Tag Archives: Bill Monroe

Interview with Glen Duncan

Posted on July 23, 2024 by Peter Feldmann

“But it changed my life forever;  then, from that time forward, I was a fiddle player.  It just changed the whole thing.  Changed the whole thing.  I’m a fiddle player today because of that.” Continue reading →

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The Folk Music Revival (Monterey, CA 1963)

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Peter Feldmann

“I always wanted to play different from anybody else . . . and it turned out to be bluegrass music.”
-Bill Monroe,
Monterey California, May 18, 1963 Continue reading →

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The Origins of Bluegrass Music

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

I think Bill Monroe might have hired Stringbean more as a comedian to break the ice than for his banjo picking. Either that or because he was a good shortstop! Many early bluegrass bands had at least one member who did the rube comic act . . . a relic from minstrel and medicine show times. Continue reading →

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The Sixties in Folk Music / 9. Peter Feldmann

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

A Swiss Hillbilly Discovers America Peter Feldmann My family emigrated from Switzerland shortly after World War II. I recall landing at Burbank Airport in the middle of August (LAX had not yet been built.) The temperature was an even 100 … Continue reading →

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Arnold Shultz: Black fiddling and bluegrass music

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Peter Feldmann

The first time I met Bill Monroe (regarded as the “Father of Bluegrass Music”) in May of 1963, he mentioned some of the people that influenced the development of the musical style that was later to be named after his … Continue reading →

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