Podcast appearances and mentions of matt flinner

My guest on the podcast this week is Eric Skye, who joins me to celebrate the album 'Phillips, Grier & Flinner'.Released in 1999 on Compass Records, it marks the first collaboration between bassist Todd Phillips, guitarist David Grier, and mandolinist Matt Flinner and features three original tunes from each.We chat about how Eric first discovered the record and why it means so much to him, plus what's so special about these three musicians and this collection of tunes. We also chat about the album's sound and why listening is such an important part of making (and understanding) music.This was a fantastic conversation to get to have and it's always a pleasure talking to Eric.You can buy 'Phillips, Grier and Flinner' on CD or as a digital download in mp3,FLAC or WAV via the Compass Records websiteFor more info on Eric's music and production services, check out ericskye.comThe Chris Thile and David Grier bootleg we discuss in the episode is available via sugarmegs:Part 1Part 2  SetlistHappy picking,MattSend a message to Bluegrass Jam Along! (Don't forget to include your name so I know who you are!) Support the show===Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)- Sign up to get updates on new episodes - Free fiddle tune chord sheets- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews- Follow Bluegrass Jam Along for regular updates: Instagram Facebook - Review us on Apple Podcasts

The cover of Darrell Scott's latest album, Old Cane Back Rocker, immediately sets the tone for your listening experience. The inclusion of the names of the Darrell Scott String Band (Bryn Davies, Matt Flinner and Shad Cobb) lets you know right off the bat that this recording is a band effort. The photo on the album cover gives a visual of Scotts' family roots in rural Kentucky. His cousin Dwight Messer is standing in front of his former childhood home, now abandoned on the family land. The music reflects his family's story: some, like Dwight, stayed behind and some, like Darrell's father, Wayne Scott, moved up north to find work. Despite being raised in the north, Darrell's home has always felt like Kentucky and traditional music learned from there. These songs showcase those roots.In our conversation, Darrell digs into the darkness that can be heard in his music, even if it's not a sad song. He talks about his friend and frequent collaborator, Tim O'Brien, and how his performance and writing has allowed Scott to level up. Darrell also speaks to leaning into emotional songwriting and trusting his tears during the creative process. He shares the emotional account of rerecording his father's song This Weary Way and how he used to think Hank Williams had actually written it. Immediately after we finished our interview, lizzie texted me "what a cool eccentric intellectual dude." Couldn't have said it better myself. This episode honestly discovers the true essence of Darrell Scott—an artist whose music resonates with the soul, rooted in the traditions of Kentucky. Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknewsHelp produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week, mandolin virtuoso and educator Joe K. Walsh gives us a mini master class on the art of listening and improvising as we celebrate the release of his new album, 'If Not Now, Who?'  The project features Walsh with Matt Flinner (banjo), guitarist Grant Gordy, Ella Jordan (fiddle), John Mailander (fiddle), John Suntken (drums), and Karl Doty (bass). Walsh walks us through the process of recording the record, talks about what he's learned after years of teaching at Berklee, and gives us a rundown of his current mandolin lineup. The album is now available here: https://joewalsh.bandcamp.com/album/if-not-now-who Order the Fretboard Journal magazine here:  https://shop.fretboardjournal.com/collections/all/products/fretboard-journal-subscription-no-auto-renew Order 'An Instrument Maker's Guide to Insanity & Redemption' here: https://shop.fretboardjournal.com/collections/all/products/pre-order-an-instrument-makers-guide-to-insanity-and-redemption Register for our 2023 Fretboard Summit here:  https://fretboardsummit.org/ Our podcast is sponsored by Retrofret Vintage Guitars, Peghead Nation (use the promo code FRETBOARD and get your first month free or $20 off any annual subscription); Izotope (use the coupon code FRET10 to save 10% off their plug-ins); and Stringjoy Strings.

