MOBS Manitoba Old Tyme and Bluegrass Society

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Tonight is the Mandolin workshop with Tristan Scroggins. I hope you're attending!

Sunday morning gospel time. Junior Sisk was born this week on November 6, 1964. Harry "Junior" Sisk is a guitarist and vocalist in the bluegrass tradition, best known for his work with his band Rambler's Choice. He cites the hard-driving bluegrass of the Stanley Brothers as a major influence on his approach to bluegrass music. Sisk was born in Arlington, but was raised in Ferrum, Virginia. His early interest in music was sparked by his father Harry Sisk Sr., who wrote songs ...and played guitar, and his mother who sang. When Sisk was 14, his parents gifted him with an upright bass. Sisk began performing in local bands at age 16, first playing bass but eventually switching to guitar. He also played in his family's band Dreamin' Creek with his father and cousins. In 2012, Sisk won the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award for Song of the Year for "A Far Cry from Lester and Earl," and he also won Album of the Year for The Heart of a Song. In 2013, he won the IBMA award for Male Vocalist of the Year, and in 2016, he won the award for Recorded Event of the Year for The song "Longneck Blues" (with Ronnie Bowman). In 2013, Ramblers Choice won the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) Bluegrass Band of the Year award. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8XyJ-o_gU

Sunday morning gospel time. Born this week on October 29, 1905 is Albert Brumley. Albert Edward Brumley Sr. was one of the most successful American gospel song composers of the twentieth century, penning such standards as I’ll Fly Away, I’ll Meet You in the Morning, If We Never Meet Again, Turn Your Radio On, and many others. Between 1926 and 1931, he studied, lived, and worked at the Hartford Music Company in Hartford (Sebastian County) under the tutelage of its fou...Continue reading

Have you checked out the Blueberry Bluegrass virtual 20 workshops in 20 weeks yet? Flatpicking genius Kenny Smith is up first with a guitar workshop on November... 5. Check it out at https://blueberrybluegrass.com/20-in-20 It's all free if you have a participating music club membership or a minimum $15 donation (and if you don't have a membership, you can get one on the Blueberry website, all money goes to the club you choose). Lots of really cool instructors and topics and you get them all FREE! If you play an instrument, sing, write songs, you need to check this out! And if your club (any club, society, association, world wide!) isn't on the list, get them to contact Blueberry and get them involved! It's good for them and their members! We want to keep all of our clubs alive and with pandemic restrictions everywhere, they all have a hard time keeping members. When this pandemic is over, will they still be there for us? I'll be hosting each workshop every Thursday and I'd love to see a huge turnout every week. What have you got to lose when there's so much you can gain! See you next Thursday! Blueberry Bluegrass Festival Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Tyme Music Festival Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society MOBS Manitoba Old Tyme and Bluegrass Society Victoria Bluegrass Association. Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival Pineridge Bluegrass Folklore Society Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Association Downeast Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Society South Shore Bluegrass Music Association Oregon Bluegrass Association Idaho Bluegrass Association Washington Bluegrass Association California Bluegrass Association North Carolina Bluegrass Association DC Bluegrass Union The James River Bluegrass Association Buffalobluegrass.com Missouri Area Bluegrass Committee Greater Ozarks Bluegrass Society See more

Sunday morning gospel time. Eric Gibson of the Gibson brothers was born this week on October 23, 1970. As half of the Gibson Brothers duo, Eric Gibson plays banjo, and is slightly less than a year older than Leigh, on guitar, which makes them seem almost like twins, not so much because of family similarity, but because they have similar senses of humor, they enjoy the same kinds of music, and they end up hanging out together on the road and jamming with each other, the band,... and other musicians. It’s hard to think of another brother act that gets along so well. Perhaps, as Leigh jokes, It’s because we haven’t made enough money to fight over. While a lot of folks think they live (or lived) in Nashville, they’ve been able to stay in the region where they grew upon a dairy farm in upstate New York. They are both strong family people and have stayed close to their roots and relatives. Eric lives in Brainardsville, N.Y., with his wife Corina and two sons, Kelley (13) and Kieran (10). Since 1998, Leigh has lived in Scotia, N.Y., near Albany, with his wife Alison and their three kids, Jack (5), Annie (3), and Joe (2). According to Leigh, It’s the most important job I have, to make them happy. Looking back on their first album (of nine), Underneath A Harvest Moon (recorded in 1994 on their own label, now out-of-print) and their three albums for Hay Holler Records, you can see two fresh-faced kids in their twenties, excited about music and following their dream. But, while the album covers on their four subsequent chart-topping albums on Sugar Hill are more professional and hint at artists becoming more complex and eclectic, Eric and Leigh are still excited by music and are still following their dream. Leigh says, I’ve never really considered getting out of music. Thank God we’re able to raise and maintain families and still do this. Their upbringing took place in the rolling hills and glacier-dug bottomland of upstate New York. They grew up waking early to farm chores, but I can imagine they played a few pranks on each other back then. Their work ethic still shows in their approach to the music business. They get it done, but they have fun doing it. And, they’ve established themselves as a top-tier act that appeals to hard-core bluegrass fans as well as to a broad audience who like their brother-duo sound and original songs. Songwriting is something they’ve done from early on in their career. Both Leigh and Eric admire the songwriting scope of bands such as Blue Highway, the Steel Drivers, and Claire Lynch, and they’re in the same categoryconsistently writing and recording high-quality material. It’s no wonder they top the charts. They move people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SHQfoPFBiY