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Name: Greg Cahill
Group: The Special Consensus
Date: Friday March 20th, 2009
Time: 1:00pm EDT
Website: www.specialc.com
Interviewer: Gracie Muldoon
Description:
Chicago born and bred, Greg Cahill has been playing bluegrass banjo since the early 1970s and formed The Special Consensus in 1975. Greg has appeared on all of The Special Consensus recordings (14 to date) and has released three solo recordings: Lone Star (1980) with guests Jethro Burns and Byron Berline, Blue Skies (1992) with mandolin virtuoso Don Stiernberg, and Night Skies (1998) with Don and guests Sam Bush, Glen Duncan and Tom Boyd. He has appeared on numerous national television and radio commercials as well as on numerous recordings by other artists. Greg has also recorded with the Chow Dogs (Slavek Hanzlik, Dallas Wayne and Ollie O’Shea) and periodically tours European countries with that band. He teaches bluegrass banjo at Chicago music schools The Old Town School of Folk Music and World Music Company, conducts workshops at festivals and music camps nationally and internationally and has released four banjo instructional videos/DVDs. Greg created and initiated the Traditional American Music (TAM) Program for in-school presentations in 1984 and continues to bring that program to students of all ages nationally and internationally. In 2006, Greg was elected Board Chairperson/President of the Nashville, Tennessee-based International Bluegrass Music Association. |
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