Mike Compton

‰ÛÏA certified mandolin icon‰Û (Mandolin Magazine), ‰ÛÏA new bluegrass instrumental hero‰Û (New York Times), Grammy Award winning instrumentalist Mike Compton, perhaps best known as the featured mandolin player on ‰ÛÏOh, Brother Where Art Thou‰Û, is one of the modern masters of bluegrass mandolin (Sam Bush says ‰ÛÏnobody plays Monroe better than Compton‰Û) and one of the most recognizable and respected mandolin voices in the world today. A founding member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band, a sideman with John Hartford Stringband, a studio-recording artist on over 110 albums, a Grammy & IBMA award winning musician, Compton is as passionate and advocate for the mandolin as you‰Ûªre ever likely to find.