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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

RoadHome

Sam Bush

Robin Bullock

David Grisman

Jim Richter & Will Kimble

Mike Compton

Scott Tichenor

Don Stiernberg

Roland White

Nashville Mandolin Ensemble

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers

John Reischman & the Jaybirds

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

 


A Victorian Christmas -
    Sentiments and Sounds of a Bygone Era

You'll treasure and enjoy giving this new holiday gift book from Lucinda Cockrell with music by Butch Baldassari, the result a combining of the sights and sounds of Christmas past.

With foil, embossing, and a rich, saturated four-color interior full of classic Victorian images, A Victorian Christmas is heart-warming holiday gift.

It's filled with artwork and inscriptions from postcards and Christmas cards, poems and prose from the early twentieth century. The accompanying CD add soft, beautiful Christmas songs performed by acclaimed mandolinist Butch Baladassari. The result is an experience of Christmas from a bygone era, a unique way to say "Merry Christmas" to a loved one - or to yourself!

Price: $15
(Shipping included in the US)



Check Mandolin Café for Butch Baldassari health updates and discussion groups.


Butch's Old Town CD gets rave review

Bill Graham, of the Kansas City Star, writes:
I was digging through CDs stacked in my bedroom the other night and looking for something good to listen to, something I wasn't burnt out on.

Up came Old Town, and yeah, I thought, this is sweet.

But you forget just how sweet, until those first notes of the title track "Old Town" burst out of Baldassari's mandolin.

Read the full review on Mandolin Café, and you can buy the CD here as a gift for yourself or another fan/mandolin lover.




SEE and HEAR
The Nashville Mandolin Ensemble
on Google Video

Four Tribute CDs produced by Butch Baldassari
Dawg Tales: The Acoustic Tribute to David Grisman Pickin' on the Alman Brothers Mandolin Tribute to Andrea Bocelli Open Road
Tribute to James Taylor


Two NME Live CDS available by download only!

Live Pops

Live Classical

Other Recent CD Releases

"The impact of these two projects just takes your breathe away…"
Read review by Al Shusterman, KCBL/Backroads Bluegrass, Sacramento,CA.


Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer

See and Hear it on
Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour

This new CD brings together mandolinist Butch Baldassari and dulcimer legend David Schnauffer in a collection of 14 duets showcasing traditional music of the Appalachian Mountains

Price: $15.00



Mandolin Hymns

Mandolin Hymns features Butch Baldassari - mandolin, mandola and octave mandolin in an instrumental program of 15 traditional gospel songs. Nashville session players Aubrey Haynie and Andrea Zonn-fiddle, Robert Bowlin-guitar, Stuart Duncan-banjo, along with Dennis Crouch and Mike Bub on bass bring a fresh string band sound to these classic melodies. Total Time: 55:31
Price: $15.00

 



 

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