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All roads lead to The Yinnar Pub The word is out. The stellar lineup of performers presented by the Strzelecki Stringbusters so far this year has cemented The Yinnar Pub’s reputation as one of Australia’s and certainly Victoria’s leading Bluegrass / Old Time venue. The boys have made a habit of attracting a variety of [...]
The Monroe-Style Mandolin All-Star Faculty Concert was recorded live at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, on 10th September, 2010. It featured camp director Mike Compton (Nashville Bluegrass Band, Elvis Costello & The Sugarcanes), associate director Dr. Richard Brown (The Reunion Band), Hall of Fame member Bobby Osborne (Bobby Osborne & The Rocky [...]
The Mike Compton Interviewed by David McCarty O Brother, Where Art Thou? was the movie that returned interest to traditional American music. Mike Compton was at the forefront of that music soundtrack with the immensely popular version of Man of Constant Sorrow. More recently he featured on British star Elvis Costello’s new acoustic CD, Secret, [...]
Rob Ickes & Mike Compton were in Cook County Minnesota, last year, on the North Shore of Lake Superior for the 19th Annual Bluegrass Master’s Weekend and performed on air for the local radio station. Rob has sent through a link to the radio interview. Here’s a half-hour interview Mike Compton and I did at [...]
Bill Graham is a mandolin player, guitarist and singer and former veteran reporter and columnist for The Kansas City Star. For those of you who can never have too much of Mike Compton, here’s a recent article from Bill Graham on the Mandolin Cafe. Bill considers what Monroe himself might have thought of the Compton, [...]
Mike Compton Private Mandolin Instruction The Mandolin Cafe reports that Mike Compton has announced he is accepting up to a maximum of 15 students to participate in individualized mandolin lessons to be held over the internet. Students interested in an opportunity to study with this music legend and acknowledged mandolin master should have an interest [...]
From the Mandolin Cafe Sam Bush was sitting in his tour bus, talking about the increasing role for mandolin playing from solos and background licks in modern country and folk-rock music, when he brought up a subject I’ve long wondered about. Many guitarists take up mandolin to bring something fresh to sessions and the stage, [...]
In June this year we referred readers to a feature on Mike Compton and Steve Gilchrist interviewed by ABC radio. That interview included a sound bite which at that stage (according to the website) had limited availability. The story has surfaced once again on ABC’s website for those who may have missed it or could [...]
Riding High in the wake of their National tour. Bluegrass Parkway members were fortunate in being able to tour with one of our true heroes, a man who has spend years mastering his craft, seeking out the source and refusing to tolerate mediocrity. The opportunity to tour with Mike Compton could, therefore be leapt upon [...]
Mike Compton : Famed mandolin player Mike Compton will perform a number of Australian concerts this year touring with West Australian Band, Bluegrass Parkway. Mike Compton was born was born in 1956 in Jimmie Rodger’s hometown of Meridian Mississippi. His great grandfather was a fiddler. Mike was exposed to old-time music at an early age [...]
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