www.patreon.com/banjopodcast   For this Bonus episode, I have a quick chat about the upcoming Banjo Summit with Jake Schepps, an extraordinary banjo player in his own right, and the Director of the Banjo Summit! About Banjo Summit: 2-day online banjo workshop aimed at teaching accessible techniques to add color to your traditional playing or take you beyond bluegrass. Regardless of your favorite styles, the Banjo Summit will expand your expertise and inspire countless new ideas that will raise your playing to new heights.    Faculty include BB Bowness, Wes Corbett, Matt Flinner, Adam Larrabee, Greg Liszt, Jayme Stone, a concert with Jake Blount, and a special guest lecture from the indomitable Jens Kruger.     Visit www.banjosummit.org to enroll and learn more.   *** Use code “Pickyfingers” for a 10% discount ***   Contact the show: pickyfingersbanjopodcast@gmail.com

Episode Notes Support the Mandolins and Beer Podcast at my Patreon page! My guest this week is Matt Flinner. Matt is getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his remarkable recording The View From Here. In honor of that anniversary, he's putting out a transcription book for the album. The book also includes exercises for each tune to help you out with the trickier parts! You can order the book here!  Here is a link to the Punch Brothers recording on a wax cylinder.  Here is a link to the Kids Picks album Matt played on.    Welcome to my newest sponsor Grace Design!! As always, a HUGE THANK YOU to my sponsors! Mandolin Cafe Acoustic Disc Peghead Nation Northfield Mandolins Pava Mandolins  Ellis Mandolins Siminoff Books Straight Up Strings Elderly Instruments Ear Trumpet Labs

My guest this week is the fabulous Charlotte Carrivick. Charlotte's one of my favourite guitarists and we've been chatting about getting this interview done since July, so I'm thrilled we finally managed to find a time to record it. It would be quicker to tell you which instruments Charlotte doesn't play than which she does, but she's probably best known for her guitar and mandolin playing, including her wonderful Flatpick of the Week series on Instagram and YouTube.We talk about the influence David Grier and Matt Flinner had (and have) on her playing, her arrangements of well know (and not so well known) fiddle tunes, the challenges of touring with two children under 12 months of age and, of course, her current project, all-female bluegrass group Midnight Skyracer.Links to stuff mentioned in the episode:Midnight SkyracerCharlotte's Patreon pageCharlotte's YouTube channelCharlotte's InstagramSore Fingers Summer Schools

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On this week’s show, we offer selections from some of the best flatpicking instrumentalists (with one ringer) in acoustic music. We'll hear guitar artistry from Norman Blake, Maybelle Carter, Matt Flinner, Beppe Gambetta, Wayne Henderson, Alison Brown and many more. Plectrum on the six-string … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Episode #20-33: Flatpick Central Host: Tom Druckenmiller Artist/”Song”/CD/Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien / “Tennessee Wagoner” / Be Ready Bos / Shanachie The Carter Family / “You Are My Flower” / Country Music Hall of Fame Series / MCA Don Reno & Red Smiley / “Under the Double Eagle” / Strictly Instrumental / Rural Rhythm Wayne Henderson / “Snowflake Reel” / Rugby Guitar / Flying Fish Tyler Grant & Robin Kessinger / “Garfield's March” / Kanawha County Flatpicking / Grant Central Alison Brown / “One Morning in May” / Stolen Moments / Compass Beppe Gambetta / “Hide and Seek” / Where the Wind Blows-Dove Tia O Vento / Borealis Molly Tuttle / “Sit Back and Watch It Roll” / When You're Ready / Compass Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien / “Flop Eared Mule” / Be Ready Boys / Shanachie The Andrew Collins Trio / “Cello Song” / Tongue & Groove / Self Produced Matt Flinner Trio / “Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump” /Traveling Roots / Compass The Harmonic Tone Revealers / “Half Past Four” / The Harmonic Tone Revealers / Corvus The Kentucky Colonels / “Lonesome Road Blues” / Long Journey Home / Vanguard The Kentucky Colonels / “Beaumont Rag” / Long Journey Home / Vanguard Russ Barenberg / “Little Monk” / When at Last / Compass Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

