Pete’s cover concept and Greg Carr and Sarah Holman’s masterful execution took top honors for the Graphic Design – Recorded Project Award at IBMA’s annual convention in Nashville on September 30, 2008. The Flexigrass “What The” cover with its layered flying-saucer/banjo design turned heads and set the tone for the CD’s adventurous music. … Read More
Two essays by Pete are part of the new book Parenting Beyond Belief, edited by Dale McGowan, on Amacom Books. These writings, concerning secular parenting, are Pete?s first on non-musical topics to be published by a major publisher. Articles include Parenting in a Secular/Religious Marriage and Building the Secular Community – However Slowly. Other contributing authors include Richard Dawkins, Julia Sweeney, Penn Jillette and Margaret Downey. … Read More
The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society has inducted Joan Wernick along with four other Coloradoans into the Colorado Bluegrass Hall of Honor. The five chosen for their longtime and significant impact on bluegrass music in Colorado also includes Mike Dow, Craig Ferguson, Dave Patton, and Steve Szymanski. … Read More
Flexigrass -The Live Five Welcomes New Members Greg Harris – Vibes The new vibes man is Greg Harris, a Colorado native with a Masters in Music, leader of a jazz quintet and recent sojourner in Africa where he studied and collected … Read More
Louise Scruggs’ life can be described as one of dedication. It’s hard to imagine a woman more devoted to her husband, and her family. In show business, tight families are the exception, not the rule, and Louise showed the kind of day-in day-out loyalty to her man and her family that never lapsed for well over 50 years in the fray.… Read More
He was the lead singer for the Greenbriar Boys, the first nationally significant band to come out of the Northeast. As such, he was a pioneer and a leader for us in the bluegrass generation behind him. I watched him … Read More
I was about 15 or 16 when I first heard “The Hit Parade of Love”, performed by some folks I knew in NY City. They had a cool harmony on it, and it seemed like a pretty upbeat song, with snappy lyrics and good banjo picking. Before long I picked up my first Jimmy Martin record (his second of two at the time), and connected with one of the greatest musical forces bluegrass has ever known.… Read More
Pete and Joan Wernick woke up Feb. 27 to hear that a song they recorded more than 25 years ago was being played on Mars. NASA announced that on Feb. 27, the Mars Spirit Rover was awakened by the song “Big Rock in the Road” to start up and make its final approach to an imposing rock dubbed “Humphrey.”… Read More
Pete named TOP LOCAL INSTRUMENTALIST by Denver’s Rocky Mountain News in their Top of the Rocky Awards.… Read More
The late, great Frank Edmonson, Hot Rize’s fifth member as sound engineer and road manager, has been memorialized with a sound engineering scholarship in his name. The Frank Edmonson Scholarship in Sound Engineering has been set up at Metro State College of Denver to support students with interest and talent in Sound Engineering.… Read More