Episode#35 – Greg Cahill

 posted by Brance on 06.30.06 @ 7:05 am
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The GrassCastThis week we start a roughly month long focus on issues relating to bluegrass education, and bringing bluegrass music to young people in the schools. We start with Greg Cahill, who in addition to his work as banjo picker with Special Consensus, has been credited with helping launch IBMA’s official Bluegrass In The Schools program. Greg discusses what he has been up to with the band, his recent Huber Banjos endorsement, and how he got started making bluegrass presentations to school children.

This GrassCast is 13 minutes in length and the file download size is 13 MB.

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