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A Word From The Chairman
Hello
Bluegrass Family!
Here’s
hoping this article finds you well. We are continuing to monitor the COVID
situation and will be scheduling shows as we are able to host them. We hope
to start by hosting them on a bi-monthly basis.
The
GOBMS exists to preserve and promote Bluegrass Music, chiefly in Oklahoma and
beyond as well. We will continue to do so as long as we can. The newsletter
will still go out to our membership and will be the primary source for GOBMS
information, as well as our website at www.gobms.org and on
Facebook. We look forward to continuing to see you at our shows.
The GOBMS is merely one organization among several. But even if we are not
able to provide opportunities, we know Bluegrass fans and performers such as
you are really the ones who keep it going. We continue to see many of our own
folks organizing get-togethers and jams. The tradition lives on! Keep it
going! As times goes on, we will be evaluating our efforts, possibly devising
new methods to promote Bluegrass. Feel free to submit ideas. If you have a
Bluegrass event to promote, let us know about it. Continue your preventative
efforts to slow the spread of the virus. Thank you for your continued
support. Stay tuned and we will do our best to keep you updated. You can find
us at GOBMS.org and also on Facebook. Keep pickin’
and stay healthy. Thank you,
Nathan Sanders
Chairman Greater Oklahoma Bluegrass Music Society
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GOBMS celebrates
bringing you bluegrass music to the Central Oklahoma area since 1978. |
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Bill
Monroe William Smith Monroe was
born on September 13, 1911, on a farm in Jerusalem Ridge, just outside Rosine, Kentucky. His mother played accordion, fiddle,
and harmonica, while his siblings played guitar and fiddle. After his father
died when Bill was 16, he moved in with his uncle Pendleton Vandiver (later
immortalized in the classic song "Uncle Pen"), who taught Bill to
play guitar, mandolin, and fiddle. Perhaps because no one else in the family
played it, Bill concentrated on mastering the mandolin. Bill joined with his
brothers Charlie, who played guitar, and Birch, who played fiddle, to play on
radio broadcasts. By 1930, the Monroe brothers had found success with
"Kentucky Waltz," "Footprints in the Snow," and
"Blue Grass Ramble." In the 1940s, Bill formed a new group called
"Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys" (the bluegrass came from his
home state of Kentucky). That started a new musical genre that has spread
worldwide.
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For information about
GOBMS, contact Ronna Monse at
(405) 317-2618 or
(405) 226-9191 or via e-mail at rbass1151@gmail.com |
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