
New Release!
Butch Baldassari
Tribute Album:
The Road
Home
John Carlini
Tim O'Brien
Steve Kaufman
Beppe Gambetta
& Carlo
Aonzo
Tom
Rozum
Keith
Little
Ron
Block
Tony
McManus |

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Sam
Bush
Robin Bullock
David Grisman
Jim
Richter & Will Kimble
Mike
Compton
Scott
Tichenor
Don
Stiernberg
Roland
White
Nashville
Mandolin Ensemble |
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Ricky
Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Chris
Jones & the Night Drivers
John
Reischman & the Jaybirds
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Details,
Samples
Some of the best names in acoustic music
combined to give us this great musical tribute
to mandolin master Buch Baldassari.
Butch
created
new interest in this age-old instrument
in a wide variety of musical genres.
He was an inspiration to people who loved his
music and who knew him as a friend. He performed and recorded
with many of the top names in bluegrass, Celtic,
and other genres.
He moved between bluegrass festivals and
symphony halls with ease and grace, earning
respect and admiration in these seemingly disparate
worlds. He was the driving force behind the Nashville
Mandolin Ensemble and was an adjunct professor
at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
(Continue
reading the bio..) (Read
interview in Mandozine)
No obituary can ever do justice to the life
of a person who has passed on, but you can read
more at:
The Tennessean
Mandolin
Café
Vanderbilt University
Bluegrass Journal
and just about any bluegrass or mandolin
discussion group on the Internet.
Contributions in Butch's name can be made
to:
Blair School of Music
2400 Blakemore Avenue
Nashville, TN 37209
Blakemore United Methodist Church
3601 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37205
Gilda's Club of Nashville
1707 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
There has also been a college fund set up in the name of Blake
Gordon Baldassari.
It resides at:
Morgan Stanley
attn:Jason Pharris
2525 West End Avenue
Suite 1220
Nashville, TN 37203
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