become as famous as his contemporaries until 1996, when Stephen Fearing, … - Deana Carter
Deana Kay Carter (born January 4, 1966 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA) is an American singer-songwriter who records country music. She is amongst numerous artists known for performing barefoot. - Karen Mal
Karen Mal (born 1967 in Bristol, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas. She is best known for her strikingly open, child-like voice and her poetic and somewhat didactic songwriting. She is also known in the industry as a first-call session singer with a gift for harmony. Trained in theater and voice at Long Island University, … - Gilberto Silva
Gilberto Aparecido da Silva, commonly known as Gilberto Silva, is a Brazilian football (soccer) player. He has played most of his club football for the English club Arsenal, as a defensive midfielder. Gilberto was raised in a poor family and as a child he balanced playing football with various labour jobs. He began his football career in 1997 with América Mineiro, where good form earned him a move to Atlético Mineiro in 2000. - David Immerglück
David Immerglück is a multi-instrumentalist who is probably best known as a guitar player for adult alternative band Counting Crows and alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven. He also is a member of Monks of Doom, a side project of Camper Van Beethoven. He has also performed with a wide range of other artists, including John Hiatt, Chantal Kreviazuk, Elan Sara Defan, and Sordid Humor. - Arto Järvelä
Arto Järvelä is a Finnish fiddler and composer. Because of the many groups and projects he is involved in, he has been called "the busiest man in Finnish folk music". He is primarily a violinist, but among other instruments of his are nyckelharpa, mandolin and kantele. Arto Järvelä is the fourth generation of the wellknown Järvelä fiddler family, whose musical roots belong in the rural area close to the small town Kaustinen. - Max Johnston
Max Johnston is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work on fiddle, Dobro, banjo, and mandolin with the bands Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and more recently, The Gourds. Johnston is the younger brother of singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked and has supported her in concert tours as well. - Arthur Kylander
Arthur Arkadius Kylander (February 16, 1892-1968) was Finnish-American folk musician, singer, song-writer, mandolinist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. Born in Lieto, Finland, Kylander moved to the United States at the age of 22 in 1914, where he became a migrant worker as a carpenter and in the logging industry. In 1925 he met his wife Julia Varila, a pianist and accordianist, and the two began performing together and touring. - Stian Carstensen
Stian Carstensen (born in 1971) at Eidsvoll) is a multi-instrument musical virtuoso. He started as an accordion player at the age of 9. He first learned from his father, and later from a classical player which he attended for 4 years. During this time he played in Norwegian tv, radio, festivals etc. He also toured in America, playing classical music. At the same time he was also into swing jazz, and his father who also played bass, played standard tunes with him. - Julian Koster
Julian Koster is a member of the Elephant 6 Collective. He is the leader of American underground band The Music Tapes, and a former member of seminal indie legends Neutral Milk Hotel. He is also believed to have been a founder of the highly secretive Major Organ and the Adding Machine. Koster joined the The Olivia Tremor Control upon their 2005 reformation for a few select shows and appeared on many releases related to the Elephant 6 Collective. - Clifton Hyde
Clifton Hyde (b. November 27th, 1976) is a Hattiesburg, Mississippi born guitarist/composer/multi-instrumentalist currently living and working in New York City. As a sideman he is often seen playing Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Resonator Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Slide Guitar, Mandolin, Lap Steel, Piano, Organ, Ukulele, C melody saxophone, Electric & Double Basses. Covering styles as diverse as Mississippi Delta Blues, Avant Garde, Metal, Country, Rock, Modern Classical, … - Pierre Marchand
Pierre Marchand (born 1958 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian musician and record producer. He is probably best known for his work with Sarah McLachlan, having produced all of her albums since "Solace" (1991). He has also worked with many other singer-songwriters, including Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, Ron Sexsmith, Leigh Nash, Stevie Nicks, Daniel Lanois, The Devlins, Greg Keelor, Patty Larkin and Lhasa de Sela. - Michael Detemple
Michael DeTemple (born 1948) is an American musician and luthier known for his handmade solid-body guitars. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DeTemple began repairing and maintaining a wide range of stringed instruments at the age of thirteen. Early on, he became acquainted with renowned guitarist Ernie Ball, who retained his services by paying with old guitars. - Clarence "gatemouth" Brown
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18 1924 - September 10, 2005) was a Louisiana and Tex-Mex American blues musician. He was a highly acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an impressive array of instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. During his career, Brown recorded 30 records. He won a Grammy Award for Traditional Blues in 1983 for his album, "Alright Again!" - Séamus Egan
Seamus Egan (born July 1, 1969) is an Irish-American musician.
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