featured in Living Blues, Mandolin World News, and Frets magazines. Heprepared articles on Yank Rachell and Johnny Young for MandoZine, and wrote a mandolin method book for Hal Leonard. This book was revised in the fall of 2004 with the addition of a songbook titled “Easy Mandolin Songbook.” His latest book, "Mandolin Blues: from memphis to Maxwell Street" will be on the shelves in the fall of 2005. For his work with Augusta he received the "Keeping the Blues Alive" award (KBA) in 1989 from the Blues ich DelGrosso is a specialist in Foundation in Memphis, TN. blues mandolin, with an emphasis oRn t he st yles of Yank Rachel, Howard He has recorded with Uncle Jesse Armstrong and Johnny Young. A truly White in Detroit and Doug MacLeod great player and teacher, he has and Lynwood Slim in Los Angeles. taught music for over 25 years. DelGrosso has performed in venues as For 10 years he coordinated the far west as the Blue Cafe in Long Handy Award–winning Augusta Beach, CA, in the Mid-West at Rosa’s in Heritage Arts Workshop: Bluesweek in Chicago, The Soup Kitchen Saloon in Elkins, West Virginia, teaching classes Detroit and east to Passim’s in Boston. in bottleneck slide, mandolin, and Festivals dates have ranged from the blues band labs. He has also taught at Miss. Valley Blues Fest, Davenport the Port Townsend Country Blues Iowa, the Border Festival, El Paso, Workshop and served on the faculty Texas, the Sound Advice Blues Fest in of the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop Fort Lauderdale and the Sanremo and the California Coast Music Camp. Blues, Sanremo, Italy. He has been a writer for Blues Revue He has performed with Carrie Bell, magazine since 1991, and an associate John Cephas, Maureen DelGrosso, editor since 1996. His monthly column, Honeyboy Edwards, Howard "Take It On Home Now," features Armstrong, Kirk Fletcher, Doug written music in each issue, MacLeod, Janiva Magness, Bob accompanied by RealAudio sound files Margolin, Pinetop Perkins, Anna on the Blues Revue Web site. He also Popovic, Kid Ramos, Lynwood Slim, has a regular column in Mandolin Hubert Sumlin and Phil Wiggins, to Magazine, and his writing has been name a few..