It's named the Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival because the city has a rose festival running at the same time.
Top mandolin players come together and compete in the National Mandolin Championship in US. Walnut Valley Festival is the host.
Golf cart parade, Mt. Bluegrass Queen Contest, jamming and concerts. Arbuckle Mountain Bluegrass Festival is running September 12-19.
The UK festival is taking place September 2-5 at Kemble Airfield, near Cirencester.
Two major artifacts, Uncle Pen's fiddle and the famous headstock veneer, will be on display during the Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration.
MandoMorphosis: MandoMorphosis 2010
Tracks
- Crash (Connolly/Johnson/Schaffer/Sircely/Tiller)
- Matt’s Idea (Sircely)
- A Minor Squabble (Connolly)
- Impromptu Redux (Connolly/Johnson/Schaffer/Sircely/Tiller)
- Santa Morena (Jacob do Bandolim)
- CrimeDog (Schaffer)
- Zone 429 (Connolly/Johnson/Schaffer/Sircely/Tiller)
- Hamhock’s Razor (Johnson)
- Pete’s Wish (Sircely)
- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (Frederic Chopin)
- MandoMorphosis (Connolly/Johnson/Schaffer/Sircely)
- Out of the Furnace and Into the Fire (Tiller)
- Nero’s Fiddle (Johnson)
- Dos Somorgujos (Tiller/Sircely)
- Ghostown (Schaffer/Connolly/Johnson/Sircely)
- Ed (Sircely)
- Cascadia Raga (Schaffer/Connolly/Johnson/Sircely/Tiller)
Published by MandoMorphosis 2010
By: Reidar Falch
It opens with Crash, a 18 secs track called Crash filling the speakers with massive mando sound. From then on the mando sounds come in a more sorted order, sometimes effectively arranged, sometimes free flowing improvised.
Two tracks are well known classics with a fresh approach. The rest is original music by the members of MandoMorphosis. It's a cascade of musical styles and approaches yet with a common identity somewhere in there.
MandoMorphosis is a collaboration among seven mandolin players, with an overarching goal of exploring the potential of the instrument in a variety of different musical genres.
All are mandolinists. All but one play several instruments. None of the tracks feature all musicians. There are several constellations.
The members are: Matt Sircely, Orville Johnson, Michael Connolly, David Tiller, Pete Frostic, Adam Larrabee and Scott Schaffer. They all live around North America.
4. Impromptu Redux
9. Pete's Wish
10. Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2