I was just given some more photos of my friends, the Arm Bros, which I have added to my Arm Bros web pages.
They came to me today from their drummer, Fred Gumaer, via their banjo player, Jerry Oland, and are from ca. 1973-74.
See the last part of this page for them: http://frobbi.org/audio/armbros/morephotos/index.html

The Arm Bros were a bluegrass and country/western band from Poughkeepsie, NY, in the 1970s.

Listen to their music and see lots more photos at the complete site http://frobbi.org/audio/armbros/

The photos are not mine and only some of the recordings are mine.

Allen Brothers

Whoever gave me this CD a while ago, please accept my apologies for not remembering. Please let me know.

Meanwhile, here it is: http://frobbi.org/audio/AllenBros1973/

Thanks to Jerry Oland, Dennis Satterlee, and Greg Allen for help with some song names and the complete band list.

I have one of my own recordings, from Berkshire 1979: http://frobbi.org/audio/allenbros.html
 

    Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival posted this on Facebook

Tonight we're sending out get well wishes to James King (hospitalized
since Sunday with gall bladder issues and kidney stones). We wish him a
very speedy recovery. Here he is in a workshop with the Gibson Bros at
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival's Creekside Stage last year.
Get well soon, James!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmOLp4AD7MI

Here's a very cool jam I was lucky to capture.
Ron Cody (banjo), Rushad Eggleston (cello), Mark Mazengarb ? (guitar), Wendy Cody (bass)

Here's Rushad at Grey Fox's sister festival.
It's the second installment of this fun, crazy and creative duo.
They had only met minutes before this set!

I've just added Tom Isenhour's Fincastle 1966 photos to my collection.
Tom's photo of me and Bill Monroe has been on my pages for many years;
but I just rediscovered the rest of his images and made them available,
linking both series together.

Tom's: http://frobbi.org/slides/fincastle/isenhour/index.html
(Note some of Tom's interesting captions.)

Mine: http://frobbi.org/slides/fincastle/index.html

My thanks to Tom for providing me with the original negatives a long time
ago and again this week so I could rescan them with higher quality.

Tom is the brother of my late bluegrass mentor, Bob Isenhour. I met both of
them ca. 1965 while at Clemson University. You can see all of us in the
group photo on the first page of my series. 
 

The Gibson Brothers gave the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association another one of their usual warm, fun, fantastic, memorable shows to help us celebrate our 20th Anniversary.
 

New: The Tom King Collection

I'm thrilled (again) to be able to share some history with you. This time its
thanks to Tom King, whose bluegrass stars promo for his WBLU radio show,
recorded at Roanoke/Fincastle 1965, has been gracing my Picking Page for several years.

When Tom called me a couple weeks ago saying he and his wife Judy would be up from
Virginia and would like to stop by up here in Yankee Land to take us to dinner, I
accepted.

We had a great time at a nice restaurant overlooking the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie.

He helped dust off my brain by reminding me that in 2009 he sent me his cassettes
copied from some of his original Roanoke/Fincastle 1965 reel tapes. I made CDs for him
and digitized them for myselg. I had to search and search to finally find my
MP3 files, and have now made them available in the new "Tom King Collection" at

http://frobbi.org/tomkingcollection.html

Be sure to read Tom's story about the tapes and where some more of those recordings
are available (a link on the web page is included).

Fred 

"When it rains, it pours." The hits just keep on comin'!" ETC.

Doc Hamilton must've been inspired with Tom King's latest contributions,
since he just sent me an historic gem to add to The Doc Hamilton Collection...
   
   Flatt & Scruggs' last week of Martha White Shows on WSM!
   
   

Here's a wonderful local band, performing in the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association's Showcase Series. 

HVBA President David Angell described them as "intergenerational". 

The band is headed by guitarist/mandolinist Korey Brodsky, one of the 2013 IBMA Youth Allstars, 
and includes fiddler Sofia Chiarandini, who just won the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Scholarship 
for Boston's Berklee College of Music's Summer Program with Mark O'Connor. Korey and Sofia are 
bookended by bassist Rick Brodsky and multi-instrumentalist Dick Neal.

I'm happy to know and present my friends!

                                                               Photo by Joan Harrison

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Originally posted by robbif

Here's a wonderful local band, performing in the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association's Showcase Series. 

