Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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Where to start? Grammy award-winner John Reischman is, quite simply, one of the world’s greatest mandolin players. He got his start in the early 1980s in the San Francisco Bay area, most notably with the legendary Tony Rice Unit, famed for their virtuosity and for incorporating exciting jazz influences into bluegrass. A decade later Reischman moved to Vancouver and by 1999 formed the Jaybirds, a group of remarkable acoustic musicians from the Pacific Northwest who instinctively found the sweet spot between bluegrass and Appalachian-style old-time music. Over the years the Jaybirds have recorded a half-dozen wonderful records, and the critics have been wowed. Mandolin Café’s Scott Tichenor wrote: “Vintage and Unique has everything one could ask for in a great bluegrass recording.... more...