This week on the Mandolins and Beer podcast, I talk with one of my all time favorite mandolin players, Matt Flinner. I've been a fan of Matt ever since I've picked up the mandolin! His credits include solo cds, a jazzy quartet cd, work with Frank Vignola, and his most recent project the Matt Flinner Trio. He has transcribed and published a few music books, been nominated for a Grammy and has an incredible online learning program! You can find out about all of this an more by visiting Matt's website. Also, be sure to follow Matt on his Facebook and his Instagram. As always a big thanks to my sponsors for this episode, The Mandolin Cafe and Scott Enloe Woodworking! Be sure you check out Scott's incredible work on his Website or on his Facebook page! And finally check out all the songs featured on this week's and all the past week's episodes on my Spotify Playlist

TED Talks bring Ideas Worth Sharing to audiences worldwide, in the legendary live-speaking forums for Technology, Entertainment and Design. In St. Louis, TEDx Gateway Arch proudly features all local voices, in our town's best venues.                   CRASH COURSE is the theme when TEDx brings artists, entertainers and revolutionaries to The Pageant on Thursday, September 12 at 6 p.m. This program will feature TWO eco-logical speakers: Sarah Aman, graphic designer at PGAV, and KDHX's own Jean Ponzi. Plus live music, interviews and performance art. Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer and Sierra Club Conservation Specialist, guest-hosts this special edition of Earthworms, where our longtime host gets to be the guest, and both guests encourage us humans to swerve on the course, as well as we can. Check out the Crash Course program online - and at the show, or when this round of TEDx talks is posted on YouTube. Thanks to Alive! Magazine for a conversation with Jean, with Negativity coming through as a FUNdamental of Earth Life. Music: Inferno Reel, performed live at KDHX by Matt Flinner. THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Guest Host and Engineer for Earthworms. Related Conversations: Legendary St. Louis Activist and TEDx Crash Course presenter Percy Green talks with Hank Thompson on Tangazo! (July 2018)

Blame it on Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring or perhaps the ridiculous virtuosity that is characteristic of so much bluegrass playing. In the past decade, growing numbers of classical musicians have been mixing it up with fiddlers, banjo players and mandolin pluckers. Yo-Yo Ma has worked with bluegrass players in the Goat Rodeo Sessions; mandolin wizard Chris Thile has played his own concerto with several American orchestras and released an album of Bach partitas. The latest group to explore this hybrid is the Jake Schepps Quintet, a string band whose members are steeped in bluegrass spontaneity but whose repertoire – yes, repertoire – is by composers from the modern classical tradition. They include Matt McBane, Marc Mellits, Gyan Riley, and Matt Flinner. Led by Schepps, a Colorado-based banjoist, the group came to WQXR to play three pieces from "Entwined," their debut album. "Most of the instruments in the string band aren't foreign" to classical composers, said Schepps, in an interview with host Terrance McKnight. "Most classical composers have written for violin, guitar, and bass, and a mandolin is tuned like a violin so it's familiar territory." The quintet's set began with Flatiron VII: Planetary Tuners by Mellits, a Chicago-based composer whose works have been performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, among other groups. Schepps has been at the forefront of melding bluegrass with other genres for several years. He previously recorded an album of Béla Bartok's music arranged for a string band, "An Evening In The Village," and says he wants to play the music of Henry Purcell for a future project. "I fell in love with his three and four-part fantasias," he said. "I love Baroque music and Bach. I'm always curious for places that I can take string band instruments into new terrain." Schepps added that it's a "lateral step" to transfer pieces from Purcell's viola da gambas to the five-string banjo. The quintet's next selection is the album's title track, by Matt McBane, a Brooklyn violinist and composer who directs the Carlsbad Music Festival in California and whose music has been played by a number of new-music groups. Flinner, who plays mandolin in the quintet, composed the last selection in the set, called Migrations. He tells McKnight that his challenge "was trying, as a bluegrass musician, to write across that line in a long-form manner. Classical music goes so many different directions these days. One thing that we could use more of is more American roots elements added to that. Bluegrass is a uniquely American art form. It feels like it's getting more respect." Schepps added: "My hope is that a classical audience will come to find something interesting about bluegrass." Listen to the full interview and performances at the top of this page. Jake Schepps Quintet Personnel: Jake Schepps: five-string banjoMatt Flinner: mandolinRyan Drickey: violinJordan Tice: acoustic guitarAndrew Small: double bass Videos: Kim Nowacki; Audio: Irene Trudel; Production: Brian Wise; Interview: Terrance McKnight; Production Assistance: Rebecca Stein