HVBA President David Angell described them as "intergenerational". 

The band is headed by guitarist/mandolinist Korey Brodsky, one of the 2013 IBMA Youth Allstars, 
and includes fiddler Sofia Chiarandini, who just won the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Scholarship 
for Boston's Berklee College of Music's Summer Program with Mark O'Connor. Korey and Sofia are 
bookended by bassist Rick Brodsky and multi-instrumentalist Dick Neal.

I'm happy to know and present my friends!

                                                               Photo by Joan Harrison

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I liked that.Thanks for recording and posting.

The New Kentucky Colonels Revival

What a great time I had last Friday night to see The New Kentucky Colonels Revival!
They were Roland White-mandolin/vocals, Kentaro Hiratsuka-guitar/fiddle/vocals,
Steve Lutke-banjo/vocals, Ron Greenstein-bass and guest Eric Weissberg-banjo.

It was hosted by Youko Yamamato, owner of the Gomen Kudasai Restaurant in New Paltz, NY

It was also a very pleasant surprise to see Bill Keith and Eric Weissberg.

I wasn't planning to shoot any video, but when I tried to take a snapshot of the band, my little point-and-shoot's battery died.
So I pulled out my even smaller GoPro.

Here are the photos: http://frobbi.org/slides/newkycolsrevival/

Here are the videos. (Sorry for the quality and no closeups - the GoPro can't zoom.)

Here's another treasure from my UK friend, Ivor Trueman.

Jim & Jesse & the Virginia Boys, Oak Leaf Park, Luray, VA, July 4, 1961

http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Jim&Jesse-July4-1961/index.html

I believe it's the only recording of Jim and Jesse I have with the great Allen Shelton on banjo.

By the way, you must check out the complete Ivor Trueman Collection.
It contains over 2,000 MP3s!!!!!

http://frobbi.org/truemancollection.html

Enjoy!
Fred

Flatt & Scruggs, Kyoto, Japan, 1968

If I were more organized I'd have realized Ivor Trueman had given me this set a long time ago!

But here it is now: http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Flatt-Scruggs-Kyoto1968/index.html

Here's my 1st 2014 Grey Fox video. I wanted to publish at least one before heading to Rhythm & Roots next week.

Here's a trifecta from Grey Fox's Host Band:

"I've Lived a Lot in My Time", "The Girl Behind the Bar", "Shenandoah Breakdown"

They'll also be performing for the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association in Poughkeepsie, NY, on October 24...

Click here for more info and tickets.

One of my alltime favorite bands kicks off their set...

Congratulations to Bill Keith on his IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award.

And thanks to Alan Munde for giving the presentation.

I'm proud to say I consider them both good friends.

Here's a delightful winner...

 

I just talked to longtime friend Byron Berline, and he gave me permission to
post this recording he gave me. Byron's parents were even in the audience!

I'm proud to be able to make this classic recording available! 

Bill Monroe, Byron Berline, Roland White et al - Grand Ole Opry

​Let me know who's on banjo.

Re: Bill Monroe, Byron Berline, Roland White et al - Grand Ole Opry

From Byron Berline: James Monroe on bass, Vic Jordan I believe was with us on banjo.
Lamar Grier I think left around June or early July. I think this was around
July or Aug of 1967.

 I've been updating some of my slide shows so they will play on mobile devices.
Most phones and tablets do not support Adobe Flash on which some of the shows were based.

Here are the updated shows sofar...

Louisiana Bluegrass 1969
Country Gentlemen Festival 1972
New Kentucky Colonels Revival 2014

Please be patient as I continue to update as time permits.

Here are all my shows: http://frobbi.org/slideshows.html

Here are two more updated slide shows...

Martin Guitar Factory Trips 2007:  http://frobbi.org/slides/martin

...and one that is off topic, but I couldnt resist throwing it in... 

Distillery and Brewery in Roscoe, NY (drool!): http://frobbi.org/slides/roscoe-distillery-brewery

Here are some young boys with great potential...

More slide shows converted for phones and tablets...

Austin City Limits 1979
Union Grove Fiddlers Convention 1968
Arm Bros Photos from 1970s
Flatt & Scruggs @ Miami Pop Festival 1968