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Gene Lowinger

  • On This Day #44 – Fincastle Bluegrass Festival

    September 3, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    On This Day … Starting on Friday, September 3, 1965, the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival, in Fincastle, Virginia, took place. “Wow, hard to believe it's been fifty years ago ...  I was there for both of Carlton's first multi-day festival in 1965

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  • I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky #41

    November 10, 2010 | by Richard Thompson

    From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, we will, each day, celebrate the life of Bill Monroe by sharing information about him and those people who are associated with his life and music career. This information

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  • Gene Lowinger photo gallery online

    December 14, 2009 | by Richard Thompson

    In September we drew attention to the excellent new book, I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, written and illustrated by Gene Lowinger and published by the University of Illinois Press. In the book, Lowinger recounts his life in

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  • Book review – I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir

    September 21, 2009 | by Richard Thompson

    I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, by Gene Lowinger Gene Lowinger, a New Jersey boy by birth, was the first northerner to play the fiddle for Bill Monroe. He first played with Monroe in 1964, filling in on shows

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  • Yet another forthcoming book

    August 18, 2009 | by Richard Thompson

    A bit of research has revealed a book about bluegrass music that we missed from our recent bulletin. I Hear a Voice Calling - A Bluegrass Memoir is Gene Lowinger's photo journal that captures Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys

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