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| Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, with Phil Zimmerman, 1980 |
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In 1965, I made the pilgrimage to Cantrell's Horse Farm in Fincastle, VA, to attend the very first multi-day Bluegrass festival, Carlton Haney's Roanoke Bluegrass festival. I brought a camera and a banjo with me, but most of the time I was helping Carlton and Ralph Rinzler document the event on Ralph's Nagra tape recorder.
I wrote a short piece for a regional Bluegrass club newsletter. Read it here, with pictures of me with friends, and me with Doc Watson at Fincastle.... |
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Since that time, I've been attending festivals and concerts with an assortment of cameras and instruments, always torn between pickin' and picturin'. By the mid-70's, I was playing in one or more bands on a regular basis, and festival photography had to take a back seat. The Bluegrasstime collection represents a small sample of the best photos I made during that ten year period. Many of the photos you'll see on this site have been published in Bluegrass Unlimited, Bluegrass Now, Smithsonian/Folkways, and in liner notes to well-known recording projects. Bluegrasstime is an effort to make these pictures available to writers, publishers, collectors, and fans of Bluegrass music. |
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