Tag: Monroe Crossing
Silver Dollar City adds Bluegrass Cruises
Silver Dollar City’s Bluegrass & BBQ festival has added a new wrinkle for 2013. The annual mega-fest which runs continuously from May 9-27 in Branson, MO, will feature bluegrass lake cruises on their paddlewheel showboat, Branson Belle, May 24-26. Monroe Crossing will perform May 24, Larry [...]
More on Matt Thompson’s mandolin
On Monday we posted a sad story with a happy ending. It was the story of Matt Thompson of Monroe Crossing whose mandolin was stolen from his hotel room, only to be recovered and returned to him later that evening by a Good Samaritan. The [...]
Stolen instrument alert: LaPlant mandolin *updated – found *
Matt Thompson, mandolinist with Monroe Crossing, had a pair of cherished instruments stolen yesterday afternoon. His 2003 F-5 LaPlant mandolin and an unlabeled fiddle were taken from his hotel room in Glendale, AZ. The mandolin carries serial number 125 and has a dark brown finish. Matt [...]
Monroe Crossing – The Road Has No End
Among the pre-Christmas releases is The Road Has No End (MC 1212), the latest album from Minnesota-based quintet Monroe Crossing. It’s their thirteenth CD – equating to one album per year since their formation in 2000. Not wanting to push their luck too far, The [...]
The Road Has No End from Monroe Crossing
Minnesota’s Monroe Crossing has a new album, The Road Has No End, due in December. There are no audio samples up yet online, but the band has posted a live video they recorded for MN Original, a weekly program produced by Minnesota Public Television Association that [...]
David Robinson to Monroe Crossing
David Robinson is set to become the new banjo player with Monroe Crossing, among the most popular and well-traveled bluegrass bands in the mid-West. He takes up the mantle from Benji Flaming, who recently announced his intention to move on and pursue other musical horizons. Robinson [...]
Monroe Crossing seeks banjo player
Monroe Crossing has announced that their banjo player for the past five years, Benji Flaming, is to leave to pursue alternative artistic work. The band is currently engaged in an international search for Flaming’s replacement, and is aware of some great prospects already… “…but with [...]
Monroe Crossing Live
Minnesota’s Monroe Crossing has released a live concert DVD, filmed in February of this year at the Chautauqua Fine Arts Theater in Mahtomedi, MN. Monroe Crossing Live contains 16 songs, primarily band originals, along with crowd favorites like Dueling Banjos, Orange Blossom Special and Man [...]
The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
The Holy Mass has been the inspiration for some of the most beautiful music ever written. Celebrated composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Puccini have written Masses that are still performed to this day. In the modern era Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein and Dave [...]
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