Performance Date
Friday,
May 29
Evening
Concert - Kennedy Outdoor Theater
Tuesday,
May 26 - Thursday, May 28
Faculty
- 2009 Roots/Blues Guitar Workshop
Rich
DelGrosso's performances at clubs and festivals and
the airplay of his recordings have garnered him five
Blues Music Award nominations. His most recent are
for Best Instrumentalist-Other for his mandolin and Acoustic
Album of the Year for “Live From Bluesville,”
a recorded jam session at XM radio’s
“B.B.King’s Bluesville,”with Blues Music Award
nominees and winners Fiona Boyes and Mookie Brill.
This
writer/teacher/performer, is widely regarded as the
leading exponent of mandolin blues. According to
author/historian Mark Hoffman, DelGrosso is
"the greatest living blues mandoman, the best
since Yank (Rachell)." For over twenty years
DelGrosso has written articles for Blues
Revue, Living
Blues, Mandolin Magazine, Frets,
and Sing Out!
and he has published instruction books on mandolin
for Hal Leonard. He has presented workshops on
mandolin across the country, earning him a Keeping
the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation in
Memphis
.
For
more information on Rich, visit www.richdelgrosso.com
