Dear music friends,
We are back! After a bit of a hiatus to move into a new job and into a
new house that we call the Abbey, we are ready to start inviting our
friends once again to join us as we present some fantastic music from
world class musicians in a comfortable and intimate setting. We look
forward to seeing you soon!
We are starting our house party series with a roar - the legendary
mandolin master, Mike Compton. He will be doing a rare solo appearance
for us on Tuesday night, the day after Labor Day, at 7:30pm. We suggest
a donation of $20, all of which goes to Mike. We know weeknights are a
challenge, but I promise it will be worth the effort.
The Abbey is in Melford, near Bowie and the intersection of US Rt. 50
and US Rts. 3 and 301 (south of Crofton, west of Annapolis). It's about
15 minutes south of our old house in Crownsville. When you reserve your
spot, I'll send you directions. We hope to have a great gathering to
hear Mike and have a chance to visit with a world-class musician.
As always, no response is necessary unless you plan on attending.
Details:
No Smoking - No Pets (ours prefer only human visitors)
Please RSVP by Sunday, September 4.
You can guarantee your seat by sending a check in advance.
Specifics provided with your reservation.
Phone 410-923-1009 or email Archie.
Check out the new web site at
www.archiewarnock.net/concerts.
Here's a little about Mike.
Mandolin Magazine calls him a player with "a worldwide reputation as one
of the modern masters of bluegrass mandolin...one of the most
recognizable and respected mandolin voices anywhere". He's Mike
Compton--Grammy and IBMA award-winning recording artist; solo, duo and
band performer; and as passionate a teacher and advocate for the
mandolin as you're ever likely to find. The New York Times calls
Compton, "a new bluegrass instrumental hero."
Born in Meridian, Mississippi (hometown to the legendary Jimmie Rodgers)
in 1956, Mike grew up hearing old-time country music, and took up the
mandolin as a teenager. Drawn to the powerful mix of old-time fiddle
stylings, blues influences and pure creativity embodied in Monroe's
playing, he moved to Nashville in 1977 and quickly found work with
veteran banjoist and former Monroe sideman Hubert Davis. Compton made
his first recordings with Davis, but by the middle of the 1980's, he was
recruited by Pat Enright and Alan O'Bryant to help found the Nashville
Bluegrass Band, and the group quickly became one of the most prominent
and admired in bluegrass. In four years of wide-ranging tours that
covered the globe, the quintet recorded an equal number of acclaimed
albums before a bus accident prompted Mike to reconsider his career and
leave the NBB for a year of quiet work and introspection in New York's
Catskill Mountains.
Returning to Nashville, Compton soon joined the legendary John Hartford,
recording a half-dozen albums with the Hartford String Band and touring
extensively until Hartford's death in 2001. At the same time, he began
to develop collaborative efforts in recording, performing, and teaching
with other masters such as guitarist David Grier, with whom he has
toured and recorded the IBMA Album Of The Year-nominated Climbing The
Walls; renowned mandolinists David Grisman and Mike Marshall, at whose
invitation he participates in the Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz,
California; producer T-Bone Burnette, for whom he not only performed as
a Soggy Bottom Boy on 2001's Grammy Album Of the Year, O Brother, Where
Art Thou?, but on the following Grammy-winning Down From The Mountain
soundtrack and tours, and on the cold Mountain soundtrack and tours;
and, most recently, with up-and-coming mandolinist David Long, with whom
he recorded Stomp, nominated for the IBMA's Recorded Event Of The Year
in 2006. Adding to his full schedule, Mike was invited to rejoin the
Nashville Bluegrass Band in 2000, where No Depression magazine noted in
a 2004 review that "his contributions notably enhance one of the band's
greatest strengths: its uniquely precise take on the blues."
Honored in 2002 with a special resolution by the Mississippi State
Senate for his accomplishments, Mike Compton is in demand today at every
level, from solo tours, treasured performances with the Nashville
Bluegrass Band, appearances with Grier, and other duet partners, to
instructional settings like the International Bluegrass Music Museum's
wildly successful Monroe Mandolin Camp, to studio recordings with
bluegrass legends such as Ralph Stanley and country stars like Faith
Hill. In the end, there's no better way to say it than in the words of
Mandolin Magazine--Mike Compton, is, simply put, "a certified mandolin
icon."
Wearing his signature pressed blue overalls and rocking and weaving with
fluid body motion, Compton stuns not by tricks or artifice, but through
his singing, his ability to engage a crowd, and through decades of
honing his technique into the unique, one-of-a-kind Compton signature
mandolin sound. With his Gilchrist mandolin, this is a perfect match of
a musician and his instrument. As a recent April, 2013 reviewer wrote in
Bluegrass Today, "go see Mike Compton's solo show and prepare to be
gobsmacked. There are powerful people in every walk of life. Mike
Compton is the General George Patton of the mandolin. Breathtaking is
the only word."
--
Archie
-- Archie Warnock
warnock@awcubed.com
-- A/WWW Enterprises
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-- As a matter of fact, I _do_ speak for my employer.
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