Songs and Tab

Pandora	This site is a compilation of songs. The user chooses an artist, Earl Scruggs, for example and the site plays song after song of the same genre though not necessarily the same artist. Using this site is a good way to be introduced to blue grass artists and songs that the user might not know about.
Mandolin Cafe	Higly recommended site -- the name is self explanatory.
Bluegrass Lyrics	A great site to get documented bluegrass lyrics by artist, genre, and all songs.
Banjo Newsletter	MP3's available on this site as well as tab, archives, and most things of interest to banjo players.
Mandolin Information	All you ever wanted to know and a little more about Mandolins here -- information and links.
The Idaho Project	A compilation of songs known to have orginated in Idaho. In 2007, Gary Eller held a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council to collect historically-based songs of the Snake and Salmon River region. Songs about actual Idaho people, places and events provide a unique window into the region's rich heritage. To date, Gary has collected about 1000 songs related in some way to Idaho, of which about 100 predate 1910 and about 200 are historically rooted. These songs ranged widely and included somber event ballads, stage songs, hilarious parodies and operas. The early songs are being preserved in written and recorded forms that are accessible to present and future generations, and in public performances.

Bluegrass on the Internet

Bluegrass Country
Bluegrass Radio
World Wide Bluegrass

Luthiers

Ron Cole Mandolins

Builder of fine instruments including mandolins, mandolas
repair on most stringed instruments(208) 326-5224
1055 S. Adell Avenue
Filer, Idaho 83328
handcraftedmandolins.com
myspace.com/colemandolins

Williams Custom Banjos

Builder of the Kenny Ingram model banjo. Banjo player for Rhonda Vincent and the Rage
P.O. Box 123
White Bird, ID 83554
Telephone: 208-839-2814
Email: wanab@starband.net

Owyhee Mountain Fiddle Shop

Ken Pollard
Owyhee Mountain Fiddle Shop
www.owyheemountainfiddle.com
Phone: (208) 466-3633

Teachers

Ken Pollard

Fiddle Lessons and clawhammer banjo taught by Ken Pollard, (208) 466-3633

P.Gary Eller

Banjo Lessons taught by Gary Eller

Phone:(208) 442-8844
Email: pgaryeller@aol.com

Jason Homey

Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar

I have been playing acoustic stringed instruments since 1988. I am a two-time first place winner of the Western Canadian Bluegrass Banjo Championships and a long-term member of the Bluegrass/Celtic/Rock-band 'The Clumsy Lovers', with whom I play banjo, mandolin and guitar. In addition to teaching private lessons, and working as a studio musician/arranger/producer, and operating a mobile recording studio, I have experience teaching at Bluegrass Workshops, including having taught the Advanced Banjo class at BCBW. I teach bluegrass mandolin (beginning and intermediate levels); bluegrass and old-time country rhythm guitar and flatpicking (beginning and intermediate levels); and 5-string banjo (all levels). Besides playing and teaching Scruggs-Style and Clawhammer (including 'Melodic' Clawhammer), I also play and teach a combination of 'Single-String' and 'Melodic' ('Keith') style that I use for arranging Irish fiddle tunes, Classical pieces, and other types of material, for banjo. In teaching private lessons, I follow no standardized program. Rather, I make it a point to tailor the lessons in accordance with the interests, aptitudes, learning style, and goals of the individual student. My phone number is: 208 585 1637. Jason

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