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Following on the success of their 12-week class on guitar improvisation last year, Chris Henry and David McLaughlin have remade the Zoom videos into a downloadable course that covers the depth and breadth of bluegrass guitar. Calling it their Traditional Bluegrass Guitar Improvising Course, the download version is expanded substantially from the Zoom sessions, with [...]
Chris Henry, noted Bill Monroe mandolin stylist, has announced a new way to learn how to play like Big Mon. He has launched a Monroe Style Improvising course for players who are already familiar with the basics of this building block of the bluegrass style. Henry is part of the second generation of The Murphy [...]
Here's another batch of photos Frank Baker took over this past weekend at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. More yet to come.
Long known for their successful banjo instructional efforts, The Murphy Method has announced their first ever mandolin camp this year, set to run September 23-25 in Winchester, VA. The company is the brainchild of Murphy Henry, a banjo teacher who started producing audio tapes some years ago to help teach her students memorize new solos [...]
The weekend of October 10th saw the first Newell Lodge bluegrass festival promoted by Ernie and Debi Evans. They are now working with Harvin Carter and his family to promote festivals on this site in Folkston, GA. This first effort was very successful with the campground sold out in advance of the festival. The weather was [...]
Chris Henry has recently been extremely busy satisfying the demands of his many roles; freelance musician, engineer, producer, teacher and composer. Somehow he was able to focus on writing a number of songs to mark his grandmother’s 90th birthday. Sadly, Claryne "Renee" Henry passed away on March 10. She would have been 90 years old [...]
Chris Henry and the Hardcore Grass have released a music video for one of the songs to be included on their upcoming CD. But this one was shot live prior to the studio track being cut. As Chris tells us... "This is a song that I wrote last year and it’ll be featured on our [...]
When Ben Helson left Rhonda Vincent & The Rage last Fall, we noted that he would be serving as the as Bluegrass Director of the Bethel University Renaissance program in McKenzie, TN. Bethel is a small, private Christian school with a total enrollment of just over 5,000 students, with satellite campuses in Jackson, Clarksville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis and Paris. The school [...]
Having recorded a new solo project all by himself, and wanting to promote it with a performance music video, Chris Henry was faced with an interesting challenge. He couldn't do the typical band-out-in-field concept, since he had played all the instruments and sung all the vocals. That wouldn't make for much of a wide shot. So [...]
Chris Henry, Nashville multi-instrumentalist and man-about-town, has released a new solo project. Well, it's almost a solo project. He did play all the guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass, and drums, wrote and sang all the songs, and engineered and produced it all himself. But he had Jason Carter in to play some of the fiddle, had Sarah [...]
