Bruce Graybill & Friends play Minor Swing Stage 7 Winfield Vol. 3 of 5

Minor Swing from a Five-volume video set shot 9/14/07 11:30 PM at Stage 7 in the Pecan Grove at the Walnut Valley Festival. Walk-on all acoustic improvisational set by Two-Time National Mandolin Champion Bruce Graybill with Scott Schmidt (2002 National Mandolin Champion), James McKinney (1982 National Banjo Champion), John Lowell (of Weber fine acoustic Instruments), and Marvin Gruenbaum (of Kansas City Symphony and Spontaneous Combustion). Several of these musicians met and played together for the first time (for about 30 minutes) a few hours before they met to do this set. Marvin and James walked on during the set after being delivered by security (from the campground Radio area where they were performing, so they had not even met the other players (except Bruce). Tunes and arrangements were decided on the fly while on stage yielding a truly improvisational music session. Video shot Mike Whalen who kindly prepared it for our use.

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[PickyHitchhiker]

ooooh, I'm so glad I found this! I was there! it was soooo cool!

[StinkOnIt]

The other tunes from that set are posted to youtube as well, so in 5 videos you pretty much can see the whole set. Glad you were there and enjoyed it; it was a blast playing for you guys. Next year we will introduce all the people playing to each other before the set and maybe even practice a little instead f doing the tunes cold as we did here :)

Bruce

[TBSMandolin]

Bruce man. You kill. Your just... THE BEST!

[BanjoCrazyDude]

Dude I been watchin these videos and you are pickin your ass off! When are you gonna get down here to Atlanta?