Monroe-style Mandolin Camp in Kentucky, 12-14 Sept.

You can now register for the International Bluegrass Music Museum's 2008 Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp. The third edition of this successful event, held annually around the anniversary of Bill Monroe's birth (he would have been 97 on September 13), will be on 12-14 September 2008. Most events will be at the Museum itself by the side of the Ohio river in Owensboro, KY, but there will also be an outing to pick at Bill Monroe's birthplace, Rosine, KY.

The 2008 Faculty includes mandolinists Richie Brown, Mike Compton, Bobby Osborne, Frank Wakefield, and Butch Waller - Butch can be heard in Ireland in July when he appears at the 18th Athy Bluegrass Festival as leader of High Country. Mike Compton was here at last year's Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival with the Nashville Bluegrass Band.

Full details are on the IBMM's Mandolin Camp page.