JANIE FRICKE with THE ROYS: Country star Janie has gone from Indiana farm girl to internationally acclaimed recording artist. Fricke dominated the country charts with smash hits such as He's a Heartache, Don't Worry ' Bout Me Baby, and You're Heart's Not In It. She won the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and she was chosen to the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars, nominated for a Grammy Award. Janie has released 23 albums and 36 hit singles. Now, she has moved into bluegrass territory, rearranging some of her best-known music on the album 'Country Side of Bluegrass.' She'll perform on the show with WoodSongs alum and good friends The Roys. MATT FLINNER is widely considered one of the hottest and most creative mandolin players on the acoustic scene. Starting out as a banjo prodigy who was playing bluegrass festivals before he entered his teens, Flinner later took up the mandolin, won the National Banjo Competition in Winfield, KS in 1990, and won the mandolin award there the following year. He has toured and recorded with a wide variety of bluegrass, new acoustic, classical and jazz artists, including Tim O'Brien, Frank Vignola, Steve Martin, Darrell Scott, the Modern Mandolin Quartet, Leftover Salmon, Alison Brown, The Ying Quartet, Tony Trischka, Darol Anger, and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.

JAKE SCHEPPS has made a name for himself as a banjo renaissance man, an artist with not only an adroit touch on his instrument but an intrepid, imaginative vision for contemporary stringband music. Although a student of traditional and progressive bluegrass styles as a player, Schepps has stretched beyond those genres to take his place alongside the Punch Brothers, Matt Flinner and other notables in a field the Colorado-based banjoist likes to call simply "new acoustic music." His venturesome new album, 'An Evening in the Village: The Music of B�la Bart�k,' finds common ground between the piquant beauty of the great Hungarian composer's take on Eastern European folk melodies and the big-sky vibrancy of new American acoustic music. HARPETH RISING is a group of four young classically trained musicians exploring the Americana genre. With a banjo and fiddle, you might think they're traditional bluegrass, but think again: cello and hand drums round out the group, creating a truly new sound. A little bit bluegrass, a little bit folk, a little bit classical and whole lot of original, Harpeth Rising is a band to watch. The band just released their second album, with Grammy-award winning producer Bil VornDick, entitled 'Dead Man's Hand'.

1 - "Dance" da/from "Three-Piece Suite" (Michael Hurd). John Turner, flauta doce/recorder. Manchester Chamber Ensemble. 2 - "Tucto il mundo e fantasia" (Johannes Hesdimois). Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano. Modena Consort. 3 - "Inquietude" de/from "Feuilles d'album, Op. 20" (Henrique Oswald). Maria Inês Guimarães, piano. 4 - "Simply beautiful" (Al Green). Al Green. 5 - Canto do bicudo/ Brazilian birdcall. 6 - "An Evening in the Village" de/from "Hungarian Sketches" (Bartók). Jake Schepps, banjo. Ryan Drickey, violino/violin. Matt Flinner, mandolim. Ross Martin, violão/guitar. Ben Soller, cello. Eric Thorin & Greg Garrison, contrabaixo/bass.