On Facebook, a niche mandolin community was established in 2013. The community has now grown to over 6,000 members who honor the music of Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music, and encourage each other to keep his unique mandolin style alive. I found this community, the Monroe Mandolin Appreciation Society, early in the pandemic. I […]

Earlier this summer, I was invited to perform at a summer camp near my home in Tennessee. Camp Caverns, a brainchild of the iconic bluegrass venue, The Caverns, hosted its first summer camps this year. You may recognize the venue from the former PBS musical series, Bluegrass Underground. The camp director, Jennifer Sachs-Mayo, was looking for a Tennessee-based youth […]

What an honor it was to fill-in for my hero, mentor, and friend,  Christopher Henry, in the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band at the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Convention! When I first started learning mandolin online from Christopher in 2020, during the height of the shutdown, I could have never dreamed of this experience. Only two short years ago, […]