Current Issue
Chris Pandolfi and the Evolving Nature of Bluegrass
“I discovered bluegrass because of the banjo,” says banjo-picker Chris Pandolfi from the Grammy-Award winning Infamous Stringdusters. “I got into playing the banjo because of Béla Fleck. I was a Flecktone fan and really inspired by the music. That is what led me to buy my first banjo and of course everything points back to… Read the full article
The Artists
Mike Munford and the Soulful Machine
“I had no natural inclination towards music, beyond being drawn to the instrument through this one song that brought me in,” explains banjo picker Mike Munford, the 2013 IBMA “Banjo Player of the Year,” about his discovery of the instrument that would change his life. That one song was the Flatt & Scruggs’ classic, “Foggy… Read the full article
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From The Archives
The Fiddle Music of Art Galbraith: An Ozark Family Legacy Passed Down Four Generations
Photos by Virginia Curtiss Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1984, Volume 18, Number 7 Seventy-four-year-old Arthur Galbraith, of Springfield, Missouri, accurately represents the essence of old-time fiddle music popular in the Ozarks over 100 years ago. Art plays many of the same tunes that his Uncle Tobe Galbraith did, in the same lilting, traditional… Read the full article
