 THE NEW CD Right on Track IS CROSS-SECTION OF OLD SCHOOL BLUEGRASS,COUNTRY CLASSICS AND ORIGINAL INSTRUMENTALS PEFORMED IN BLUEGRASS STYLEBill Monroe:"...the Dixie Flyers play good bluegrass, they play it the right way." Or Order Via Email Since 1974, the DIXIE FLYERS have been entertaining audiences coast to coast in Canada and the U.S with their original Canadian bluegrass What can be said about a band that has been playing since 1974? When the Flyers started, Trudeau was prime minister. Nixon was president. The Vietnam war was still going. Bill Monroe was 63. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was just being born. Chinatown was in all the theatres. Happy Days was in its first season. So... a brand new recording project Right on Track a reflection of what they have been doing in the last five years. Same old same old? Not with the Flyers! The only predictable thing about the Dixie Flyers is that they are unpredictable. Like their heroes Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, always looking for something fresh and different. Putting their spin on the music that they love... | |
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The SINGERS and the PLAYERS
BERT BAUMBACH-guitar and vocals |
| Bert Baumbach and Ken Palmer met in a record store in London, Ontario, in March of 1974. Bert was looking a new bluegrass artist named Larry Sparks...a friendship was born. Since that day, the Dixie Flyers have accomplished many things that were thought impossible for a Canadian Bluegrass band. Nine recordings on Boot, Stony Plain and their own Flat-Top labels. Their own weekly radio show for BX-93 (CJBX-Fm) London - Live From the Wellington, for 5 years. A syndicated television series Bluegrass Express (guests included the Country Gentlemen, Tony Rice, Graham Townsend). Traveling and touring Canada in their own custom fitted highway coach. Running their own Bluegrass festival Back 40 in Woodstock, Ontario. Their groundbreaking appearance at Bean Blossom on the invitation of Bill Monroe. Many appearances on national radio and television... CBC Radio's Morningside with Peter Gzsowski always a favourite. Being included in Canadian Encyclopedia of Music in Canada and producing a consistent high quality show with top notched players and singers. The Flyers' alumni reads like a who's who of Canadian music scene: Bert Baumbach (guitar) Canadian Bluegrass Entertainer of the Year, and Ken Palmer (mandolin), former CBC Radio host of The Country Music Perspective. Gordon Stobbe, host and fiddle guru of ATV"s Up Home Tonight Peter Robertson, 7-time Juno winner John P. Allen of Prairie Oyster (violin). David Zdriluk, Brian Abbey, Luke Maynard and Rick Thompson (bass). Canadian banjo legend Denis Lepage, David Jack, two time Grammy nominee David Talbot of Grascals/Dolly Parton fame, former Ontario banjo champion, the late Walter Maynard and Paul Hurdle (banjo). Allan Widmeyer (the Old Houndog) and Darin Parise(dobro) plus legendary songwriter/Juno winner Willie P. Bennett and Mike Ethelston (harmonica). But all the Flyers' alumni will tell you... it was a team effort and always a lot of laughs. | |