Lee Bidgood
March 11, 2025 | 7 pm @ Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Lee Bidgood speaks at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum Performance Theatre, Bristol, Virginia, March 11 at 7 p.m. The talk si also livestreamed on Radio Bristol's YouTube Channel.
Musical traditions based on groups of stringed instruments are common around the world – how are these bands different and similar to each other, and how do they help us all connect to each other and the environments where we find ourselves? With this Speaker Sessions presentation, Bidgood will introduce a global range of string band sounds and stories, with media and live examples.
Bidgood’s research on Czech bluegrass has been supported by two Fulbright grants and inspired the documentary film "BanjoRomantika"(2015) as well as the book "Czech Bluegrass: Notes From the Heart of Europe" (2017).An early member of the Steep Canyon Rangers and Big Fat Gap, Bidgood plays bluegrass, old-timeand early musics on fiddle, mandolin, violaand viola da gamba.As professor in East Tennessee State University’s Department of Appalachian Studies, he teaches courses in ethnomusicology and Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies, leads a mandolin orchestra and Global String Band, and directs the Institute for Appalachian Music and Culture.