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Name: Neil Rosenberg
Group: Crooked Stovepipe
Date: Sunday March 22nd, 2009
Time: 8:30pm EDT
Website: www.crookedstovepipe.com
Interviewer: Terry Poirier
Description:
Neil V. Rosenberg was born in Washington State in 1939. In 1951 his family moved to Berkeley, California. In 1961 he graduated from Oberlin College (Ohio) and began graduate work in Folklore at Indiana University in Bloomington. During this time he worked at Bill Monroe's Brown County Jamboree in Bean Blossom playing in the house band and, for one season, as the Jamboree's manager.
In 1968, he moved to his present home--St. John's, Newfoundland. After teaching in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, he retired in 2004 and was named Professor Emeritus in 2005. He has published extensively on Canadian and American folk music topics. His books include Bluegrass: A History, Bluegrass Odyssey (with Carl Fleischhauer), and The Music of Bill Monroe (with Charles Wolfe). He has written notes to over forty albums, and in 1997 won a Grammy for his contribution to the album notes of the Smithsonian/Folkways "Anthology of American Folk Music."
In 1986 he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA). In 2006 he was elected as Member at Large to the Board of the IBMA. He is a 2007 graduate of the IBMA's Leadership Bluegrass course.
He has been a musician most of his life. He's proud to have been a recipient of Blue Grass Boys belt buckle #120 in recognition of his work with Bill Monroe during the 1960s. Today he performs with the bluegrass band Crooked Stovepipe, jams regularly with the spontaneous collaborative improvisation group The Black Auks, and plays old-time music from Newfoundland and beyond with his wife Terri. |
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