Jan/Feb/Mar 2021 Winter Express Issue
Vol. 41 No. 1 INSIDE THIS ISSUE! Jan. Feb. Mar. Taborgrass: Passing e Torch, Helen Hakanson: Remembering A 2021 Musical LIfe and more... $500 Oregon Bluegrass Association Oregon Bluegrass Association www.oregonbluegrass.org By Linda Leavitt In March of 2020, the pandemic hit, and in September, two long-time Taborgrass instructors, mandolinist Kaden Hurst and guitarist Patrick Connell took over the program. ey are adamant about doing all they can to keep the spirit of Taborgrass alive. At this point, they teach weekly Taborgrass lessons and workshops via Zoom. ey plan to resume the Taborgrass open mic online, too. In the future, classes will meet in person, once that becomes feasible. et me introduce you to Kaden Kaden has played with RockyGrass (known as Pat), e Hollerbodies, and Hurst and Patrick Connell, the 2019 Band Competition winners Never Julie & the WayVes. Lnew leaders of Taborgrass. In 2018, Patrick As a mandolinist met Kaden at born in the ‘90s, Taborgrass, and Kaden was hugely started meeting inuenced by to pick. Kaden Nickel Creek. became a regular Kaden says that at Patrick’s Sunday band shied Laurelirst his attention to Bluegrass Brunch bluegrass. Kaden jam. According was also pulled to Patrick, “One closer to “capital B Sunday, Joe bluegrass” by Tony Suskind came to Rice, most notably the Laurelirst by “Church Street jam and brought Blues,” and by Brian Alley with Rice’s duet album him. We ended with Ricky Skaggs, Kaden Hurst and Patrick Connell up with this little “Skaggs and Rice.” group called e Kaden’s third major Come Down, Julie and the WayVes, Portland Radio Ponies.
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