Rich DelGrosso’s performances at clubs and festivals, and the airplay of his recordings, have garnered him seven Blues Music Award nominations. Six of the seven were for Best Instrumentalist-Other for his mandolin work, and another, in 2009, for his recording “Live From Bluesville,” which was nominated Acoustic Album of the Year; a recorded live jam session with BMA nominees and winners Fiona Boyes and Mookie Brill at XM radio’s “B.B.King’s Bluesville,”
His latest release, from Mandolin Blues, Time Slips On By, has already received critical acclaim in the US, UK and Italy.
This writer/teacher/performer, is widely regarded as the leading exponent of mandolin blues. For over thirty years DelGrosso has written articles for Blues Revue, Living Blues, Mandolin Magazine, Frets, and Sing Out!, and has published mandolin and guitar instruction books on for Hal Leonard Pub. He has presented workshops across the Americas and Europe, earning him a Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.
Rich DelGrosso’s performances at clubs and festivals, and the airplay of his recordings, have garnered him seven Blues Music Award nominations. Six of the seven were for Best Instrumentalist-Other for his mandolin work, and another, in 2009, for his recording “Live From Bluesville,” which was nominated Acoustic Album of the Year; a recorded live jam session with BMA nominees and winners Fiona Boyes and Mookie Brill at XM radio’s “B.B.King’s Bluesville,”
His latest release, from Mandolin Blues, Time Slips On By, has already received critical acclaim in the US, UK and Italy.
This writer/teacher/performer, is widely regarded as the leading exponent of mandolin blues. For over thirty years DelGrosso has written articles for Blues Revue, Living Blues, Mandolin Magazine, Frets, and Sing Out!, and has published mandolin and guitar instruction books on for Hal Leonard Pub. He has presented workshops across the Americas and Europe, earning him a Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.
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