Our Mentors
The thing about old time music is that it is all about community --
finding it, being part of it, passing it along. These are the folks who
guided the original six of us. Without them we would not have gone beyond beginning banjo
players stuggling to figure out the tab to June Apple and remember to all
start the B part at the same time. With gifts of friendship and
inspiration they shared with us what they had previously discovered from
their own mentors. Brooke and Diane gave us countless banjo lessons.
Listening to them play and sing was what inspired us to work hard. Jill
made it her mission to get us off of tab as well as instigated our first
real jam complete with a fiddler. Alan was that fiddler and he spent all
day guiding us through tune after lovely tune, thus gently seeding the
idea that "Oh wow! It's not just about banjos." Andrea sealed our
jamming fates when she sent us her student Marsha, our first very own
FOB fiddler. Howard, Hubie and Jim came to a jam and then kept on
coming. They kept us on track, introduced us to the established old time
community, showed us tunes and made us sound better then our parts. We
feel continuously lucky to know these folks.
 Brooke Parkhurst |
 Howard Jones |
 Alan Jabbour |
 Jim Glaser |
 Andrea Hoag |
 Hubie King |
 Diane Jones |
 Jill Lagerstrom |