The 1965 Roanoke Bluegrass Festival sealed his fate. In those dark days before bluegrass music journals, event information was scarce. Bush learned of the festival in the folk magazine Sing Out! “I realized that's where all the great .... NGR was soon influencing younger musicians, among them Dayton, Ohio , fiddler and mandolinist David Harvey, now leading Gibson's mandolin division. “I went to Bean Blossom and they were there, jamming in the barn all night and it amazed ...

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