MONTHLY CNYBA MEETING/JAMS GOING STRONG!

The next regular meeting will be February 12, 2012
at Park Rose Estates, Off Taft Road in Liverpool

Jamming begins at 10 am
Board meeting at 1 pm, Business meeting at 2 pm

Go here for directions

(Regular meetings are held every 2nd Sunday - September to May (except December))

If you're looking for a good place to meet musicians who share your love of bluegrass music - or to learn some new or old songs -
this is the place!


 

Hal Casey

We regret to inform you of the death of a Central New York fiddle legend, Hal Casey, Sr. Hal played the Grand Ole Opry. He won the NYS fiddle championship six times, as well as the Canadian International Championship, and the southeastern US Championship. He was a member of the North American Fiddlers' Hall of Fame. and played in many groups, most recently, Swing This!, with guitarist Mark Hoffmann.

Hal began fiddling at the age of 8 in 1936, playing Irish jigs and square dances in a duo with his mandolin playing brother for the Hibernians in Syracuse's West End. The skill he developed on the instrument as a young man won him a scholarship to the prestigious Eastman School of Music but Hal passed it up for a chance to join a touring band. During the 1950's, he worked on the Louisiana Hayride, where he backed up Elvis and Johnny Cash, and later in Nashville as a staff musician on the Grand Ole Opry. Over the years, he performed with such luminaries as George Morgan, Jack Greene , Bill Monroe, Floyd Tillman, Vassar Clements, and Billy Walker. He later toured with Ernest Tubb and, more recently, the Winters Brothers. In the late 1950s Hal returned to Syracuse for good. For several years he played locally with Hal Casey & North Country. Over the past decade, Hal began to sit in with various bands in Syracuse, including the Bluegrass Band, Diamond Someday. He enjoyed playing any genre of music equally well!!

His obituary and service dates/times can be found here.



Prayer Request for Joy Crouch

I go into Upstate for a defibrillator implant Tuesday, January 31. I would appreciate some prayers....
Send Joy a card at 3105 Co. Rt. 45, Fulton, NY 13069



February 2012 Newsletter

January 2012 Newsletter

December 2011 Newsletter

Click on News (at the top of this page) for previous editions of the newsletter


Bluegrass on the Tube
The Internet's Bluegrass Video Search Engine

From a member of the South East Bluegrass Association, located in Atlanta, GA, comes a free website, designed to promote bluegrass music among bluegrass fans. The website currently has over 400 videos in the library, representing a wide variety of artists and styles of bluegrass.  New videos are added weekly.  Check it out at: www.bluegrassonthetube.com 


Quick Links:

CNYBA Officers and Chairpersons Contact Information

Constitution/Bylaws



 

CNYBA
PO Box 491
Baldwinsville, NY 13027
www.cnyba.com
Copyright 2002
All Rights Reserved.
 
NEWS / CALENDAR / CLASSIFIEDS / SCRAPBOOK / RADIO / FESTIVALS / MUSICIANS / LOCAL JAMS / OFFICERS / CONSTITUTION / JOIN / LINKS