Alan Munde

Happy news from the home of semi-retired banjo picker Alan Munde... Alan and his wife Kitty are celebrating the birth of Casey Patrick Alan Rice on May 1 - Alan's first grandchild! Also celebrating, of course, are the new parents, Rachel

We received a note from Joe Carr, Associate Professor of Music at South Plains College in Levelland, TX, with notification that they are again looking for an instructor to serve as five string banjo instructor, the position held for many

Alan Munde has released yet another in his lifelong legacy of banjo instructional materials. This latest, Banjo for the young Beginner (Mel Bay), is designed to take younger banjo students from basic strums to roll-style arrangements of familiar songs like Wildwood

While walking around the trade show floor at IBMA last week, I ran across Alan Munde and stopped to chat for a moment. Here's the video. This one is short, runtime is 48 seconds. http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/munde.flv

Banjo picker Alan Munde has had quite a career in bluegrass music. As a young man, he was a member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys and went on to help found and maintain Country Gazette, one of the most enduring

Alan Munde has made a career out of playing the banjo, something he once joked about in an interview. He described meeting a girlfriend's parents as a young man, and answering their obvious question about what he did for a

More than 60 banjo players will converge in the small town of Cumberland Furance, TN this weekend for the 7th Annual NashCamp Banjo Retreat. Hosted by Sonny Osborne and Bill Evans, this year's camp also features multi-IBMA award winner Tony

With Alan Munde's recent retirement from his teaching position at South Plains College, one might expect him to slow down and relax. It seems slowing down is not in Alan's plan. I'm told Alan is interested in playing more dates, and

John wrote back in January and February about the faculty position opening at South Plains College due to the retirement of banjo teacher Alan Munde. I received a call the other day from Cary Banks the Creative Music Department head,

We got a note from Joe Carr, Assistant Professor of Music in the Bluegrass Music program at South Plains College in Levelland, TX. He was following up on our post last month about the faculty position coming open when Alan